Critique food site please

[Nik Coughlin]

Hi,

I would really like a critique of the site that I am working on at the
moment. It is nearly done, though you may find a couple of pages with no
real content.

http://nrkn.com/fm/
http://nrkn.com/fm/fm.css

Thanks!

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

I would really like a critique of the site that I am working on at the
moment. It is nearly done, though you may find a couple of pages
with no real content.

http://nrkn.com/fm/
http://nrkn.com/fm/fm.css

Nice work, Nik. The only comments I have after a cursory glance would
be:

1. drop Verdana (for all the oft-stated reasons). Try "Trebuchet MS".
I use this:
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;

2. the blue buttons are just a bit large.

 

[David Segall]

Hi,

I would really like a critique of the site that I am working on at the
moment. It is nearly done, though you may find a couple of pages with no
real content.

http://nrkn.com/fm/
http://nrkn.com/fm/fm.css

Thanks!

I find that the (bottom right) pale green background colour
disturbing. It seems to clash with the other colours. I have no
rational basis for this feeling and I would be curious (and relieved)
if someone could provide one. In any case, I think fewer colours would
enhance the page.

 

[Nik]

Hi,

I would really like a critique of the site that I am working on at the
moment. It is nearly done, though you may find a couple of pages with no
real content.

Looks nice with FF1.5

Is the banner graphic (top-right) supposed to be different on some
pages? There appeared to be little rationale behind which page had
which graphic, which caused some distraction

Nik

 

[Stan McCann]

Looks nice with FF1.5

Is the banner graphic (top-right) supposed to be different on some
pages? There appeared to be little rationale behind which page had
which graphic, which caused some distraction

Nik

I also looked at it with just FF1.5. I'm not sure what banner graphic
you are referring to. I only see one and it is the same centered
across the top on each page.

Nice and clean. I only tried one page but that one page validated.
One suggestion: make logo.png a link to the initial "home" page; I
could find no way back to that initial page without changing the URL.

Other than that, in the few minutes I looked at it, I'd have to give it
an A. Nice work.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

2. the blue buttons are just a bit large.

I agree with BTS, but I see your intent to align with dark blue logo in
upper left. But 266px of leftColumn can take up a lot of real estate on
smaller view ports. If you float leftColumn to the left and add a white
border on right and bottom sides mainColumn can flow underneath and
leftColumn can be a knockout. It will still have the vertical visual
line with the logo above but prevent mainColumn from being a narrow
ribbon with a long scroll when there is substantial content in mainColumn.

 

[Nik Thomas]

I also looked at it with just FF1.5. I'm not sure what banner graphic
you are referring to. I only see one and it is the same centered
across the top on each page.

Loading background.php gives a banner ad with pictures of watermelon and
text "generosity warmth" etc, there are other graphics on other pages.

Revisiting, I see more different images than I had noticed before - so
less confused than I was.

Nik

 

[Matt Silberstein]

Hi,

I would really like a critique of the site that I am working on at the
moment. It is nearly done, though you may find a couple of pages with no
real content.

http://nrkn.com/fm/
http://nrkn.com/fm/fm.css

Thanks!

As others I generally like it, nice clean, good food related colors.
Small issues. First, the leftmost menu item should be the home page.
Second, if you have the room there is no reason for the "generosity
.... " to overlap the image. Third, the directory should have a menu of
some sort. Finally and weakest, I might experiment by putting a touch
of deeper, more primary colors. Food has a range of colors and if you
can get a bit of apple red and pepper green it would be great. I
suspect you can't do that and keep the clean look and the clean look
is more important, but the attempt might produce value.

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[mbstevens]

Hi,

I would really like a critique of the site that I am working on at the
moment. It is nearly done, though you may find a couple of pages with no
real content.

http://nrkn.com/fm/
http://nrkn.com/fm/fm.css

Thanks!

Nice, clean and valid.
Push the text over the green
further toward black. Not enough contrast.

 

[dorayme]

Nice work, Nik. The only comments I have after a cursory glance would
be:

1. drop Verdana (for all the oft-stated reasons). Try "Trebuchet MS".
I use this:
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;

2. the blue buttons are just a bit large.

I think the reason they are that big in width at least is for
symmetry in the design, they cannot without loss of design, be
reduced. Perhaps the height of the buttons could be, maybe bigger
graphic under to compensate?

The OP's http://nrkn.com/fm/fm.css should be
http://nrkn.com/fm/css/fm.css

 

[Leonard Blaisdell]

Hi,

I would really like a critique of the site that I am working on at the
moment. It is nearly done, though you may find a couple of pages with no
real content.

Bravo as always. I do find the white text on yellow background at the
top difficult to read.

leo

 

[kchayka]

good food related colors.

It's funny that my first reaction was to the colors, but pretty much in
the opposite direction - that yellow-green in the right columns is vile
to me (reminds me of baby excrement), and there are very few foods that
are blue.

The combination of navy blue, medium blue, orange and that yellow-green
don't remind me of food at all.

Food has a range of colors and if you
can get a bit of apple red and pepper green it would be great.

Sounds quite Christmas-y to me. ho ho ho

I'd go with a celery green instead, especially if the intent is light
and fresh.

