Some feedback wanted

[Samuel van Laere]

Hi group,

could you give me some feedback on the website below, its not in English
though:
http://demo.kubes.nl/
I'm not a designer as in the word designer - can't do anything graphic
related - I just enjoy building websites thats all.

Thank you in advance for your comments.

cheers,
Samuel van Laere

[Samuel van Laere]

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Since its in Dutch I might need to explain that the target audience consists
of blind and low vision people primary.
But we just felt it needs to look nice for any visitor.

Cheers,
Samuel

[Nik Coughlin]

"Samuel van Laere" <webkluns+@+heetemeel+com> wrote in message
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Looks fine, in an understated sort of way. HTML/CSS pretty good too.

Check your background colours, my default background colour (not white, so I
can spot this kind of thing) is showing through in some places where I'd
imagine that you intended for it to be white.

[Samuel van Laere]

"Nik Coughlin" <nrkn...@gmail.com> schreef in bericht
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Hi Nick,

I think the background colours are now fixed.
Thanks for the feedback.

cheers,
Samuel

[Chris Beall]

I like it. Simple, focussed on content, not decoration.

On the anbi page, at 1024 x 768, the text lines are very long for
reading by a sighted person. I'd add some generous margins or use
max-width on the text itself to cut that back a bit.

Chris Beall

[Samuel van Laere]

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Thanks for your feedback.
I've added max-width: 1200px;
Seems to work fine on browsers that support it,
i'm not bothered with those that don't.

cheers,
Samuel

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

That's not the way to do it. 1200px may be wider than comfortable
for some readers and far too narrow for others.

Use max-width: 35em;

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[Samuel van Laere]

"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajo...@gmail.com> schreef in bericht
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> On 2009-12-10, Samuel van Laere wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback.
>> I've added max-width: 1200px;
>> Seems to work fine on browsers that support it,
>> i'm not bothered with those that don't.
>
> That's not the way to do it. 1200px may be wider than comfortable
> for some readers and far too narrow for others.
>
> Use max-width: 35em;
>
>

Hi Chris,

thanks for the feedback.
I've added it though I do use 40em.
It looks nice so far.

cheers,
Samuel

[edgy]

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:59:18 +0100, Samuel van Laere wrote:
>> http://demo.kubes.nl/

>
> Since its in Dutch I might need to explain that the target audience consists
> of blind and low vision people primary.
> But we just felt it needs to look nice for any visitor.
>
> Cheers,
> Samuel

Hi Samuel, if someone is using a browser that reads the webpage to them, I
believe it is good practice to have descriptive links. If they are
tabbing through the links they will get to a point where they just hear
"lees meer, lees meer" etc.

I don't know if it is practical but perhaps the links should read
something like "lees het artikel over slogan toegeving" (sorry for my
terrible Dutch) so that they know what the link is about.

[Samuel van Laere]

"edgy" <hot...@notmail.com> schreef in bericht
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Thanks edgy,

i'll add that bit to, there can never be to much information I guess.
Good tip though.

cheers,
Samuel