Reply to: What do you thin of my new What's on site - www.CraicOn.com

[ITContractor]

Gerry, Where has the ccnet forum gone?

It has been hacked. My host / site builder is looking into it. There's some kind of flake out there who keeps trying to cause trouble. Presuming its the same person he had been posting animal porn previously. He spends quite a lot of time trying to screw it up.

One wishes he would get himself a life.

[Bagpuss]

Gerry, Where has the ccnet forum gone?

[realityhack]

I'm curious to know why all your links are absolute - is there a reason for this?
Also - from a user-centric design pov, I'd be inclined to structure the main page differently - having one-three main news articles and providing a link to an archive, split by months, then taking the left-hand nav across to the middle using more screen real estate - the homepage is too 'vertical'.

Not really fussed about underlining links. If you chose not to it would make the site feel less cluttered, and so long as you adhered to the same style for all links, and had the underline on hover, it wouldn't be a usability problem.

I haven't run it through visicheck but I'm pretty sure it would fail a colour contrast/brightness test.

Otherwise quite a good community noticeboard. Would be enhanced by a forum.

[One Nihilist]

Now, I think your site looks grand as it is....

[ITContractor]

Who was that addressed to OliH?

[OliH]

...and why are you doing this?
O.

[Stan]

I've been advise on my various sites to keep that as it shows people easily what can be clicked on.

Thoroughly agree there, not sure why people are so keen to make it hard to see hyperlinks when that is what makes the web what it is.

[Sockpuppet]

Hmm - I pondered that one on my website, when I looked at other sites it seemed to be 50/50 on the underlined links.

I'm torn between accessibility and colour-blindness issues.

Do I lose the underlines and make the links bold?

a { text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; }

[ITContractor]

I've been advise on my various sites to keep that as it shows people easily what can be clicked on.

Remember that the people reading CraicOn would not be highly computer literate.

[cojak]

Hmm - I pondered that one on my website, when I looked at other sites it seemed to be 50/50 on the underlined links.

I'm torn between accessibility and colour-blindness issues.

Do I lose the underlines and make the links bold?

[Sockpuppet]

Remove the underlines on links.

[ITContractor]

Didn't understand that Hank.

What will that do for me?

[HankWangford]

underline

lose the text-decoration on anchor tags

in css
a {text-decoration:none;}

then
a:hover {style you want on mouseover.....}
a:visited{} etc etc

[ITContractor]

Good advice Meridien.

I should put more info about the area up. The first (and Current) stage is to get it used by local people. The second stage is to make it interesting for thos who have connections with the area.

The third stage is to get people who are interested in coming to Moville.

"I'd appreciate news of the Donegal GAA team and the All Ireland as it progresses".

I did put a report up about Derry City but that was mainly because a local guy plays for them and that was the angle.

I probably would put articles up about Donegal GAA matches especially as I know a couple of guys who are big fans.

I did expect someone to call my asking for advice Spam but this is the business section where people do put up their businesses and ask for advice.

I know that because I made the suggestion for this section in the first place - which was implemented.

So, if anyone else has got any suggestions as to what I could do in terms of content or design pleas let me know.

It is always useful to get input.

[meridian]

How come the "Area Information" section is blank? The ad for The Foyle tells visitors more about the area....

BTW, spent New Years in Fahan and Buncrana. When it storms in Donegal, it really storms!!