Site Redesign - CURE International

Excellent feedback - thanks for all those points!

You brought up a good point about the tabs - I actually have my anchor element for #nav li.mainNavItem a:link set to "display:block", and a matching height and width defined, so I'm not sure why the whole tab is not clickable. Any suggestions?

nm - I found the culprit on that. A style for the subnav with !important telling it to display:inline.

K, changed each. Let me know if you have any other feedback.

Thanks again!!

Much better. But there's a big issue I didn't see before. I didn't realize I had to click on that arrow to see a drop down menu. The first time I hovered on the button I assumed that it was just decoration.

If other people don't realize it, no one will be using your drop down selections. I would rethink that arrangement. Perhaps make it open automatically on hover and place the arrow on your "up" state so it indicates that your users will expect a drop down menu to occur.

I think the actual drop down menu is interesting with the picture in there. I'm having a hard time deciding if its too much or just different :) Kudos for trying something original though - I've never seen it before!

Hmm...that's a very good point. I'll work with that some more.

Thanks for the kudos, not 100% original though. I saw that invisible children's site had that and we really liked it. We are also developing a sponsorship model for our patients, so eventually the idea of that was on the "Sponsor" tab we are going to have just 3 or 4 images of kids you can sponsor that will drop down.

Awesome - thank you much!

Nate, thank you kindly!!

cool, thanks for the input!

Awesome - thank you Jackie. Any thoughts on how you would make the navigation stand out more?

When you say cut off, you mean off your screen, right? What size screen are you viewing on? (I'd like to know both your screen size in inches, and your screen resolution in pixels). Obviously since there are so many sizes visitors are coming from, there is only so much control you will have. But I'd be interested to know what yours is.

Thanks again!

You are welcome! My resolution is set to 1280x1024 and I have 2 - 19" monitors. Sorry, what I meant by cut off is that the actual word within the green Donate Now button (in the header nav) is getting cut off. It's still within the green button but the word itself is oddly cut off at the bottom. Seems like a css/html thing. Thanks!

Oh, I see. That is funny. Do you have your browser default text set to something larger than 16pt? If so, that might be the culprit, although I don't think it should be. If not, then I'm stumped.

Which OS/browser are you using?

Thanks, Joel

Hi Josh! You must be Stephen's family (son in law?). He told me you saw the last version I posted.

Thanks for your suggestions, I'm certainly open to them and willing to try different things out. These are some of the most thoughtful and helpful responses I've received.

Here are some responses...

1) Good thought, I'll try out the primary green as you've suggested.

2) What is making it look like a link to you, the shadow underneath the text? Is it making it look like an underline?

3) They really are not supposed to be sequetial in any fashion. The purpose for that content is going to be to feature our monthly appeals content, or any other current campaigns that are going on. So it's not really going to be sequential.

4) There is a donate option within the first content piece (by the way those four are just mock content for now, likely some or most of them will be used at some point, but those will probably be replaced with content related to whatever our current campaigns are). But you will see the first, second and third slides all have calls to action that can be clicked.

One thing we are trying to avoid is making the donate features too obnoxious. My goal is to have them clear and easy to find, without having too many donate options all over the place. We have to be careful that visitors don't feel like all we want from them is their money. Part of how we are trying to accomplish that is by giving plenty of content to them, without having to give an equal number of ask buttons.

Thanks alot for your input!!

Michael - thanks for your kind and generous words!! I appreciate the encouragement.

When I get a free second or two I def intend to write that article. :) I've been dealing with a dying windows machine the last several weeks and making the switch to a Mac Pro. It is niiiiiiice.

Anyway thanks again!!

Thank you for your input, we are taking it into consideration and making some changes (but they will not appear on this mockup. we are moving into a live dev environment now for php purposes).

Thanks again!!

You are too kind. Thank you!

Cool, thanks for the kind words!!

Yeah, after several suggestions along that same vein, we decided to make it so the sub-nav drops down on hover over the arrow, but that change will not take place on this mockup. We're moving into a live testing environment now.

Thanks again for the input!!!