www.gs-festival.co.uk

icb01co2 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-28-2005, 05:22 AM

Hi All,
Can you please have a look at www.gs-festival.co.uk and give me your opinions. I know that I have no meta tag information etc there at present but im looking for comments more related to design optimization than other stuff. Unless of course you would like to suggest some key phrases I should be targeting.

Thanks, Chris.

icb01co2 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-28-2005, 11:37 AM

Anyone?

ADAM Web Design · #3 (**permalink**) 11-28-2005, 11:52 AM

You may not be getting reviews because your host is responding very slowly and may not be reachable from some locations. I noticed that the page took almost a minute to load...and I'm on 1.8 Mbps cable modem.

I don't really know what to say about it...mostly because I'm not in your target market (I can't stand musicals and operas).

I like the way you indicated PDFs in your submenus, although you may also want to put it in text beside each link in case some people don't recognize the icon. You also may want to increase the height of each submenu link so that they're consistent.

You've got a typo. "Atempt" is misspelled. I'm not sure, but I think "Collectibles" is misspelled as well.

You've got two "Welcome to the Festival" things down your left side.

Other than that, it looks cool. The info is easy enough to read and digest, and the navigation is consistent. That's all I want out of any site primarily.

icb01co2 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-29-2005, 05:20 AM

Hi ADAM Web Design,

Any ideas why it is reacting so slowly? Theres a bit of flash and a fair few images, so it maybe take a little time for the average dial-up modem, but im supprised it was so slow for you. Will this be more to do with my hosting company as aposed to the page content?

P.S. Your not the only one who cant stand musicals. I want a real development job :-(

Spectur · #5 (**permalink**) 11-29-2005, 04:37 PM

I got to you site..

I have one big isues with the static back ground and the text running off the bottom making it impossible to read and if I shrink the text to fit the back ground it is too small to read. You may want to do a rework and use css to allow the back ground to tile behind the text. also the changingin back ground color from white to blue makes it hard to read the text.

icb01co2 · #6 (**permalink**) 11-30-2005, 06:04 AM

Hi Spectur,

I had no idea what you were talking about, then i looked at it in fire fox, and I see the problem, im on it.

icb01co2 · #7 (**permalink**) 11-30-2005, 06:07 AM

Ok, thats one thing sorted, but I never realized that "a" tags could not have a width attribute. IE displays the top menu correctly but in firefox theres a few problems:

1) the links are incorrect width (as mentioned no "a" tag with attribute.

2) the dropdown menu appears behind the flash intro

Anyone help with either probem here?

icb01co2 · #8 (**permalink**) 11-30-2005, 06:15 AM

Aghhhh, actually I have another question with regards to FireFox. Before I had the main contecnt section set to a specific height. In IE when the content exceeded that height the div container grew appropriately. With firefox the text spanned over it as Spectur stated.

I have now removed the height attribute at the container grows appropriately. However, I want to specify a minimum height of the container so that pages with out enough text will not be too short and display the blue background i.e.

http://www.gs-festival.co.uk/Assosia...spx?Catagory=2

How do i do this with css and fire fox.

Thanks, CHris.