#8 Papillon | 2007-05-23 07:41
SysOp,
I like the way the comment fields change colour; it is easier to see where one is going. It's also great not to have the comment field running into the rest of the website like it used to (this may not have happened for others -- I use Firefox). And the 'clickable heading', which leads people back out of individual articles to the entire blog, makes navigation a whole lot easier.
That said, here are a few suggestions to improve readability and help us get the fire roaring:
1) Greater contrast would be lovely. Likewise, please increase the size of the font a touch (if I, a young one, am having difficulty reading this blog... well, you know!).
2) It would be great to connect Bob's blog with his 'main' page. Having a portion of the heading go to http://www.whitakeronline.org/ can do this.
3) The sidebar, or perhaps the top of the page, would benefit from having links to the pages about Bob's books.
4) The red/maroon colour is helping already, but I think it would be worthwhile making the link to the National Salvation site more noticeable. This could be achieved by moving it -- to somewhere in the main header or further up the sidebar -- or by keeping it where it is but having the link also embedded in a picture. For the latter, I'd go with this http://www.nationalsalvation.net/images/0701eagle1.jpg since it seems to be the National Salvation logo.
It is great to have someone with whom I can raise these suggestions and know that I have been heard. A lot of people overlook how (perhaps deceivingly) important these little differences can make in improving traffic both to and around websites. I hope my layman's terms aren't too hard to decipher. :)
[Thank you Papillon, ALL comments are taken into consideration, layman is what it should be--we all have to "see" these screens and there's just not a lot of ways to express it. You are echoing some of my concerns, but my preferences are not everyone's and we really don't know until it's up and running. I test in all browsers that I see in the stats for the site except Linux, but all are the latest version except for one laptop and an old '98 with an older version of IE 6 and I never got that "overlay" problem except in an older version of Firefox on someone else's computer. Firefox has real issues that it takes twice to three times longer to load and it doesn't read all the current consortium standards of CSS that are being written. Many are moving to Opera as a browser to not support Microsoft. Opera doesn't support some good plugins, so that's a drawback. Since all my work is web and custom service I could never go without IE 7 on an updated operating system.]