Hour Personnel

allshowcivic · #1 (**permalink**) 08-03-2005, 10:42 AM

Please review a site that I am building. It seems that it displays fine in IE, but Firefox hates it. I would really love for someone to review my CSS and let me know what it is that Firefox is not fond of. The CSS and HTML validates. I am aware that the content is bogus, I mainly would like you opinion on the layout and feel of the site so far. Thank you in advance for your valuable opinions!

Hour Personnel

webhost1 · #2 (**permalink**) 08-03-2005, 12:07 PM

The hour glass does not really look like a hour glass to me.

You have 2 different font styles on the main page. Try to use only 1.

allshowcivic · #3 (**permalink**) 08-03-2005, 12:56 PM

Thank you! I will change the fonts to match.

allshowcivic · #4 (**permalink**) 08-04-2005, 02:46 PM

Munky, a12c4magic, please review the site. Your reviews are spot on.

Thanks!

send2paul · #5 (**permalink**) 08-04-2005, 03:43 PM

Please.....please lose the scrolling i-frame at the bottom of the page. The page looked great until you scroll down to the bottom and see this i-frame in the bottom left hand corner.

Please, if you do only one thing - lose the scrolling i-frame.

Thank you.

info202 · #6 (**permalink**) 08-04-2005, 05:27 PM

I like the look of your site, but I am bothered by a few things:
1. you have this text on your home page:

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Our objective is to link When we refer to Hour (Our) clients that indicates the employer as well as the employee. We strive to find a quality employee for a quality employer. Please allow us to make Hours' Yours'!

I don't understand the second sentence.

2. you also have this text on your home page, so I am assuming your site is not yet complete.

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Content two goes here. Content two goes here. Content two goes here. Content two goes here. Content two goes here. Content two goes here. Content two goes here. Content two goes here. Content two goes here. Content two goes here. Content two goes here. Content two goes here.

Content two goes here. Content two goes here. Content two goes here. Content two goes here.

3. in your job postings, you indicate that a "forlift driva needed"..... is this correct..you are looking for a driva?

pagetta · #7 (**permalink**) 08-05-2005, 03:54 AM

hiya
nice look to the site - simple, functional and nice colours - all good! I like the hour glass type image and the logo - it works well - its good to have an identity like that that can carry through all your marketing.

I realise its not finished yet, but what stood out to me about the overall site is that for a start there's no 'contact' info - it doesn't say where you're based (uk, america, where?) it doesn't say where you'll be offering jobs. If i go on a job site I want to immediately know what jobs you're offering and where (eg specific industry type jobs?)
If you're job database is going to be big you need a search function, not just a list of jobs.

as for the css, I have just started exploring non-table-based layouts myself so I can't offer that much advice, but perhaps you need some position:absolute's in there to secure some of the content?

Here are 2 really good css resources
css zen garden and a list apart

good luck!

MarcieZoob · #8 (**permalink**) 08-05-2005, 04:55 AM

In reviewing your site, I think you're going to have a hard time working with this layout as your company grows and you need more space for info and postings. It's seems too confined and cramped.

The site looks OK in IE but it's a mess in Firefox.

I agree - lose the iframe for Latest News no matter what.

traumahawk · #9 (**permalink**) 08-05-2005, 05:14 AM

I like the dark red "aqua" theme you are going for! You might want to "buttonize" the links under the logo so they don't meld with the headers (divider) and make the mouseover effect a little more focused.

dburdon · #10 (**permalink**) 08-05-2005, 08:44 AM

Allshow,

looked at your site in both IE and Firefox 1.06. It looks clean in IE. But the central text looks as if you have a "tables" "properties" problem.

I've found from my own site builds that IE and Firefox interpret the location coordinates differently. Some things that appear on the side of a page with Firefox will appear at the bottom of a page with IE. What I've found works is to be as precise as possible about location and then use that old favourite trial and error.

allshowcivic · #11 (**permalink**) 08-05-2005, 12:48 PM

If you could only see the smile on my face! Thanks for all of the reviews!

pagetta:

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there's no 'contact' info

Yeah, I have been working starting with the hard stuff first. The contact form will most likely be second to last.

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you need a search function

I agree! Wish me luck!

info202:

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I don't understand the second sentence.

Yeah, the agency is actually playing around with the admin panel, so I cant be responsible for the site content at this point ;-)

send2paul:

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Please, if you do only one thing - lose the scrolling i-frame.

