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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Ok, this is going to be quite long and not too plesant, but I do like the site -- I just think it could be a lot better... Colour wise, if you want to stick to the monochromatic thing you have going for a project like this I'd suggest you try and structure the colours much the same way you do the data. Use the monochromatic values of the colours to signify the different levels of your data, as you currently have it the colours seem to be decided rather haphazardly to contrast against its most immediate container as opposed to fitting into any kind of structure to signify the data's place and the data's relationships to other elements in the document. For example, the colours for days of the week; the variance here for the current week is too strong and separates these elements too much and makes the data difficult to read. If you kept the text colour the same and only varied the background colour ever so slightly (just enough to be visible) the data will be easier to read whilst the current week will still contain a strong significance through the repetition of cells with a slightly different background colour but it won't separate it too much from the other days of the week. The opposite goes for the colouring of the current day. Making this the same colour as the content headers makes this element seem completely static and non interactive. Again, use colour and create a code of conventions for your site. i.e.; all links are green, all links are underlines, all headers where the header text is a link have a very dark green bg colour. As it is, come links are green, others white, most with underlines, some without, some headers with green backgrounds and white text are links, and some are not. Most green text is a link, some are not, moth white text is not a link, and some are. This makes things horribly confusing. Outline your document structure and colours/style elements rigidly so that you have a uniform convention for which to use for links, headers, highlights, sub elements, content blocks and so on, but make it cohesive and make it flow in a logical manner. The contrast could also do with some work, sometime you have too much contrast, other times you have too little. The biggest pitfalls with monochromatic colour schemes is that there is no overly contrasting elements unless you keep everything rather low key except for one type of element like links etc... May I suggest colouring all of your structural elements in that monochromatic scheme but adding a highlight colour for the links, again work this into you style structure. Oh and loose the gradient in the site header, there's absolutely no point to it as all it's doing it drawing un-needed attention to the wasted space you have to the right of the header (mainly because it's the only gradient you use; this also makes it look generally out of place). Markup markup markup.... Your HTML is... rather horrible. Yes your using a Doctype and your using CSS but why? According to the w3c valuator ( [url=http://validator.w3.org/]http://validator.w3.org/[/url] ) there are 244 errors in your code. Most of them because you don't use quotes ( " " ) for your HTML attributes but you have some major issues with having dumped one whole HTML document inside the body of another, your code: [code] </div> </font> </small> </td></tr></table> <table><tr><td> <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> <!-- [/code] Big no no there. And I've found a lot of other really strange things around the place like this: [code] <title> Free Rivers </title> </head> <a name="top"></a> <body bgcolor=#42574A text=#000000 alink=666666 topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 rightmargin=0> <table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 bgcolor=#FFFFFF> <tr> [/code] Where is that anchor ( <a> tag ) exactly? If it's not in the <body> of the document where is a browser meant to scroll to when you navigate to it? Modern browsers like IE6 may be very forgiving when it comes to how they handle these kind of things, but you can bet light weight browsers that run on PDA's and the like probably aren't robust enough to cater for errors like this. Then there's your use of CSS; most of which is inline thus completely removing any benefit of using CSS in the first place. CSS is all about removing style from content. What if you wanted to alter the text size for each cell in your calendar? You'd have to alter 30+ separate tags in your document. But if you'd coded the CSS correctly and simply created a style class for those elements, all you'd need to change is that class. It's a nice site but the colour and styles need some serious thought and the code needs a lot of cleaning. [url=http://dracusis.deviantart.com/] [img]http://www.whatever.net.au/~cameron/files/images/ozone/ArtDecoSiggy.gif[/img] [/url] [This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 07-24-2003).] Loading...
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