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ntudiveteam.com - website on scuba diving club

all comments are welcome.

the site is done using xhtml and css, so older browsers will have a problem. don't know how it will turn out on mac IE, cos I dun have a mac to check.



thanks in advance for any comments!

okee dokee...since you mentioned it, I loaded up Mac/IE5.1 (I normally browse in Mac/NN7) and viewed them side-by-side. You can see for yourself.

Mac/IE5.1
Mac/NN7

To make this a learning process, lets look through the code, shall we? The CSS is the culprit in the definition for the class "header.":

background: transparent url('/images/layout/postheader.gif') repeat-y top left;

Strip out your quotation marks. It will still validate with W3C specs, don't worry.

That being said, your site doesn't fit very well in a 800x600 window. I do all my browsing in roughly that size. Could we fix that? Danke.

ON TO THE DESIGN!

I really like the navigation cliche you've got going for you. Really nice stuff there. But take a look at the rollover for "dive courses." You've got a mishap there, either by image or code.

For some reason, there's a pixel differentiation between root (/) and any other page (including /index.php). Really odd. Check it out. Switch back and forth between those two pages, and you'll see it for yourself.

Since there isn't much going on design-wise for this site, I'll make one final comment: The blockiness isn't really "fluid-like." Since you're all about diving, and diving makes you think of water (and half-naked, gorgeous men, if you're anything like me), I would like to see some of the corners smoothed out a bit--particularly the bit at the very top.

Frankly, it looks more like a clan page of some kind, and less like a diving page.

Good stuff, good markup -- I applaud your efforts.

Hi, i definately backup the comments made by twitch,

your menu is a great idea and very fitting, but yeh the general layout could do with some fluid, maybe some rounded corners, and maybe alter the colours a little, a bit more blue or yellow being a scuba theme

most of its just opinion stuff anyhow, i like your title and logo by the way also

Hmm... not much to add. The size is kind of odd, though, because at 800x600 you to have to scroll horizontally, and at 1024x768 you're left with some dead space on the right. I would make it so that it fits in 800x600, and then make it fluid so it expands gracefully in higher resolutions. Or maybe you could center it. Just some ideas.

Also, I clicked on the "read on" link (in the "what we did during the hols" section) and got a bunch of errors...




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thanks for all the comments, greatly appreciated. I try to see what i can do to improve on the 'fluidity' heh.

meanwhile, can I trouble twItch^ to test it in Mac again for me? I amended the css file.
and the php error has been rectified.

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Looks fine in Mac/IE5.1 now, but it's still too freakin' wide.