Website Critique Request

[snaw]

A and your letters are all mixed up to spell nonsense words

[Ardesco]

Thought I'd see what IE6 makes of it.



Literally a random collection of shapes and text all over the place. We're talking 100% messed up.

Good luck!

As you say doesn't render at all properly on IE8, bits of layout all over the place.

And since Internet Explorer is the most common web browser on the planet, isn't it a bit silly to neglect it?

Where did I say I was going to neglect it? I've just not got round to making the IE specific frigs so that it works correctly in the devils own browser....

IE6 will eventually be supported, but it is the spawn of the devil if only it would hurry up and die!!

[DimPrawn]

Where did I say I was going to neglect it? I've just not got round to making the IE specific frigs so that it works correctly in the devils own browser....

IE6 will eventually be supported, but it is the spawn of the devil if only it would hurry up and die!!

Just make it work in Internet Explorer and attach this:

*This site is best viewed with an 800x600 screen and Internet Explorer*
Download the latest version of Internet Explorer HERE

Sorted.

[cojak]

Where did I say I was going to neglect it? I've just not got round to making the IE specific frigs so that it works correctly in the devils own browser....

IE6 will eventually be supported, but it is the spawn of the devil if only it would hurry up and die!!

Prev client had to hand out FF for internet browsing in the end because they had to keep IE6 for SAP reasons*.

*No, I'm not convinced by that argument either...

[TheFaQQer]

Firefox tells me that the page is in Italian and would I like Google to translate it.

Underlining on the tabs is slightly inconsistent - sometimes it goes right to the edge of the tab, sometimes it doesn't.

I'm not keen on underlining the twitter and RSS icons, since the underline goes too far below the icon and leaves a big gap.

Probably needs a caption in the word tag box and the one below it (admins online? Not sure what it shows to be honest)

Are you going to cascade the design through the whole site? The Lazmin page, for example, looks too different from the test one.

Are you going to fill in the box to the right of the submenus (game list, server prices etc.)?

I don't like the underline that appears when you tick the "Remember Me" box.

And it's slightly too wide for my 1280x1024 display.

HTH.

[cojak]

And it's too wide for my 1440 x 900 as well...

[NickFitz]

It's way too wide for me. I don't actually know what the resolution of these ClientOrg monitors is, but that's irrelevant as I don't maximise windows anyway; Chrome dev tools tell me that my window is currently 1044 * 1082.

On div#mainContainer you have:

width: 1280px;
min-width: 1024px;
max-width: 1280px;

As you have set a width of 1280px, the div is never going to get any narrower or wider than that, so the min-width and max-width rules don't apply: they are only of any use if you either leave the width as "auto", or are setting it using another relative unit such as 64em which changes (in terms of the number of pixels it occupies) if the user increases or decreases their browser font-size settings.

Switching to Firefox (1156 * 1082, apparently) so I can use Firebug to disable that width: 1280px; still breaks because of the width of 1260px set on div#centreContainer. Disabling that in turn leaves .bottom > span with a width: 1220px; which is still breaking out. Disabling that finally gets it all fitting widthways, although there is a gap in that div with the three spans. However, now the boxes on the right are being forced down, presumably because of width set on the main content boxes.

I really should be getting back to converting MathML into MathSpeak (as that's what ClientOrg are paying me for), but those are a few bits you might want to look at - unless you actually want a width that is only ever 1280px, in which case the min-width rules can go. I'll try and find time for another look later.

[NickFitz]

Firefox tells me that the page is in Italian and would I like Google to translate it.

Sounds like you've got a broken extension:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Those are the only lang attributes in the page. There's no HTTP headers that are suggesting a language other than English either.

[George Parr]

Since it's also got the most bug-ridden layout engine it makes more sense to get it working in functional browsers first, then apply the few tweaks that IE requires to work properly.

I'm no web developer but I'm still trying to get my site, developed in FF, to render properly in IE6. A lot of corporates do still use IE6.

No wonder people still use tables for layout.

My advice is to test continually in IE6 as you go, it is much easier than trying to fix it afterwards.

[TheFaQQer]

Sounds like you've got a broken extension:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Those are the only lang attributes in the page. There's no HTTP headers that are suggesting a language other than English either.

It's the Google toolbar - disabled it and the message disappeared. Enabled it and got the same message back.

Oh well.