New Church Site

[rabsaul]

You did a nice job and gave me a different way to look at design. That's refreshing after too many two column, center aligned boxes with rounded corners on everything.

I can see how some people might think there's more that they can't see off the right side. But at least you got them to stay on the page long enough to try. And putting the content on the left seems to take care of that problem anyway. I really like it.

Glad to hear. I'm slowly learning how to think outside the box without breaking the rules of design. Hopefully, I'll get there.

One question. Does your "secret word" work to stop spam? It seems more accessible (good accessible) than the captcha in WB 2.6, that I've been using.

Well, it's a bit hard to say, since I've gone to this system fairly recently. My biggest motivation wasn't actually spam, but to prevent bots from doing injections, which is a bigger security risk.

At any rate, my newer email addresses don't seem to be getting as much spam, if any, but that may be simply because they haven't been "out there" as long. We'll see.

[mysticcowboy]

Thanks. I know some people said it threw them off (thinking there was more page they couldn't get to), but I was trying to break out of the predictable box.

You did a nice job and gave me a different way to look at design. That's refreshing after too many two column, center aligned boxes with rounded corners on everything.

I can see how some people might think there's more that they can't see off the right side. But at least you got them to stay on the page long enough to try. And putting the content on the left seems to take care of that problem anyway. I really like it.

One question. Does your "secret word" work to stop spam? It seems more accessible (good accessible) than the captcha in WB 2.6, that I've been using.

[rabsaul]

Very, very nice. I love your use of color, and like Klaus, I think it's a good touch to not round off the corners on the right edge of your page.

Thanks. I know some people said it threw them off (thinking there was more page they couldn't get to), but I was trying to break out of the predictable box.

I would strongly recommend breaking the About Us page into several sub-pages and putting the essay on one of them. As a former seminary student, I understand that it's the kind of things that ministers, and only ministers, love. For the rest of us it should buried a layer deeper.  It's just overwhelming where it is.

Well, I tend to agree somewhat, but it's not my site. That sort of thing has really nothing to do with me; I provided a general direction and gave the client a head start. After that, site structure and content is completely in the client's hands.

[mysticcowboy]

Very, very nice. I love your use of color, and like Klaus, I think it's a good touch to not round off the corners on the right edge of your page.

I would strongly recommend breaking the About Us page into several sub-pages and putting the essay on one of them. As a former seminary student, I understand that it's the kind of things that ministers, and only ministers, love. For the rest of us it should buried a layer deeper.  It's just overwhelming where it is.

[Vincent]

I think you did a good job. 
I'm curious to see the next ones.
Regards,

Vincent

[rabsaul]

Just a note that the client gave this the thumbs-up today, so I'm all done. Not award-winning, but I think it turned out pretty well.

Two more sites, coming up in the next couple of weeks....

[kweitzel]

the block display was the way to go ...

cheers

Klaus

[rabsaul]

the design of the navbar needs some tweaking though, it seems to be too tight together for the hoover.

I tweaked that. Gave it a block display on the links too. Trying to decide if I should add borders or leave well enough alone.... 

[rabsaul]

nice stuff ... I like the idea of "not closing" the design to the right ...

the design of the navbar needs some tweaking though, it seems to be too tight together for the hoover. There is some options over at css.maxdesign.com.au in the listsection, one of them also had a link to some changing css background images ... have a look

Thanks for looking and commenting, Klaus!

I know what you mean about "tight." I should probably put some bottom margins on the li's.

I'm familiar enough with doing CSS bg images - I've done them many times. But I don't really want that here.

[kweitzel]

nice stuff ... I like the idea of "not closing" the design to the right ...

the design of the navbar needs some tweaking though, it seems to be too tight together for the hoover. There is some options over at css.maxdesign.com.au in the listsection, one of them also had a link to some changing css background images ... have a look

cheers

Klaus

[rabsaul]

http://www.ccpclex.org/

I've still got a couple of things to get working (the on-state for the home link in the top nav doesn't work yet, and the search engine isn't working in Internet Explorer for some reason). And I'm linking at pictures with the idea of putting a photo underneath the right column nav. But otherwise it's pretty much ready to turn over to the client. (Some $$ for WB as soon as I get paid!)