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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The search box is only on the home page. It needs to be integrated into the master template.

