Website Updated - Would like some feedback/opinions

[ctrlfreq]

Here's what I took away...

1) the header is too big - I run at a fairly high resolution, and it still seems to monopolize the page by taking up over 1/3 of it.

2) background / content division - there isn't really a distinction between the color or pattern of the page background and the content area background which makes the page seem like something is missing. You have a very specific width set, which is obvious based on the header and footer, but the rest of the page just seems to be floating over the top of a gray field.

3) emphasis on colors - you want to draw attention to things like links, but right now they're under-emphasized by being closer to the background color than the main text. (ie. "breeding plans" on the available page doesn't make you want to click it)

4) gallery - love simpleviewer because it allows for cursor-based navigation, but it looks out of place due to it's color, borders, and button style.

5) instructions - dig the how-to's, but making them html format would help with continuity. The pdfs are great for printing - don't get rid of them - but lay out the contents, preferably with pictures, in a html format as well.

[Blue Apple Herps]

Took some of your advice ctrlfreq...

Not sure about doing the build instructions as HTML. I'll think about it though. Everything else was very helpful.

[ctrlfreq]

Not sure about doing the build instructions as HTML. I'll think about it though. Everything else was very helpful.

Glad it was helpful - dig the changes by the way. One thing you might want to do is set the css tag min-height on the contentContainer to something in the 400-500 range - that way the pages with very little content will take up more than half the screen.

[Blue Apple Herps]

Glad it was helpful - dig the changes by the way. One thing you might want to do is set the css tag min-height on the contentContainer to something in the 400-500 range - that way the pages with very little content will take up more than half the screen.

Its a template through Rapidweaver, I have a template editor, but there are several .css files, and I've looked through them and haven't seen anything with a "min height" or similar in them. Not to mention that looking all all the CSS code is pretty much meaningless to me.

Maybe I"ll go check out a css book from the library. Because you're right that on those pages it gets too small vertically.

[ctrlfreq]

open the "rw_common/themes/EZ3/styles.css" file and look for this:

#contentContainer {
border-width: 1px;
position: relative;
z-index: 2;
}

and add this line between the brackets:

min-height: 400px;

Adjust to taste on an empty page.

[Blue Apple Herps]

Wow! You rock!

I set it for 450 px. Thanks again!