Website Review and Suggestions

**Norrad** · 04:34 AM

I've just reworked all of my sites and I would appreciate it if I could get some opinions.

My main site is http://www.bangkokdiaries.com, please let me know if you notice any layout problems etc. I'm especially interested in problems diplaying in IE 7 as I use a Mac and cannot test. It's a wordpress blog with multiple authors.

If you get a chance could you also take a look at the sites in my signature and let me know what you think?

**bas** · 05:13 AM

Viewed in IE7

Your boxes have no border-padding space in IE7. I think using a "padding" (no margin!) in these boxes to generate the space would solve it.
The “Get-reviewed” image doesn’t exist, so in FF the alt-text is shown as if it was a normal link, but in IE7 its clearly visible that it’s a not existing image.
In IE 7 the content of your menu-stroke is higher than the stroke itself, so a vertical scrollbar is shown in it. Solve this by using “overflow: none” for the menu-stroke

General comment

Viewed in a smaller browser-window, there appear many scroll-bars. Maybe using the “min-width” CSS property should be interesting.

I didn’t know where I had to look in first place (many boxes with text), but it looks good. A simple but not boring design.

Other sites
Your Darron Beetge website has a problem, you forgot to close your h1-element, so in IE your content-text-style is equal to your title-text-style, and is hanging out your 'layout'.

**vkw91** · 08-07-2007, 05:51 AM

The one thing it is missing is the focus of the content, it seems to be hidden amongst the adverts etc..

I like the freshness of the site though.

**Norrad** · 08-07-2007, 07:42 AM

Thanks for the comments guys. OK, I got the Review Me image working, corrected the unclosed H1 tag on my personal site. Busy fixing the IE7 CSS to fix the padding and scroll bar problems. Will have it updated in an hour or so.

**JamieLewis** · 08-07-2007, 11:34 AM

Clean, consistent design. Nice colour choice, Can't really fault the accessibility. Well done you have clearly taken some time and effort in producing a very well made site, it is a nice change from most.

Jamie

**tomythius** · 08-07-2007, 12:09 PM

Love the colours. Why the big mango?
If I were you I'd de-clutter just a little. Maybe use the top-right for something other than Ads; they don't seem right there. The ones in the body of the page look great, but that box in the top-right... Not sure.

**Mal** · 08-08-2007, 04:40 PM

Quite nice, I don't like the ads when your mouse hovers over a link... but I suppose you have to make something out of a website. Nice and simple, good colours.. it's great!

**dee_el07** · 08-08-2007, 04:53 PM

wow.. I like your site.. everything is quite impressive.. Job well done!

**dudura** · 08-09-2007, 12:41 PM

it is very good

**dlaroche22** · 08-09-2007, 02:00 PM

A couple of things came up in boxes with scrollbars when viewed with IE 7. Both advertisement boxes came up with scrollbars and so did your menu. After correcting this problem i would have to say that your site is very well done.

**tomazws** · 08-09-2007, 07:03 PM

Very clean. Love the orange / green color match.

**goheadtry** · 08-09-2007, 11:29 PM

Melow down the organ and green because that is way to illuminated and burns my eyes

Talkupation would be greatly appreciated

**Norrad** · 04:47 AM

Thanks for all the comments guys. I've reworked the CSS, changed overflow: auto to overflow: hidden. Please let me know if it fixed the scrollbar issues everyone was having.

I am working on a stylesheet switcher that will allow visitors to select a different colour scheme if they don't like the default. I'm sure there is a wordpress plugin to do it. If anyone knows of one, please let me know.

@tomythius - The "Big Mango" is what everyone refers to Bangkok as. Almost like "New York" being callled the big apple.

As for the banner at the top, does anyone have any suggestions on what to put there? I want to get some Thailand related ads there but I'm having difficulty finding ones.

Also, does anyone know of a good "Featured Post" plugin for wordpress? Right now my featured post relies on a simple plugin that I coded to randomly select a post.

**HighVoltage123** · 08-10-2007, 07:02 AM

I like it - good colors, easy navigation

**Norrad** · 08-11-2007, 12:31 AM

Thanks for the comments everyone. Can anyone tell me if they are still having the scrollbar issue that you reported earlier? I hope I managed to nail it.