bruehgruppe template -- testers needed

[Arabica]

Hellp pixelposters,

I spent the holiday days creating a new template for our photoblog.

Could you be so kind to check http://www.bruehgruppe.de an give comments if everything 'seems' right.

thanks
Arabica

It should look like here:

ach, wenn ich doch nur die Seite geladen bekäme

if I only could connect to that page ;=)

the page loads extremely slow, so validating is a pain as well...

1) why this white margin on top and then that shaded background which gets lost very fast and the rest of the page (but out of the visible content on my screen) is white as well?

2)

<img src="images/20051228152825_xmas_0037.jpg" alt="lounge lights :: NIKON D50 with 1/25 sec | f 8 | 40 mm | ISO " title="<b>lounge lights</b><br />NIKON D50 with 1/25 sec | f 8 | 40 mm | ISO " width="720" height="1144" border="0" id="photo"/>

something here looks absolutely broken ... breaks in image-titles?
I think you forgot to close the <img-tag at the right place?

3) because of that I could not validate the CSS...

[Arabica]

Hi Connie,

can you explain the problem. Is it a server problem or a page problem.
I also have some trouble today, but i don't know what's the problem with the server today.

Meanwhile... try harder ;-)

greetz
arabica

It must be a server problem, because the website is not so problematic, no heavy images, tricky code..
it should load faster... but it took up to one minute to load the page in the browser, pinging was faster..

[Joe[y]+]

hey. like this a lot. i don't understand connie's point above... the white area at the top maximises the reflection effect which i like! (though have you included a psd file for other users?) and the image code seems fine.

my only gripes with it are:

1) the naviation in the top right is overlapping the white AND grey - i think it would be better if it just resided in the white area.

2) your use of -moz in the css isn't a brilliant idea. but i've been guilty of using the rounded corners - if there is a way to do this in IE as well then i suggest you do that as well or do neither.

[Arabica]

Originally Posted by Joe[y]

hey. like this a lot. i don't understand connie's point above... the white area at the top maximises the reflection effect which i like! (though have you included a psd file for other users?) and the image code seems fine.

Thank you for the commandation.

Originally Posted by Joe[y]

1) the naviation in the top right is overlapping the white AND grey - i think it would be better if it just resided in the white area.

I'm still unsure about the position and will try some alternatives.

Originally Posted by Joe[y]

2) your use of -moz in the css isn't a brilliant idea. but i've been guilty of using the rounded corners - if there is a way to do this in IE as well then i suggest you do that as well or do neither.

Why should I cut (nice) features for the Firefox-Users which IE-Users never will see? I don't see a benefit in loosing this feature.

Actually I still don't get the point of the validation of sourcecode since it is working properly. But I'm an open minded person, so probably you can tell me reasons I don't see ;-)

greetz
Arabica

[Joe[y]+]

Originally Posted by Arabica

Why should I cut (nice) features for the Firefox-Users which IE-Users never will see? I don't see a benefit in loosing this feature.

a lot of my css doesn't validate either! that's not my point. the only thing i preach to be honest with web design is valid html and cross-browser compatibility.

something small like a smooth border on link titles isn't going to do much harm - but i just wanted to make a point that it isn't good practice. there are just as many IE users out there as firefox - i hate it when sites stop rendering right in IE (even though i'm a firefox user) - i don't see why IE users should suffer a lesser web experience.

[Arabica]

okay, than I just got you wrong.

Since I'm using a Mac I'm kind of used to it that A LOT pages don't render right. Some pages don't even let me see its content. In most cases I can live with that pretty well. The important pages for me work well.

From my point of view the expereince ist not less, because my images show right ;-) Just kidden ... I know exactly what you mean. You convinced me and I'll have a look to find something similar for my PC-friends using IE.

In my job I end up pretty often like shown in this comic http://www.ok-cancel.com/comic/114.html

greetings coming from
Arabica

well,

I just have the experience that some pages don't render well like they should do because of invalid html and/or CSS
I spent a lot of times searching for errors or reasons for some phenomons and later I found that it was misinterpreted because of faulty CSS code or faulty HMTL code

so now, when somebody asks me for help or asks my opinion, I just start to validate first, it is not because of error tolerance, it is because of error elimination

when I am sure that the code is valid, syntactically correct, then I can concentrate on finetuning the rest of the page

you can't imagine how many errors or un-understandable things happen because of faulty code for really other elements in the page...

that's why I always insist on validating before any other steps...

[Arabica]

Hi Connie,
I kow exactly waht you're talking about. I worked 6 years as a interface designer and web-programmer. I'm really glad that I don't have to care about web-programming 'seriously'. And two years is pretty long in times of web-programming. I also forgot a lot.
But doing these things in my spare time is still fun.

Grüße aus der Hauptstadt von
Arabica