October 9, 201213 yr Hello everyone, I recently updated my site and was wondering if you could give me some honest feedback on it? here it is: www.northerndiv.com No too honest though...
October 9, 201213 yr The cookie notification is way to intrusive and over the top. Personally i'd have more happening when you hover the main menu items. You've got an random smiley face sitting just outside your wrapper to the right just under the banner. This happened to me once but i can't remember for the life of me why. I take it the footer isn;t currently finished?
October 9, 201213 yr Author Hi Mike, thanks for the thoughts, I need to root out that smiley face you're right and I'll amend the cookie notifer to be shorter and more transparent. I like the idea of some hover effects over the menu items, I'll look into this. What makes you think the footer is not finished?
October 9, 201213 yr Hi Mike, thanks for the thoughts, I need to root out that smiley face you're right and I'll amend the cookie notifer to be shorter and more transparent. I like the idea of some hover effects over the menu items, I'll look into this. What makes you think the footer is not finished? I think it is thanks to the footer being so stretched out and having little content on it. Maybe you can reduce the size of some elements a bit so it doesn't have that stretched out effect. Readability is more than good, everything is big . Everything EXCEPT one of the most important sections of a site --> the menu
October 9, 201213 yr Author Cheers Jo, Ok I'll have a tinker with that footer, are you using IE by any chance?
October 9, 201213 yr Cheers Jo, Ok I'll have a tinker with that footer, are you using IE by any chance? I've tested this in IE, Chrome and firefox with different results but it always looks kinda pale and stretchy
October 9, 201213 yr Author Okey dokey, Ta very much. I ask because I was having an issue with IE8 and font-sizes as I'd used rem. appreciate your help with this, any others welcome.
October 9, 201213 yr Well it's not very semantic but I once used a separated css file for IE and another one for the other browsers
October 9, 201213 yr Author Yeah thats what i've done here to swap the css graph in the about me section and various other bits and bobs.
October 9, 201213 yr Yeah thats what i've done here to swap the css graph in the about me section and various other bits and bobs. There is a much better solutio but unfortunately it is impossible atm xd the removal of IE
October 13, 201213 yr Not a real fan of the font used, I generally just use PTSans or Open Sans (God I love that font ). As far as the layout goes I really like it, but it's weird that the middle part doesn't have a background. I usually use a full wrapper which makes it easier to make it responsive aswell!
October 13, 201213 yr Yeah I dont like the footer sorry. Its far too spaced out and everything seems kinda 'lost' in the footer. I would make the text on the nav more bigger (to fit with the big text on the site) and as Mike suggests have some form of hover effect. Good luck
October 14, 201213 yr <img id="wpstats" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/g.gif?host=www.northerndiv.com&rand=0.11539285560138524&v=ext&j=1%3A1.7&blog=40652217&post=112&ref=http%3A//www.northerndiv.com/" alt=""> That's the smiley face.
October 17, 201213 yr Author Thanks for all your comments on this, I got some time to fix a few issues the other day. The smiley face was from jetpack!
October 18, 201213 yr I don't really like the colour scheme, reminds me of windows 3.1. Also the logo and menu seem a bit lost. It all just seems a little "washed out" for my tastes.
October 18, 201213 yr I like the changes to the nav and footer, but I think the nav looks too spaced and lost now. I also think the colours are a bit too plain now. I agree with kree8or, it does seem a bit plain/washed out now... OItherwise, you are getting there!
October 18, 201213 yr The double sliders underneath the main sliders for me are pointless, the design one doesn't show hardly anything and doesn't link anywhere and the code one is completly pointless. As someone said above the cookie warning is massive, far too big.
October 19, 201213 yr the blog is too overfacing, just loads of text, you should use images with a brief description, and then use a seperate page for the full article and comments. The rest of the borders on the site are 1px except for the footer, I would change that to 1px also. on the about me page, I would use an image for the "pie chart" as it doesn't look to crisp. ...thats just my opinion Edit. Get a favicon on there Edited October 19, 201213 yr by JoshUK
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