Marom website

[lethargic_man]

The website I've been working on for Marom for the last few months is about to go live. Actually, that's a lie; it's already live; it's just not advertised yet. I could use some alpha testers, so if people want to take a look at it and let me know if there's anything which doesn't render properly on their browser, or anything else (within limited reason; I'm not doing a large-scale reworking now!) they think needs changing, feedback would be welcome.

Comments

[darcydodo]

Seems fine! I checked it in Netscape 6.2 (since I figured everyone would be using Firefox...). Later, if I remember, I'll look at it on a much smaller screen.

I was very disconcerted the first time the distances were different! But then I realized it was intentional. :)

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Seems fine! I checked it in Netscape 6.2

Good. I've checked it on Firefox 1.5 on Windows and Linux, Mozilla 1.7.6 on Linux, IE 6 on Windows, and Safari on Mac OS. You wouldn't believe how difficult it is to get rounded corners to work on all browsers. (And there's a whole load of layout stuff that should be done with CSS, but isn't properly supported on all browsers, so I did the old, 1990s way instead.)

Bah, my father's just reported the background comes out white on Netscape 4.7 (but it does work on Opera).

(since I figured everyone would be using Firefox...). Later, if I remember, I'll look at it on a much smaller screen.

I was very disconcerted the first time the distances were different! But then I realized it was intentional. :)

That wacky Dr Grant; what will he think of next? ;^)

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Seems to be displaying okay to me. In Firefox.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Fine here in a not-quite up to date version of firefox on Windows.

Apart from bits of it being in some weird funny language, :-P, it all seemed to render and work fine. One slight thing: maybe make the default page something other than blank, but that was the only thing really.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Yellow on blue - not overly readable on the (public access PC) I am using at the moment. Particularly not in large (18pt?) Sans serif font. The red of the used links blends into the brightness of the blue which makes them hard to read.

The header part takes up a third of my screen, which is too much for a logo and a couple of links. On the blog, 1/3 of the text area is taken up by links, squeezing the text into a very small area - in a rather large font, which means a lot of scrolling and little opportunity to grasp the contents.

You've got two different contact options in two different sections - snailmail/phone/e-mail on the contacts page, a webform only on the 'on campus' section.

Lastly - and that is not your fault - my mind parses 'm' as 'metres,' which made the distances fairly odd. ;-)

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Yellow on blue - not overly readable on the (public access PC) I am using at the moment. Particularly not in large (18pt?) Sans serif font.

I'm a bit constrained by the design scheme of making the thing look like a road sign, to match the logo. For some reason it comes across as a lot more readable under Linux than Windows—the font is anti-aliased in the former case. For this reason I'm going to change the session notes in the "on-campus" section to be black on white.

The red of the used links blends into the brightness of the blue which makes them hard to read.

Yes; I should change that.

The header part takes up a third of my screen, which is too much for a logo and a couple of links.

You must have a pretty small screen. Just flipping through windows open on my browser atm, it's comparable to that of the header of my ISP's webmail page, and on my flist (http://lethargic-man.livejournal.com/friends) page (though it's way larger than the BBC News header, or Java API documentation, or this page). <checks Amazon> That's pretty comparable too.

On the blog, 1/3 of the text area is taken up by links, squeezing the text into a very small area - in a rather large font, which means a lot of scrolling and little opportunity to grasp the contents.

I should probably reduce the size and font size of the links column—though once again, it's comparable to that on such blogs on my flist as balashon (http://balashon.blogspot.com/2006/06/admiral.html) and Tomorrow Elephant (http://tomorrowelephant.net/) .

You've got two different contact options in two different sections - snailmail/phone/e-mail on the contacts page, a webform only on the 'on campus' section.

As editorially requested.

Thanks for the feedback!

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

This is a nice 17' LCD I'm using at the moment, although I have no control over its settings, but the eyeballing is pretty acurate, I measured it.

Unfortunately, I don't have the opportunity right now to look at the source and test it out - however, as a datapoint of 'does it work with default settings' I thought it might interest you.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

I wrote:

For some reason it comes across as a lot more readable under Linux than Windows—the font is anti-aliased in the former case.

Oh, and if you can figure out how to get it to look better on Windows, please let me know.

[snjstar.livejournal.com]

Looks good to me :-)

great!

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

Great web site. I followed all links. I would leave it like that. Are you also responsible for updating new events? I like the photos.