Updated Website Crit
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Hello everyone! After a brief hiatus from the community for business and personal reasons, I'm hoping to become more active in the discussions again. To get myself active again, I was hoping you guys could give me a quick critique.
My client came to me with this old website: http://www.zehfussdogtraining.com and asked if I could update it for him so that he would be able to add things to it himself. He also wanted to be able to blog without having to use the separate GoDaddy blogging interface he had been using. He really liked the design of his old website and didn't want to deviate from it too much. I had to agree that the design itself was pretty sharp, it didn't need that much changing in itself, but the actual build and layout of the site was pretty outdated. So I went with a custom Wordpress theme as I usually do when clients express the need to update themselves (usually small business owners) and gave him this: http://zehfussdogtraining.com/happypuppies/ He is very pleased with it and with the new features I've added, such as the embedded Youtube videos and channel and the ease of navigation. I just wanted to make sure from my fellow designers that there are no glaring faults, problems, or things that are broken. Not really looking for a crit on the "look and feel," but more on layout and code issues. Thanks so much guys! Great to be back! -
Are we supposed to be reaching a 404 page?
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Haha nope, sorry, we went live about 20 minutes ago. You can't see the old website anymore, but the new one is now at http://zehfussdogtraining.com
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Links work and I assume contact form works. That is all you wanted to know?
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Small point, but on the main navigation (latest Chrome on the Mac) if I hover over 'about us' for example and then move the mouse down, the menu appears on hover but disappears before I can select anything from it. I'm guessing the is a gap between the various nest ULs. If I move the mouse quicker then sometimes I can get to the menu options.
cheers -
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Just in case anyone else ever has this problem, iframes are meant to be "on top" of other content, so no amount of changing z-index will fix it. Here is the solution: http://www.stampede-design.com/blog/2011/06/dropdown-menu-hidden-behind/
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Strange that youtube is pushing an iframe as default embed method, but you could try the following code:
[object width="420" height="315"]
[param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9sjOF33Qumg?version=3&hl=nl_NL"][/param]
[param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"][/param]
[param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"][/param]
[embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9sjOF33Qumg?version=3&hl=nl_NL" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"][/embed]
[/object]
Which is the old embed code. Obviously you should change ][ to >< because I could not just paste the code here.
Netsmith means something else by the way, not the overlap issue but the fact that you have a menu with submenuitems, and when you try to go from the main li item (eg About us) to a submenu, there is a one-pixel high gap between main menu item and submenu item. If you gl slowly with your mouse, the mouse will be in the gap between those two and the menu will disappear. Fast mousing is a workaround but not a solution, something is off with your margins. Try setting a background color on the menu links and you will quite likely see the gap. -
On the menu/youtube bug we had the same thing a while back. Messed around with zindexes and allsorts but in the end all that was needed was adding [param name=”wmode” value=”transparent” /] and that sorted it.
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Also, the form looks out of alignment on this page: http://zehfussdogtraining.com/contact/ in chrome. -
Thanks Bohnna! The form should be centered, I checked in Chrome and it is. I'll admit I'm not happy with the placement, but if that's what you're seeing it's "correct." I need to play with it a bit more.
