Feedback required please.

[Chris Leonard]

Hi.

Well, I know I've been a pain over the last few weeks in the group but the
fruits of my labours are here to see. I wanted to redesign my site without
the use of tables and just using DIVs and CSS. I am amazed at how much
faster it loads now - really worth while doing (well, I've only done the
home page at the moment, the others will follow)

One thing I didn't want to loose was my menu bar and with the help of you
all here and some other resources I was able to make one in CSS. To help
others who might like the idea I've created a "CSS Menu Builder" which takes
the time consuming work out of the coding. I'd like your feedback on this
please, let me know if you think it's of any use. Remember, this is my hobby
so keep the comments friendly please.

Thanks

Chris

www.theleonardfamily.co.uk/cssmenu/menuintro.htm

 

[Toby A Inkster]

www.theleonardfamily.co.uk/cssmenu/menuintro.htm

Pretty cool. I think it might be useful though to include an example or
two of the menus near the start.

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

Hi.

Well, I know I've been a pain over the last few weeks in the group but the
fruits of my labours are here to see. I wanted to redesign my site without
the use of tables and just using DIVs and CSS. I am amazed at how much
faster it loads now - really worth while doing (well, I've only done the
home page at the moment, the others will follow)

One thing I didn't want to loose was my menu bar and with the help of you
all here and some other resources I was able to make one in CSS. To help
others who might like the idea I've created a "CSS Menu Builder" which takes
the time consuming work out of the coding. I'd like your feedback on this
please, let me know if you think it's of any use. Remember, this is my hobby
so keep the comments friendly please.

"They're", "their", and "there" are not interchangeable.

 

[Mark Parnell]

www.theleonardfamily.co.uk/cssmenu/menuintro.htm

Looks good. The CSS could be refined a little - e.g.

border-left: 1px solid #FFFFCC;
border-right: 1px solid #FFFFCC;
border-top: 1px solid #FFFFCC;
border-bottom: 1px solid #FFFFCC;

could be written:

border: 1px solid #FFFFCC;

The background colour doesn't look right:
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au/usenet/menu.png

I think you should set the background colour of the page to the same as the
menu.

Future enhancement suggestion: would also be nice if the user could select
colours.

 

[Mark Parnell]

"They're", "their", and "there" are not interchangeable.

LOL - I didn't even read the text! :-D

 

[Chris Leonard]

border-left: 1px solid #FFFFCC;

border-right: 1px solid #FFFFCC;
border-top: 1px solid #FFFFCC;
border-bottom: 1px solid #FFFFCC;

could be written:

border: 1px solid #FFFFCC;

Thanks, I'll change it.

Future enhancement suggestion: would also be nice if the user could select
colours.

Yes, been thinking of this one. I'm not sure how to do it however. It would
be nice to have a line at the start which said something line BACKGROUNDCOL
= #FFFFCC and then reference this within the style sheet (like a variable!)
but how! any ideas ?

Thanks

Chris

 

[Toby A Inkster]

Yes, been thinking of this one. I'm not sure how to do it however. It would
be nice to have a line at the start which said something line BACKGROUNDCOL
= #FFFFCC and then reference this within the style sheet (like a variable!)
but how! any ideas ?

Server-side scripts.

 

[Chris Leonard]

"They're", "their", and "there" are not interchangeable.OK, so English was never my best subject at school ..... but apart from that
?

I've altered the colours and sorted the banding out, still don't know how to
use a variable to select a colour, will have to play with this one.

Thanks to all who gave their (there) comments )

Chris

 

[SeeSchloss]

www.theleonardfamily.co.uk/cssmenu/menuintro.htm

I like the menu, but the whole site does not fit in my
screen (1600x1200), is it intended (the page also scrolls
verticaly even though there is nothing more to show) ?