Website critique?

[MiniMan13]

www.failedmiserably.com

It will be a site where we will post products or things that are failing, and maybe some customer service reports/reviews.

Anyone have anything to say about the layout, style, design?
Thanks.

[Drew Ott]

I think it's a functional layout.

Looks nice visually.

I also like the concept.

[ConspiracyPenguin]

I think the layout is good (a little littered with the left side bar, but it's a blog layout so I can;t really complain) It looks nice (colors, etc) and I like the idea of the whole thing. Overall pretty good.

[MiniMan13]

Thanks guys!
If anyone has any customer support horror stories, submit them!

[Kirk Gillock]

Awesome! It looks really nice. Good luck with the site. :thumbsup:

[Anhar Miah]

Very good, the only thing I would say is use a liquid layout, basically as users with higher resolution screens the content seems to be placed to the left with a lot of empty space to the right,

the trick is in the CSS style sheet to create a single DIV containter which you make center, the inerted container should be set to


align: left;

then in the body parameters you set it too center, that way no matter what resolution your website will look perfect, as the empty space will be evenly spread either side.

if you want more info I'll dig out the tutorials.

Anhar

[MiniMan13]

Hmm, Anhar it only seems to be going to the left on non standards compliant browsers, firefox 2, and 3 work fine.

[Anhar Miah]

yes I just tested it under firefox its fine,however IE users will be having the problem, using the suggested method works on all browsers.

[Ming]

If one were to add up all the development-hours ever spent tweaking code specifically to get CSS to look okay on IE it would be > 1,000,000 years.

I completely made that up, but feel free to use it.

[MiniMan13]

Yea IE6 Is Absolutely horrible, 7 is ok, but pages still render very different than expected.
Oh and Anhar, ill look into making it work in IE6 / 7 when i get off work today :)

[Anhar Miah]

@ Ming, lol the sentiment is not far off the truth! :D

MiniMan keep us posted.

[MiniMan13]

Anhar, im afraid to report, i tried to center it in IE, but it ended up centering everything, and all the text aswell, so i just put a get firefox link on the page instead. :-D

[Anhar Miah]

yes, thats similar problem I had too, the trick is to make a container "wrapper" which using "align-text: center" (on the "body {}" CSS,) THEN for the container DIV you simply put "align-text: left" and bingo it should now be Centered BUT everthing else should remain the same, hold on let me get the tutorial link (its another IE workround grrr):

try:

http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2004/09/08/centering.html

and also:

http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/center/

try them, it worked for me tested under IE7 and FireFox