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mathetos:
I'd love to hear any and all constructive criticism on my new WB design:
EDIT: http://dz4.dailyrazor.com/~mathetos/wb/
Now "live" at http://www.buesingen.nazarener.de
The majority of my content is not there, but there's two things I'd like to show off:
1) CSS MENU Rollover. Made possible by
* JellyCan's show_menu2
http://code.jellycan.com/show_menu2/ : and
* Eric Meyer's Pure CSS Popups
http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html :
My only problem with this is that I've had to use page_id as a class name in order to get each individual link to be unique. This means that if someone else took my design "as is" it wouldn't work because they would most likely have different page_id numbers.
Does anyone have a suggestion to improve this method?
2) Integrated Google Calendar. I am also no programmer and really need a very handy, useful calendar. The best I've seen out there is Google calendar. It integrates really smoothly into any html page:
7. Sept. edit: I recently took the Google Calendar off the site, but I still think it is a much more aesthetic and usable calendar than what is currently available with WB or otherwise.
The only draw-back is that all the events have to be created in the Google Calendar site, which means it's not integrated into the WB admin site. But other than that I think it's great.
Again, any suggestions questions comments, etc. on the design and the above items would be really appreciated.
~mathetos~
kweitzel:
there are a couple of calendar modules available for WB ... have you tried them?
the design is quite good ... i think i wold just try to make the footer image with an "fade in" effect like you did the fade out in the top area ... it would sort of "conclude" the whole GFX theme.
cheers
Klaus
mathetos:
Klaus, thanks for your comments.
1) I thought I had seen all the WB Calendar modules out there, but your question made me look again and I was pleasantly surprised by keijok.kapsi.fi's Event calendar. It has a nice look and seems well integrated. I'm in the process now of installing it. I still really like the look and feel of google, but for beginning users having an integrated calendar makes much more sense.
2) The footer image does actually "fade in" but much more quickly than the top area. I'll experiment with it some more.
What about the menu? Or is that type of menu totally old news? Anyone else?
doc:
Hi Mathetos,
just had a look on your webpage. I like your design - well done.
On the markup side there are some errors.
You have specified the Doctype XHTML 1.0 Strict. Checking the markup with
http://validator.w3.org showed that your side is not valid.
You have some doubled <head> tags, some tags are not closed properly according XHTML 1.0. Not pretty sure how the side looks like with different browser.
You can check this using http://browserchecks.org.
Keep on baking.
Best regards
Christian
mathetos:
Thanks Christian,
True, hadn't gotten all that far on total validation.
Unfortunately, your browserchecks link is a 404. At least today it is. If you have any other links like that I'd love to test-drive them.
I'll be working on validation for the next weeks... :-P
~mathetos~
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