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Web Design Critquie Requested....

Win2kpro/IE6.0

The navigation bar on the left is nice, but the arrows only appear after I click the link and then stay on the clicked link.

The home links to the index.html, not the index2, but I'm sure you're aware of that.

Looks nice. =)
 
I noticed that on ie Mac, your body area drops down leaving an empty space. Other then that looks good.
 
Yeah I know....

I have no idea why thought either, Safari works fine, and every other broswer works fine too.

Any ideas....
 
The subtext on the logo, i.e., "Investment Property Group", appears blurred on my screen. I had to move closer to read it.

Also, running Firefox on a 17" monitor @ 1024 x 768, the information line on the default start page is hidden by my status bar.

And, clicking home takes me to a dead end, apparently an old index page.

Other than that, the site is very, very nice.
 
Quite nice indeed. If I could suggest one minor thing - maybe it's useful, maybe it's not. The content above "Recent Closings" on the homepage looks very much like the content on the underlying pages. Would you be averse to making that a little more "attention-getting"?

Other than that, that design is so clean, usable and on target that others could take a lesson from it.

/golf claps from the gallery
 
Not bad

I like it. Simple. Clean. Calm. I like it.

Like it was said, the arrows on the nav bar at left makes me think that they're "may" be a drop down menu or something. Its not too big o deal or anything since I get the idea after a second of nothing poping up :) And oh yeah, I like the brushed metal background.

Just saw something: In the text, "Recent Closing", it apears as though there is a white background behind part of the text. It's hard to notice, if you're not checking every small detail. And just saw another thing with the pen on the right. The shadows don't appear to be blending with the background color well. Not sure how you designed the site and layed out the content though.....those are really just small flaws, not a big deal, i can just be detailed oriented at times :)



FriarTuck said:
And, clicking home takes me to a dead end, apparently an old index page.

Other than that, the site is very, very nice.
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I think that has to do with this homepage being named "index2.html". Probably a beta homepage for now and will be changed to "index.html" later.....?
 
macgfxdesigner said:
I have no idea why thought either, Safari works fine, and every other broswer works fine too.

Any ideas....
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Yea I know why. It's because IE isn't compliant, and is a nightmare to code for. We are currently disscusing not supporting IE for Macintosh at our design firm. It is a bit risky to not support IE but, the time we will save not coding for it might make it worth it.

We know that 2% of the users who visit or clients website are Mac users and of that 2% 50% are using a brower other than IE. So if a site has 1000 unique sessions a day that comes out to about 20 Mac users and 10 of those Mac users are using IE.

I can justify letting those ten people switch, but our clients are financial institutions and some of the online banking options require IE. That's our dilemma.

Has anyone else out there stopped supporting IE for the Mac?
 
solidGas said:
Yea I know why. It's because IE isn't compliant, and is a nightmare to code for. We are currently disscusing not supporting IE for Macintosh at our design firm. It is a bit risky to not support IE but, the time we will save not coding for it might make it worth it.

We know that 2% of the users who visit or clients website are Mac users and of that 2% 50% are using a brower other than IE. So if a site has 1000 unique sessions a day that comes out to about 20 Mac users and 10 of those Mac users are using IE.

I can justify letting those ten people switch, but our clients are financial institutions and some of the online banking options require IE. That's our dilemma.

Has anyone else out there stopped supporting IE for the Mac?
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Yes, and I haven't heard any complaints. Over the summer, I redesigned a website for a sister company of my former employer. They asked that I fix an issue occuring in NS6, but nothing about IE/Mac.

At my former employer, we had a situation just as you describe above. When they did their version of the math, they insisted that IE/Mac be supported. After I told them that IE/Mac was no longer being developed, and that Safari and Mozilla were the two major Mac browsers, they softened their stance and downgraded IE/Mac bugfixes.

Just remember, IE/Mac is not going to trend upward until MS announces they're reviving its development.
 
I like everything about the design except the brushed metal background. It doesn't blend with the other colors.

I woudln't recommend changing it to a solid color, but maybe a very toned-down, grey pattern (excluding brushed metal ;)). It just seems out of place to me.

scem0
 
scem0 said:
I like everything about the design except the brushed metal background. It doesn't blend with the other colors.

I woudln't recommend changing it to a solid color, but maybe a very toned-down, grey pattern (excluding brushed metal ;)). It just seems out of place to me.

scem0
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I don't know. I've been around enough financial types to believe that the brushed metal would be well received. Anything that conveys "solid foundation" or "sturdy" and the like, but in a modern way, resonates with them because they want to express that kind of sentiment to inspire consumer confidence. Generally speaking, of course - YMMV.

Maybe a little hue/saturation on the brushed metal could blend it in better.
 
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