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Old April 8th, 2004, 01:06 AM
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OverHaul

I recently did a little overhaul and need some feedback on the usability and overall look and feel.

It's mainly to show off my dogs but I also have a few pages computer related and a few music pages.

http://kirschstrasse.net/

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Old April 8th, 2004, 04:08 AM
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Nice dogs..

Easy to navigate, always a link home - so good in that respect.

The one thing that concerns me is the links on the main page. In your intro, you state the site is about your dogs - but you have pages on internet security, web design, music links etc.
I would maybe group these into one section, i.e. other stuff, then have a seperate navigational structure for those pages, like a site within a site.

Only other thing, apart from no DOCTYPE definition, is that I would maybe have the images of your dogs as links to their respective pages.

Otherwise, not bad.

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Old April 8th, 2004, 04:34 AM
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hi - overall nice site - and i love dogs

just two small tips:

I think that there should be a proper 'Email me' link with the others, not everyone will see the email icon further down the page

Also, I think that the two dogs on the home page should be links, with the relevant dog picture going to the relevant page. Also, the names above the pictures could be links.

Otherwise, it's good

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Aaw I love rottwerillers, they are big, (I think) huggable and damn fierce when their natural insticts kick in. Our family use to have one, hes passed on now. sigh.

Back to the site, its a cool site, but having a universal navigation bar is just more convenient for the site visitor.

It is quite troublesome to maintain tho if you are not using server side scripts or Drewamweaver template / Library item.

for plain HTML, you could use frames, iframes, copy paste method or javascript.

Javascript method possibility:

Code:
<script src="http://yousite.com/js/nav.js" type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"></script>
<noscript><a href="www.yoursite.com">Back to Home</a></noscript>


the linked javascript content:
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var navibar = '<a href="...1...">A</a>';
navibar += '<a href="...2...">B</a>';
navibar += '<a href="...3...">C</a>';
document.write(navibar);

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Thanks guys,

There's still a lot of "finish" work I have to do and stuff left to add.

I have been torn about about making the pictures on the opening page into links.........I don't know if I should make the names above the pics links, the pictures themselves links, or both.

I agree I should put some words referring to the "e-mail" along with the icon.

As far as the "universal navigation bar", I kinda like the CSS buttons I'm using and I hate frames, I won't use them unless "absolutely" necessary.

Thanks for taking the time to have a look and I will be using some of your ideas.

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Hope it goes well

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