New website. Comments? Suggestions?

[Edutainment]

http://radtacular.com

There's no content on there yet (except for a little braille translator, which is what I used to make my signature (which says edutainment if you didn't guess)) but I just finished the design. If you use IE it's gonna look messed up. I'm working on it.

Firefox users, how is it?

Anyone here have any suggestions on how to fix the issues with IE? I hate bugfixing for IE

[theelk]

The front page has some of the most intellectually stimulating writing I have ever read.

Seriously, though, nice layout. Is that going to be a template you'll make for mutiple sites?

[Edutainment]

Well it's a pretty basic layout I've used before, so I guess.

Also, for the most part, the issues with IE have been fixed. Theres still a gap at the top and a gap above the buttons' shadow. I'm also going to add a slight margin so the text isn't so close to the edge. Then I'll put on some sort of blog to replace "text goes here palmsize kitty text goes here"

[lifeisbetterwithketchup]

Looks fine in Firefox 2.0.0.12 and Opera 9.25, both under Ubuntu. Good layout.

[Electric Rain]

Basic design, yes, but less is more, right?

I have a couple suggestions to speed it up and keep things a little cleaner, though. It doesn't take too long to load, but it still takes an abnormal amount of time.

1. Use a PHP or SHTML include for your top section.

2. Use a CSS stylesheet instead of specifying styles on every page.


Other suggestions:

3. You need a footer. The way it cuts off at the bottom doesn't quite look right. It almost looks like you can scroll down further when you can't; people need to know when they're at the end of the page. You can also use an include for this.

4. Try sprucing up your buttons. Maybe add a "onmouseover" event on each of them to have the background and/or text change color or something (alternate image) when the user puts their cursor on them.

5. You need a good way to let the user know which page they're currently on. Either put something in the top (blue) header for each page (though you won't be able to use includes this way) or just put in a header at the top of the content area (white) stating the current page.

6. On that note, title your pages. Right now, they all just say "Radtacular.com" in their title tags. Title each page so it reads, Radtacular.com - Home", "Radtacular.com - Blog", ect.


By the way, your code is very clean... good colors too. Nice work.

[Edutainment]

Basic design, yes, but less is more, right?

I have a couple suggestions to speed it up and keep things a little cleaner, though. It doesn't take too long to load, but it still takes an abnormal amount of time.

1. Use a PHP or SHTML include for your top section.

2. Use a CSS stylesheet instead of specifying styles on every page.


Other suggestions:

3. You need a footer. The way it cuts off at the bottom doesn't quite look right. It almost looks like you can scroll down further when you can't; people need to know when they're at the end of the page. You can also use an include for this.

4. Try sprucing up your buttons. Maybe add a "onmouseover" event on each of them to have the background and/or change color or something (alternate image) when the user puts their cursor on them.

5. You need a good way to let the user know which page they're currently on. Either put something in the top (blue) header for each page (though you won't be able to use includes this way) or just put in a header at the top of the content area (white) stating the current page.

6. On that note, title your pages. Right now, they all just say "Radtacular.com" in their title tags. Title each page so it reads, Radtacular.com - Home", "Radtacular.com - Blog", ect.


By the way, your code is very clean... good colors too. Nice work.

1. The slowness is caused by my crappy free host
2. good call
3. before I did the shadows by making that the bg of a main container, then putting the content container in there, but that was dumb, all I had to do was make the shadows the background, and only have the content container. It was a conscious decision not to have a footer, although I may or may not add one in the future
4. mouse over was what I originally had in mind, but I never really got around to it. I still plan to do it. I'm gonna flip the green bar (I did it in photoshop so it's a separate layer) so it looks depressed/indented.
5. I think I'll make the button for the current page dim or something
6. Good call

Thanks for the tips

[Electric Rain]

You're welcome. I was going to suggest that you dim the button of the page they're on or something like that, but then you couldn't use an include, which I love. Well, technically you could with a little bit of scripting... it wouldn't be hard, but it may not be worth it.