Posted by John Hosking on 04/03/07 01:03

F'ups set to alt.html.critique

Nik Coughlin wrote:
> Just implemented the html and css for a redesign of a game engine's site. I
> was given a photoshop image for the design, so while I'll pass along any
> comments on the look and feel that I get, I didn't do that, and I'm more
> interested in critiques on the html + css. Obviously this is just a
> template with no content in it, the links are just placeholders etc. The
> existing content on the site will get plugged into it.
>
> Here's the page:
> http://nrkn.com/elysium/page.php


Hi, Nik

Just a few quick comments as I *must* go to sleep.

The reference graphic you're working from looks a bit blurry to me, but
the graphics (upper-right) on your real page look even more so. Of
course, maybe it's just because I'm really tired (or old :-) ) now.

The page seems a wee bit sluggish. When I resize my browser (FF),
there's a half-second delay while the page gets recalculated (or
something) and then repainted. Don't know what this is. It's not my
tiredness or age, because I can get other pages to react perkily.
UPDATE: I've spent, oh, 15 minutes on this post and now, as I'm about to
send, I see the page responding nicely. So maybe I hallucinated the
slowness, or perhaps I'm the sluggish one. Nevermind.

Sluggishness not so bad in IE6, but I see you're doing something special
for it.

Loading takes surprisingly long (about 6 seconds on ADSL 2500 Kbps).
What will it be like with the actual content?

Hey, it's getting cold in here; throw another DIV on the fire, will you?

Okay, I see you're keen to have rounded corners. I guess the stretching
of the graphics is what's bogging the response down. Don't know what to
suggest here, sorry.

The button graphics actually get *fainter* on hover, which I think is a
novelty. It seems, er, not right to me, but I'm not a graphics person,
and you've got one of those there with you, so don't mind me. I would
prefer to see the captions for the buttons change for me as I resize
text, but that's partly because they look blurry to me.

I haven't studied your CSS long enough to find anything to criticize, so
probably it is both hunky and dory.

I can't say I like the frizzy diagonal background graphic, but I guess
that'll be mostly hidden be real content. Otherwise it looks really
good. Certinaly more fresh than the current page.

HTH. ZZzzz..
--
John

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