How about another critique my new design thread?

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SoRnMaN

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Ok, so you have seen plenty of them, but I would appreciate input on what you like/dislike on a site I am working on for a customer.

http://www.poetsbilliards.com/

So far it is just the front page (hence rate the design). Working on some other stuff for it now.
 
Thanks! There are a few things I am not sure about, and may change the orange to a light/medium blue, but waiting on feedback from the owner before making any major design changes.
 
Thanks for the replies. I decided to switch over to a blue rather than the orange, I think it goes better. blue/yellow/gray/black

Added a few other details, like changing the li's image. Working on the backend now to administer the site. Just wanted to say thanks to the positive reviews so far.
 
SoRnMaN said:
Thanks for the replies. I decided to switch over to a blue rather than the orange, I think it goes better. blue/yellow/gray/black

Added a few other details, like changing the li's image. Working on the backend now to administer the site. Just wanted to say thanks to the positive reviews so far.
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I dont know...I kinda liked the orange better. Did the owner prefer the blue?
 
I dont really like the yellow against all of the other softer colors. It's up to you obviously, just my input. I would change to something that flows with the other colors more. it looks good otherwise, and that isn't a problem anyways.
 
bk12321 said:
I dont really like the yellow against all of the other softer colors. It's up to you obviously, just my input. I would change to something that flows with the other colors more. it looks good otherwise, and that isn't a problem anyways.
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That's funny, because I was just thinking the same thing. The dark/bold yellow that was there went decent with the orange, but not really the blue, so I have lightened it up some.
 
maw said:
OK, i'm a little confused. the article states that IE does not support application/xhtml+xml, does that mean those pages will not be viewable in IE? or will IE resort to "quirks" mode when it encounters that content type?
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IE will prompt you to save the XHTML document as a file.
 
doh said:
IE will prompt you to save the XHTML document as a file.
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OK, maybe i'm on crack, but i changed some XHTML documents from content type text/html to the correct type using:
Code: 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1" />
but it didn't seem to affect the rendering of pages on any browser. I even tried throwing in some malformed markup, but the browsers (IE5+/IE6/Mozilla/Opera) gleefully kicked in their "tag soup" interpretation and rendered everything just fine.

edit: Checking the response headers says they are still being served as text/html.

Am i doing something wrong?

edit #2: no wait, IIS 6.0 was overriding my page settings, i had to set the MIME type in IIS instead of on the page itself...
 
Hey doh, umm, any experience with FCKeditor? It seems that setting the mime-type breaks the script in Firefox and browsers that support mime types other than text/html. I posted to their SourceForge page about it, hopefully they will have an idea. Maybe it has to do with the iframe, not sure.

However, I have narrowed the issue down to the mime-type, as commenting out the function causes the page to load correctly. Took me a while of just going through my page and removing stuff to find it, heh. Kind of strange that it just causes a javascript error though.
 
Nice and clear layout, but there was one thing I was hoping for while browsing the site.

When I go to the gallery and click a photo, I would like to have a direct link to the next pic.Also, it would be nice if the pick was directly centered on screen so I don't have to scroll down to it.
 
Thanks, yes, I am still working on the photo gallery and already plan to add the features you mentioned to it.
 
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