For some reason, I want to lose the i-frame? :-) I usually curse frames, and I dont know what possesed me to use one now. I will figure out a way to get rid of it, I guess since the page could just grow downwards, its not really needed.

pagetta:

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I like the hour glass type image and the logo - it works well

Will you marry me? ;-) This was actually my first attempt at a logo design. I did it from scratch, with little input from the client (a family member by the way)

Thank you all for the reviews. This is my first "non-personal" website, also my first endeavor in PHP. Again, if anyone can tell me why Firefox hates it so much, please let me know. I found a website once that explained a lot of the CSS differences between IE and Firefox, but I havent been able to find it again.

Please keep the great reviews coming!

aperey · #12 (**permalink**) 08-06-2005, 01:20 PM

I just tried the site in Firefox and Internet explorer and it looks the same in both now. However in Firefox it is flush left and in IE it is centered.

allshowcivic · #13 (**permalink**) 08-08-2005, 08:27 AM

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I just tried the site in Firefox and Internet explorer and it looks the same in both now

Awesome! Then I am making progress. margin : auto; seems to work in Firefox.

SnerdeyWebs · #14 (**permalink**) 08-08-2005, 12:09 PM

Well it's difficult to review a website that's so bare with content and the "Blah blah blah blah blah. Do de do do de de do. Blah blah blah." reminds me of many websites I've seen underconstruction.

Your on the right track.. but, really to put a site up live and the bots are crawling.. your blah's might be seen by many =)

I would get it done asap and I'm with the others that posted. Some things are not lined up but your on the right track =)

allshowcivic · #15 (**permalink**) 08-08-2005, 03:01 PM

I have noticed a couple of bots have crawled it, but its hosted on my home machine and is not on the domain yet. Any suggestions on avoiding the bots, but still having it online so my peers see?

SnerdeyWebs · #16 (**permalink**) 08-08-2005, 03:11 PM

hmm... I have not tried this in a while but create a file called ... robots.txt with word.

place this code in it.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Just don't forget to remove it when your done.

Keep it with the index.html file.

If I'm wrong.. someone here will let us know =)

allshowcivic · #17 (**permalink**) 08-09-2005, 09:43 AM

Thanks very much Snerdey!

MuNKyonline · #18 (**permalink**) 08-09-2005, 11:46 AM

Hi allshowcivic!

The only reason I hadn't reviewed your site is because it didn't look even slightly finished as I viewed it in Firefox. Looking at it in Firefox now and it's still a bit wonky but it looks ok in Internet Explorer.

I think to do a fair review you should complete at least the front page as at the moment there isn't much to review except for the logo. I like the hour glass btw but the text looks really bog-standard. Plus I don't really like how they overlap. The rest of the site fits together well. And the 3D effects really bring it up-to-date.

Put some css on that scrollbar near the bottom of the page. Will make it look better in Internet Explorer =)

allshowcivic · #19 (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 09:04 AM

Thanks Munky! I have been working with the site off line and have ditched the IFRAME and have it almost worky worky in Firefox. The agency is really taking their sweet time with content. I built them a control panel to edit content, but they havent done much filling it up. Thanks for the review!

webhost1 · #20 (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by allshowcivic

Thanks Munky! I have been working with the site off line and have ditched the IFRAME and have it almost worky worky in Firefox. The agency is really taking their sweet time with content. I built them a control panel to edit content, but they havent done much filling it up. Thanks for the review!

Why don't you ask for them to send some content to you in email and you post it. Would be much faster than waiting for them to post any.

allshowcivic · #21 (**permalink**) 08-11-2005, 11:07 AM

You know, I actually asked them to do that first. The reason why I built the admin panel was so that they could change content on the fly. I figured at that point, I wouldnt need content from them, they would populate it themselves. Pfft! Why would I expect that to work out? =)

webhost1 · #22 (**permalink**) 08-11-2005, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by allshowcivic

You know, I actually asked them to do that first. The reason why I built the admin panel was so that they could change content on the fly. I figured at that point, I wouldnt need content from them, they would populate it themselves. Pfft! Why would I expect that to work out? =)

I assumed you walked them through it. Is it set up so that a first grader can use it? I mean really simple, not where you have to go through this hoop or that hoop just to do it. Like point and click stuff. Might set it up on one computer and leave it running so all they have to do is click on that window and type? Tell them never to turn off that computer. :)