Naturopath Website

[melissa]

Hi everyone,

I've just made another WB website - http://www.wendywilliams.com.au/ - for a naturopath.

Another donation coming soon, guys. Thanks for a great product. My customer was surprised how easy it was to use (not really having seen web development since the days of HTML.)

This one's a lot more simple and clean than the last.

Melissa.

[kweitzel]

yeah .. nice site ... but I would make the fontsize a bit bigger, on my 1024 by 768 resolution it is really straining my eyes to read the text ... (ok ... it is on a vintage 15" screen  )

cheers

Klaus

[melissa]

I had a bit of a problem before when I was sorting out some IE/Firefox woes. Could you check again and see if it's still the same? I'm using fixed px sizes (yeah, yeah, I know, should use ems), but the minimum one is 12px.

Melissa.

[Vincent]

Well done, Melissa! Looks like the design fits very well to the business she's in. Congratulations.

Vincent

[jschor]

Very nice and clean. And fits the business indeed. No problems with the size of the font 
I am not sure about the menu falling over the left top image. Makes it look a bit "tight".
Maybe the menu (and the start of the pages) a little bit lower or align it right and a bit smaller.  For the rest very well done.

[melissa]

Thanks for your feedback! I had been wondering about whether that background worked or not. I've worked on the template for two days now (all because I wanted it to look exactly the same in Firefox and IE, and it still doesn't, but close enough ). I need to give it a rest now and stop fiddling.

The other thing I'm wondering is whether I overdid the drop shadow. Did it look better without the drop shadow?

[jschor]

With the dropshadow, although it could be a bit lighter (more transparent) so it is not so hard. But maybe this is a personal taste. I'm still thinking about the menu. I like the hover rollover picture change but i think maybe it does not need a background color. Maybe the menu in bold and in the color of the background with color change when hovered. And free from the background image. Just a thought.............. Not so important because it looks nice as it is.

[melissa]

On my laptop, IE is doing something strange with the hover and the image change (on the menu). It's like there's a delay in changing the image.

I checked on the listamatic example http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/vertical11.htm and they have the same thing happening. I wish I'd noticed before I'd created it, because I'm in love with it now! Web design is a very personal thing, isn't it?

I come from a programmer background rather than graphic design, so I really appreciate the help I get in the showcase part of the forum. Thanks for the little nudge about the shadow, jschor. I've fixed it up now. I've left the leaf that's underneath the menu for now because I'm a bit tired of fiddling with cranberries, and selection tools in GIMP.

[melissa]

I've updated my CSS fonts to all use ems now instead of pxs, and it wasn't as bad as I was expecting.

I'm still having one or two layout issues with my left nav and right content. I'd like to get the content to fill up the rest of the space in the page container left by the nav, but only seem to be able to do it using a fixed width div on the right as well.

I guess I have to do some more reading about margins and padding. Do these function the same in IE and Firefox etc or not? I've had some weird cases where Firefox merges margins and IE doesn't...

Melissa.

[kweitzel]

I definatly improved (especially the font-size), great. One additional suggestion, When I went trough the page again, at no point (with my 1024 by 768 resolution) the content left the screen. My suggestion will need a bit of time for research, especialy what kind of screenresolution the customers use (!). Why don't you make the hight of the whole template fixed?

Another thing I saw (by chance): there is a little light green border abround the background (maybe a 10 to 15 px offset).

cheers

Klaus

[melissa]

Wow Klaus. You have excellent eyesight! I hadn't spotted that before (the light green border). Maybe I'll have to change that to transparent. It's actually not quite the edge of the background. Bizarre, isn't it? It's "filled" with the same colour, but GIMP has done something strange exporting it to GIF. Can you tell me if you are just seeing it on the top image (the banner)? I can't see it on the middle or bottom images.

Aargh.

About the other part, the FAQs are actually quite long news posts that go for quite a scroll, so fixed height would be scary.

[kweitzel]

now it's gone ... you maybe worked with layers and didn't flatten the image before exporting (it might be ...) I don't see any of them now ...

but something else ... the botom right rounded corner doesn't seem to fit the shadow (not the right radius)? I am sorry, but these things seem to spring into my eye (unfortunatly not always when I do them ... )

cheers

Klaus

[melissa]

A fellow perfectionist! Now that you mention it, the bottom right corner of the shadow does look a bit funny. I can only blame GIMP for that. I didn't do it by hand! Glad that you can't see the light green line any more. I am now suffering from "is it really gone? do the colours match?" anxiety.

Melissa.

[kweitzel]

I see what you mean ... I have the same feeling with the color looking over it again and again ... but maybe it comes just from too much looking

nominally both use the color #6a8652 so it must be just our imagination

cheers

Klaus

[melissa]

 

It's just our imagination. I have the ColorZilla extension (a colour picker) for Firefox, and it reckons it's all the same colour. Vielen Dank for your input, Klaus!

Melissa.

[Argos]

I like your site, it's clean and friendly. Nice job!
I wonder about the menu though... it looks a bit out of place and too "heavy" with the rest of the design, and the site may be better off with a lighter menu, that's more in tune with the rest of the site.