 

[Nicolo Nyo Armato]

Nik Coughlin ha scritto:

Hi,

I would really like a critique of the site that I am working on at the
moment. It is nearly done, though you may find a couple of pages with no
real content.

http://nrkn.com/fm/
http://nrkn.com/fm/fm.css

Haiii! Haiiiiiii!!! Chottooooo!!! >_<

I do not really know the target level of the company and your level in
web production but:

- General visual guidelines are very far, close to Mars, clean but very
amateurish IMHO.
- Brand Logo on Venus as well, logo restyling is required IMHO
- Colors are quite good and quite bad at the same time, there are too
much colour and no really good connection between them. MULTI-IMHO
- I didn't any w3c check but ppls around said ok, so code is valid at
least It's a good start ;D W3C-IMHO

It's a very good work for amateur, acceptable-looking for novice
professional design, bad for skilled professional, "impossible to say"
for highly skilled award winning professional , make your choice

Shake your mind and peace \/, man. Gambatte kudasai ne ^.~

--
Minnasan, sayonara yo,
Nicolò Nyo Armato

www.nyosources.com
One-million parsec beyond the brain evolution, being a perfect guy,
learning everything and taking human lifestyle to the limit.

 

[Jose]

I would really like a critique of the site that I am working on at the

moment. It is nearly done, though you may find a couple of pages with no
real content.

http://nrkn.com/fm/
http://nrkn.com/fm/fm.css

The left (navigation) pane, being of fixed size, is a problem for narrow
windows. Let it shrink with the window, so that the content pane (on
the right) can have more of the space. The issue may be the four
peppers, which are pretty but superfluous (so should move out of the way
when there isn't really room for them). Perhaps putting them at the top
of the left navigation pane, and set up so that if the window is narrow
enough, the content pane would also slide down, leaving the peppers on
top of both panes.

I generally don't like navigation panes on the sides, because the
introduce =so= much wasted space below them.

Jose

 

[Leonard Blaisdell]

It's a very good work for amateur, acceptable-looking for novice
professional design, bad for skilled professional, "impossible to say"
for highly skilled award winning professional , make your choice

Egad!

leo

 

[Nicolo Nyo Armato]

Leonard Blaisdell ha scritto:

Egad!

leo

Dallas ne?

--
Minnasan, sayonara yo,
Nicolò Nyo Armato

www.nyosources.com
One-million parsec beyond the brain evolution, being a perfect guy,
learning everything and taking human lifestyle to the limit.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Hi,

I would really like a critique of the site that I am working on at the
moment. It is nearly done, though you may find a couple of pages with
no real content.

http://nrkn.com/fm/
http://nrkn.com/fm/fm.css

[sound of Teletype machines chattering in the background] Other reports
are pouring in from the corners of the globe![1] I'll add one quick
observation. When the logo area, top-left of the viewport is clicked, the
resulting page that's not styled like the others is pretty jarring. It's
nice and clean and very readable, but looks like an afterthought or
something someone forgot to style.

[1]I don't know about you, but I never saw a globe with corners.[2]

[2]I predict someone will post a link for an image of a square world globe
here:

 

[Nik Coughlin]

Hi,

I would really like a critique of the site that I am working on at
the moment. It is nearly done, though you may find a couple of
pages with no real content.

http://nrkn.com/fm/
http://nrkn.com/fm/fm.css

[sound of Teletype machines chattering in the background] Other
reports are pouring in from the corners of the globe![1] I'll add
one quick observation. When the logo area, top-left of the viewport
is clicked, the resulting page that's not styled like the others is
pretty jarring. It's nice and clean and very readable, but looks
like an afterthought or something someone forgot to style.

Ah, that's the old version of the site you see

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Hi,

I would really like a critique of the site that I am working on at
the moment. It is nearly done, though you may find a couple of
pages with no real content.

http://nrkn.com/fm/
http://nrkn.com/fm/fm.css

[sound of Teletype machines chattering in the background] Other
reports are pouring in from the corners of the globe![1] I'll add
one quick observation. When the logo area, top-left of the viewport
is clicked, the resulting page that's not styled like the others is
pretty jarring. It's nice and clean and very readable, but looks
like an afterthought or something someone forgot to style.

Ah, that's the old version of the site you see

Well, it was the version I got to when I clicked the URL you posted.
Sorry -- my crystal ball is in the shop for lube and oil.

 

[Nik Coughlin]

Nik Coughlin wrote:

Hi,

I would really like a critique of the site that I am working on at
the moment. It is nearly done, though you may find a couple of
pages with no real content.

http://nrkn.com/fm/
http://nrkn.com/fm/fm.css

[sound of Teletype machines chattering in the background] Other
reports are pouring in from the corners of the globe![1] I'll add
one quick observation. When the logo area, top-left of the viewport
is clicked, the resulting page that's not styled like the others is
pretty jarring. It's nice and clean and very readable, but looks
like an afterthought or something someone forgot to style.

Ah, that's the old version of the site you see

Well, it was the version I got to when I clicked the URL you posted.
Sorry -- my crystal ball is in the shop for lube and oil.

Ach, what I mean is, the url that the logo in the top left links to is the
url for the old version of the site, which is what you see when you click
it.