Critique request for Seashell
Ganesh
dorayme
<7bc3bb2d-a847-417d...@l35g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
Ganesh <ganeshj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Critique request for seashell.co.in
Be careful of being sued for neck injury due to folk trying to read the
writing in the methodology drawing. Make it a gif or png with
transparent background so that it more elegantly embeds into the nice
beige you have. And fix up the bad English in the main text. If you
write in English you need some friend or colleague to cast an editorial
eye over it. "At Seashell, we try to adopt work processes those are the
best to our abilities" for example is not right. Did you make the words
in the logo? In that case, too. And in the main heading.
You might like to reconsider the amount of vertical space taken up at
the top by your banner. It is OK but that space is important and trips
people into vertical scrolling earlier than is often needed. How to make
alternative arrangements? There is possibly getting rid of separate
banner DIV and H1 and simply having H1, floating the banner left,
perhaps assigning and em width, perhaps 40 or 50 ems for the lot, making
the text a wee bit smaller there perhaps and auto margining H1 to centre.
--
dorayme
John Hosking
> Critique request for [http://seashell.co.in/]
I feel as though I've been through a lot this before, over at alt.html, but
I have no life, so I'll throw a couple of items into the thread, possibly
helping some lurkers out there.
HTML5, huh? Interesting. So now it's experimentally, provisionally valid. I
experimentally, provisionally congratulate you.
Valid CSS (with warnings). Good.
90% font-size. Boo, hisss. Don't you *want* me to read your content? Not
very accessible, and a serious drawback for a firm claiming to offer
accessibility services.
The page reacts well to my upsizing the text, but only when my viewport is
wide enough. Otherwise the words (esp. in the "Services List" sidebar)
start to overflow their allotted space.
Why is the background green? You set the body text to black, but didn't set
the background color at all. What color *should* it be?
This has nothing to do with site design or performance, but what does this:
Pin 400001
down in the contact info block do for me? What can I use this info for?
The English needs repair, as dorayme has noted. Get a native speaker.
--
John
Ganesh
> Be careful of being sued for neck injury due to folk trying to read the
> writing in the methodology drawing.
I did notice it, I will fix it.
>Make it a gif or png with
> transparent background so that it more elegantly embeds into the nice
> beige you have.
Started fixing this
>And fix up the bad English in the main text. If you
> write in English you need some friend or colleague to cast an editorial
> eye over it. "At Seashell, we try to adopt work processes those are the
> best to our abilities" for example is not right.
Currently I will need to re-do the English on my own. May be I will
need to learn it from scratch as it is also hindering my career
growth. I skipped "English Grammar" lessons, as they were beyond my
understanding during school days. But, now I should get them without
problem.
>Did you make the words
> in the logo? In that case, too. And in the main heading.
That sentence is not getting fixed, it keeps sounding bad-to-worse the
more I try to play with it. It seems I will need to use a different
line altogether. But, I will try my best rearranging the words and
correcting it before giving up. May be I will replace that line for
now, and then come back with the corrected line in the future.
> You might like to reconsider the amount of vertical space taken up at
> the top by your banner. It is OK but that space is important and trips
> people into vertical scrolling earlier than is often needed. How to make
> alternative arrangements? There is possibly getting rid of separate
> banner DIV and H1 and simply having H1, floating the banner left,
> perhaps assigning and em width, perhaps 40 or 50 ems for the lot, making
> the text a wee bit smaller there perhaps and auto margining H1 to centre.
Thanks a millions for these hints. I will try fixing all of them. I've
already started with them.
Ganesh
> On Sep 12, 3:41 am, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Be careful of being sued for neck injury due to folk trying to read the
> > writing in the methodology drawing.
>
> I did notice it, I will fix it.
>
> >Make it a gif or png with
> > transparent background so that it more elegantly embeds into the nice
> > beige you have.
>
> Started fixing this
dorayme
<b311a3b6-e32f-490c...@r24g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Ganesh <ganeshj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 12, 7:55 am, Ganesh <ganeshjacha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sep 12, 3:41 am, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > > Be careful of being sued for neck injury due to folk trying to read the
> > > writing in the methodology drawing.
> >
> > I did notice it, I will fix it.
> >
> Fixed
>
Much better!
> > >Make it a gif or png with
> > > transparent background so that it more elegantly embeds into the nice
> > > beige you have.
> >
> > Started fixing this
> Fixed
Better too!
You might have more trouble with the English and I thought I might help
you but *what* you were you saying was so airy and contentless and
dubiously meaningful (there is a rude Australian expression for this)
that I could not continue. I got as far as:
"At Seashell, we make it our main business to identify drawbacks in our
clients previous efforts, using, where appropriate, Kaizen psychology."
Don't use the word "ideology" for this last, it will make you sound like
a nutter.
--
dorayme
Ganesh
> Pin 400001
This stands for "Zip code in many countries". I've added that in a
bracket next to "Pin"
Ganesh
I've removed all the font size adjustments.
Ganesh
> Don't use the word "ideology" for this last
Ganesh
> the background color at all. What color *should* it be?
The design is not corrected for color blind as well
Check:http://seashell.co.in
There are still flaws those you have mentioned. I will be correcting
those as well.
Are there any more flaws?
Ganesh
The design is *now* corrected for color blind as well
Ganesh
> wide enough. Otherwise the words (esp. in the "Services List" sidebar)
> start to overflow their allotted space.
practice. I will keep it that way till I find a better solution.
Ganesh
Set to overflow:auto, it is better than using hidden
Ganesh
> in the logo? In that case, too. And in the main heading.
Changed it.
dorayme
<d43d7f23-a3fe-4b7e...@d15g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
Ganesh <ganeshj...@gmail.com> wrote:
Some people here are not Google Groupers and do not have threaded
newsreaders, best to remind us by supplying your URL each time.
--
dorayme
Ganesh
> In article
> <d43d7f23-a3fe-4b7e-9bc3-1d15ff970...@d15g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
>
> Ganesh <ganeshjacha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sep 12, 3:41 am, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > >Did you make the words
> > > in the logo? In that case, too. And in the main heading.
>
> > Changed it.
>
> Some people here are not Google Groupers and do not have threaded
> newsreaders, best to remind us by supplying your URL each time.
I was not aware of it I will be careful. The website being discussed
is http://seashell.co.in