[SLUG] new website feedback

[jamie]

>  Jamie Adams wrote:
>  
>  >I welcome any comments on the site, particularly if there are any layout
>  >issues. I have tested it in Firefox and IE but couldn't get Opera
>  >installed. I will respectfully ignore anything about the aesthetic
>  >design. You can't please everybody. :)
>  >
>  >Anything special anyone would like me to add while i'm having a good
>  >tinker?
>  >
>  Looks nice, like http://www.alistapart.com/
>  

Very like, in fact :) That was the inspiration, along with the version that you did a couple of years back. They are very similar.

>  Some initial comments,
>  
>  I'm not sure about the repeated navigation items and the mailto: link in 
>  the main navbar, and the default font seems a bit small?. 
>  

The reason the navigation is repaeted is that some of the pages will not have the side panel at all, the document pages for example. So I thought it would be good to have the links at the top as well.

>  You can change that (c)SLUG to a proper copyright symbol with © IIRC.

Thanks. I was wondering about that.

>  The irc applet thing seems to have stopped the pages validating.

I'll be making sure all the pages validate before I do anything more with it. I only added the irc thing in the other day. I don't think it's a problem that I can't get round though.
  
>  Not wanting to start a design war; but can't it use a *bit* more fluid 
>  layout? mozilla.org works nice.

Sorry, how do you mean? I like the new mozilla site a lot, but i'm not sure how I can apply the structure to ours.

>  Do you think the current structure/layout is the best idea, from a 
>  design point of view? Shouldn't the main focus be the real life meetings?
>  

Fair point. Would you give me some pointers as to how you think it would be best done?

Cheers very much. I appreciate it.

Jamie

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