A Review of Personal blog/portfolio/stomping ground by Davor Tomic

just a few minor tweaks

  • Davor Tomic

    Davor Tomic

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    • Purpose: 4
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    • Engagement: 3
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    just a few minor tweaks

    Posted on Aug 25, 2009 at 5:51 AM

    Generally it looks nice, I think you did a good job. Although, I would change few things. Maybe it would all look better if the header background would align with the content's left side. This way, when you're watching it on a 1680x1050 px resolution it kind of looks scattered. I would also loose the timestamp from the top right corner because everyone has a clock on their computers so that info is really not so important or relevant. About the navigatiom, I believe it would look better if the tabs had more padding and less margin. I would also change the color of the Heading 3 because it lacks contrast and is therefore very hard to read (especially on low quality LCD screens). Maybe you should reconsider the alignment of your texts because not many people use justified, but rather left. Also, it would look better if the content div wouldn't have such a large right padding. Loose it completely and it would look much better. And finally, I would change the styling of list titles in the footer. Also, it would be better if links actually had different styling for :hover (e.g. underline). I think the base is good and you can make a fine personal website if you do some more work on it ;)

    • Josh Nielsen
      Josh Nielsen commented:
      Posted: on Aug 25, 2009 at 7:09 PM

      thanks a lot for taking the time to give suggestions, I will definitely implement them. When you say to lose the padding completely, you mean to bring the content right next to the sidebar?

    • Davor Tomic
      Davor Tomic commented:
      Posted: on Aug 26, 2009 at 12:31 AM

      something like that, yes. the #content div has a 10px right margin and the #sidebar div has a 10px left margin. that's 20px of space between them and I think that's enough. I like the feeling of enough whitespace, but not if it means that the web looks incoherent ;)