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amiman

04-19-2006, 03:26 PM

This is my real first attempt at using mostly CSS for layout / style I would like some feed back please It has been online for about 3 weeks. I have change it a couple of times but I would like real opinions dont hold back.

http://www.**********.co.uk

KDLA

04-20-2006, 09:41 AM

Whoa - you've got some serious spamming going on in your metadata. I suggest you get rid of the multiple occurrences of text in your keywords.

The design is rather plain, sort of "straight-from-the-template" like. You might customize the design, so that it is more visually appealing, perhaps using some of the colors in the banner. I like the clean look of it; it's just a tad sterile.

Good Luck -
KDLA

Kendi

04-28-2006, 12:29 AM

The design is rather plain, sort of "straight-from-the-template" like.

That was my thought as well. It could use a little color too.
What about centering it on the page?

Kendi

amiman

04-28-2006, 11:14 AM

Thanks for the comments Ive now changed the colour scheme to match logo but now I think its too bright. ???????? Also ive centred the page .

How do you do it in CSS because Ive just centered it on the "centre table"

Does it look better??????

KDLA

04-28-2006, 11:20 AM

Place this right after your <body> tag:

<div style="text-align: center">

and this right before the closing </body> tag:
</div>

Here's the info: http://www.student.oulu.fi/~laurirai/www/css/middle/

It is a bit bright. You might tone the green down a little by adding some gray, using a blender like this: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/

KDLA

amiman

04-28-2006, 11:44 AM

I have used an online gradient maker to do the gradients at:

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/gradient/

you do not have alot of control over it so I will try again

Cheers

Kendi

04-28-2006, 01:07 PM

It's looking better. I like the gradient header bars. They do seem a little bright but they might not seem so bright if you change the green text to black instead.

Kendi

amiman

04-28-2006, 01:56 PM

Ive changed the text to black what do you think now seems better

KDLA

04-28-2006, 02:00 PM

That does look better. :)

amiman

04-28-2006, 02:06 PM

Cheers
Do you think I should colour the background??

Thanks for your input

KDLA

04-28-2006, 02:12 PM

I'd leave everything in the container white. You could change the background of the body. I wouldn't use a bright color - that would only distract from your content.

You might look for color inspiration here: http://www.hitmill.com/html/rgbcolorvalues.html or here: http://infohound.net/colour/

One thing - I'd change the "Free" color in the banner, closer to the green in your gradient.

KDLA

amiman

04-28-2006, 02:41 PM

Ive changed the logo colours What do you think????

KDLA

04-28-2006, 03:06 PM

Much better. Every time you change something, your site looks classier! ;)

amiman

04-28-2006, 03:18 PM

Cheers thanks for the compliment. Ive just been looking round your site nice site I take it its database driven. That will be the next thing Ill be asking for help on here for. I want to change it to php/mysql when I learn how it will be much easier to update.

Again thanks for the input and comments :)

KDLA

04-28-2006, 03:48 PM

Do you mean http://kdla.ky.gov?
That's all hand-coded, manually changed, CSS-styled.
No databases here....

amiman

04-28-2006, 03:58 PM

Yes thats the site I was on about I saw the search box and thought it was database, I didnt know you could put a search box on static pages for site search. hows it done??

KDLA

04-28-2006, 04:07 PM

Our state's network is run by NIC, a subsidiary of Google. It's something they've set up via IP address and hidden form fields. We don't control it from our server. The search is on our site, but the search results actually come from their server, which spiders our once or twice a week.

KDLA

amiman

04-28-2006, 08:19 PM

Ok. Is it easy to set this up or is it a special agreement you have with NIC :confused:

KDLA

04-29-2006, 09:51 PM

No problem. It's a special contract, providing our state's government web services Google-like capabilities. It cost us (our state) millions of dollars (14, I think) to use. I don't think it's available for small sites; more like corporate networks. There are several other U.S. states who've gone this route, too.

amiman

05-03-2006, 04:08 PM

I'd leave everything in the container white. You could change the background of the body. I wouldn't use a bright color - that would only distract from your content.

KDLA

Ive made the body a greyish colour

What do you think???

http://www.**********.co.uk