stevesobol.com critique, round 2

http://stevesobol.com/p/2005preview2/

Notes:

a) I know. No DOCTYPE. It will be XHTML 1.0 Strict (with the
corresponding DOCTYPE placed on the page) when all is said and done, but
Photoshop 7 doesn't generate IMG tags that are XHTML-compliant, so I
will have to change them myself, and I will be replacing ImageReady's
mouseover JavaScript with XHTML-compliant stuff. I'd love to buy CS, and
CS would probably fix this problem - but right now I'm too po' to afford
CS.

b) Ditched the image map, am using ImageReady slices, put in ALT
attributes; this page displays correctly in Lynx. Do need to put TITLE
attributes too.

c) Ditched the original font (Letraset Mekanik) in favor of Microsoft's
Trebuchet, which was specifically designed for display on web pages and
therefore anti-aliases much better than Mekanik (or at least the version
of Mekanik that I have on my hard drive).

d) Cleaned up the overall look and feel.

e) Still no content yet.

f) Am using mouseovers. Would be interested in hearing if people think
they're OK or not. (I've not yet decided for myself whether they're too
cheesy...)

Thank you!


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"The wisdom of a fool won't set you free"
--New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle"

Steve Sobol wrote:
>
> http://stevesobol.com/p/2005preview2/

Tried to have a peek, but got your 'nobody home' message.
>
> f) Am using mouseovers. Would be interested in hearing if people think
> they're OK or not. (I've not yet decided for myself whether they're too
> cheesy...)

Mouseovers are OK if that's what you want. I prefer doing that sort of
thing in CSS. YMMV.

Matt-the-Hoople wrote:
> Steve Sobol wrote:
>
>>
>> http://stevesobol.com/p/2005preview2/
>
>
> Tried to have a peek, but got your 'nobody home' message.

Yup, that's because I deleted everything out of that directory and moved
it up onto the main site. The site is disabled, and unless you're logged
into the blogging software as an admin you'll get that message, but I
put in a hack at

http://stevesobol.com/view.php

which will set a session cookie that will allow you to check out the
site even if you're not logged in.

Note: IE6 displays the site properly. Mozilla (specifically FireFox
1.04) almost does, but the nav links are off to the left side. I already
know I have to fix that.

>> f) Am using mouseovers. Would be interested in hearing if people think
>> they're OK or not. (I've not yet decided for myself whether they're
>> too cheesy...)
>
> Mouseovers are OK if that's what you want. I prefer doing that sort of
> thing in CSS. YMMV.

Yeah, me too, Javascript should not be used if not absolutely necessary
- but I tried to implement something in CSS, and decided it would take
more time than it's worth - so for now there are no mouseovers or
rollovers. Accessibility is more important to me than cutesy animation,
and I wanted to make sure I did things in a way that would allow me to
put all the alt and title tags in properly.

I'm working on the site's stylesheet now, so if you check out the site
over the next couple days, keep in mind that the CSS is going to change
somewhat.

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JustThe.net - Apple Valley, CA - http://JustThe.net/ - 888.480.4NET (4638)
Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / sjsobol@JustThe.net / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED

"The wisdom of a fool won't set you free"
--New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle"