New Site Live
Today saw the go live for www.gocalne.org.uk. I designed the site well over a year ago, before I was self-employed, and it is only now that the client (a charity promoting use of secondary forms of transport) has got copy to me and the site has gone live. To be honest, I thought it was dead in the water but it's come good in the end.
They wanted a very simple, informational site and that is exactly what they got (I think). It's not visual dynamite but it works. Let me know what you think.
From a purely techy point of view, I probably wouldn’t have used the linebreak in the homelinks (.homelink p strong {display:block;} would fix it) and might have tried to find a more bulletproof way of doing the navigation (it breaks slighly when you increase the font size - still works fine though). Perhaps chuck a bit of velvia-stylee on the images too.
I’m nitpicking though. I really like the design (though I told you that back when you first did it) and the coding looks lovely and clean (apart from the odd unencoded ampersand). Nicely done sir.
December 12th, 2005 at 6:18 pmThe nav was a real PITA to get working that well so I’ll leave it as is for now! Any particular reason why the line break in the homelink is a bad idea?
Cheers for the compliments though. I don’t really find the design that inspiring but it was what they wanted. The image on the homepage is deliberately subdued so as not to distract too much from the copy - it looked a bit heavy (man) in its original state.
December 13th, 2005 at 11:51 amNice little site, but agree about the lack of inspiration. It’s a bit like that thinkdrastic site. Always posts links to stuff that everyone’s already seen.
December 13th, 2005 at 4:08 pmIt’s just me taking my sentantic pedantics to the nth degree. A
December 13th, 2005 at 7:44 pmbrelement is purely presentational (with a few exceptions), so doesn’t really belong there. Just nitpicking really