"Dudley Hanks" <hanks.dudley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>"Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:nv40141341tdan0va2du159aempg848i4j@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> "Dudley Hanks" <hanks.dudley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>I'm trying a new feature on my site, and I'm wondering if someone might
>>>take
>>>the time to drop by and test it for me.
>>>
>>>http://www.geocities.com/hanks.dudley/index.html
>>
>> The layout of that page is quite poor. Because a picture says more than
>> a thousand words I added my comments into a screenshot:
>> http://mysite.verizon.net/jurgenex/images/comment.GIF
>>
>> Sorry, but you asked for it :-(
>
>Yes, I did, and I'd love to know what you posted. But, reading text from
a
>screen shot with a screen-reader is just about impossible. So, I guess I
>won't be able to learn from your expertise.
Ooops, sorry, I didn't know that. Trying a verbal description:
- The main text is cramped into a very narrow column on the left side,
while there is plenty of empty space farther to the right, even between
the text and the picture.
- The right half of the text for the links is running into the picture
and is therefore unreadable
- there is a huge space underneath the picture. Why? In particular as
you squeeze all the text into a narrow column, making it hard to read
because of the very short lines
- the text boxes for email and comment are halfway under the text and
halfway under the empty space under the picture. That is confusing.
In the meantime I also experimented a little bit more and found out that
probably you didn't take into account that people are using browser
windows in many different widths. In some widths the page looks pretty
nice. In many it looks just awful. Experiment for yourself by changing
the width of your browser window and you will notice how elements are
jumping around and sometime are ending up in in really bad layouts.
I had one size, where the first part of the title "Light, Sight, and"
was on top of the page to the left of the picture and the last word
"Photography" was moved underneath of the photo as if it were a caption.
Not good.
jue
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