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18 July 2007
php, or please help penis I have a site. People pay me actual money to edit it.→[More:]It's here:
http://www.theorangegrove.co.uk
Please feel free to brutalise me at this juncture. Tell me how to make it better.
Odd, odd, odd. That's the second time today I've seen that "We want to stay together line" - I saw it on a local foster-care poster. I pondered it for a minute. Never noticed it before. Synchronous.
Fits my basic needs: Everything works, easy to navigate. I even like the color choices.
To my eye, the pics on the right side when you go to a page seem a bit large, but I can also see that they are there to fill up the white space and to lessen the dullness that can happen when all pics are the same size. (course, that could just be me, cause I hate to have to look people in the face...)
Overall clean, crisp, and a biggie I didn't mention earlier - it loads quickly and the images still look good. Oh, and another good thing - no pdf's!
Must stop now...goes to have coffee.
Okay, now that I've gotten over my snarkiness, for which I tender apologies:
I'm looking at the site on a hi-res monitor, 1680x1050, using the latest Firefox. Looks clean, crisp, pleasing to the eye, and not too much white space even at this resolution. The bulletin board you're using is pretty standard, but looks clean. If you could customize it at all to fit more with the color scheme and design you've got going, that would be nice.
You did use the blink tag on your contact page for the main office, though, and that's so distracting to me I almost couldn't tear my eyes away from it to look at the rest of the information presented on the page. May I suggest using bold lettering, a different font, or a bigger size?
Also, numbering the sections (ie, 01. Welcome, etc.) is a little distracting and sort of detracts from the whole free-association surfing thing. Someone might arrive at section 5 from elsewhere and feel like they've done something wrong.