new design review?

[jreitz]

please give me your thoughts.

I run a site for a park district (recreation agency). Its huge, like way over 300 pages of stuff. they are very afraid of technology so going dynamic with the whole thing is not worth the fight. I have made several parts dynamic, but the guts of it are just html.
This new design is my attempt to apease them while cleaning it up and giving it a "look"

This is the original site: www.parkfun.com

This is the new mock up: www.parkfun.com/PA2004/aolish-3.htm
and a sub-page: www.parkfun.com/PA2004/aolish-3-subpage.htm

yes I know there are accessabillity issues, and some browser problems, I know my stats REALLY well and we are 97 percent IE 4. Im not real up on to how I make a site work better for sceen sizes, but i looked at it in a few on my pc and was ok with it. Thanks for any thought you all have!

john

[allida77]

Looks much, much better. The only thing that I see is the gradient background you are using. When I usually see these types of backgrounds it helps with the flow of the page. When the gradient begins to end (turn white in your case) then you know that the page is ending. For yours it is always a fixed width so it does not help with the flow of the document. I would try to set the height of the gradients based on the height of the page.

I am using firebird and everything looks ok.

[jreitz]

thanks for taking a look.

youve got a good point there. Only thing is my pages are of all sorts of lengths. and there are hundreds of them, so i need to use a template for all the sub pages.

thanks for the feed back! - john

[mindlessLemming]

Umm.. I like the new design, but it breaks badly on Mozilla. (and prob Firefox & NN7 aswell). Both pages break, the front page's vertical nav. stretches across the whole screen and the sub-page's content starts almost off the screen to the right....
You should download Mozilla and check it out for yourself.

[jreitz]

I DLed mozilla, and you're right on about that odd break. it freaks out a we bit in opera too. however, thankfully NN7 is golden on my PC.

anyone knwo how to check for safari without a mac?:)

thanks for the input!
john

[JFetting]

You can use either BrowserCam or iCapture. I use iCapture because it is free.

http://www.danvine.com/icapture/

[missing-score]

thats quite a nifty tool! ill remember that one!

[jreitz]

yes, a very cool tool. thanks!