March 25, 2005

What’s wrong with the web site template?

Filed under: Web site updates — nancy @ 5:35 pm

Here are some things I’m unhappy with on the current site. Some are things I just didn’t know when I did the design — others show the limitations in my graphic arts sensibilities.

  1. The CSS is a mess. There’s no separate style sheet. The template has some default styles, but then some pages have some things added.
  2. The menus aren’t consistent. They’re actually in an “editable region” in the template — so need to get changed “by hand” on each page. Much better solutions are available.
  3. It’s table based. That’s hard to get away from when supporting lots of browsers — particularly when the user community is not particularly tech savvy. Making it work on older browsers is more important than making it work on cell phones — for now, anyway.
  4. There’s no way to put “highlights” on all the pages (e.g. www.evchallenge.org with the right hand menu. Doing that with a Dreamweaver template is not the best solution, I’m sure, but it works fairly well there.
  5. I opted to let the browser control the text size — and given vision restrictions on some stakeholders would be reluctant to use a fixed font size — but the choices in this (as in so much else of the site) just don’t look good.
  6. The search box is only on the home page. It needs to be integrated into the master template.

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