Boyscout site let me know your comments

[Greg]

Hi All,

Posting a site that I have built, am wanting to hear your comments? Once you get past our homepage want to
know if you like the the dropdown menu and if they worked
ok for you ...and if you know of better menu's that look and
work good on all browsers. I know that it is bad design to
put coming soon and I have a couple of those I plan on removing.
But give me all or any comments you have.

below is the site:

http://www16.brinkster.com/troop230/troop230.html

Dont be easy on me let me have it and if your really like
anything let me know what to keep too.

Thanks!

[Zero Angel]

It usually a bad idea to mix red, green or blue together (ie: red text on blue background), its very hard on the eyes.

The site is also not very consistent. The abrupt change in background colors is a bit shocking to the eyes.

The 'click to expand' script is not needed for a page that only links to other pages. You might want to have a fully expanded menu with headings instead.

Some of the pages lack organization. Try grouping links together and keep that structure throughout your pages.

[DCElliott]

Just for fun, put this as the opening list tag just before "WHO WE ARE"
<l style="direction: rtl;"> You will then have the bullets aligned along the edge of the middle graphic.

You have several interface styles and "navigation widgets" - stay consistent - there should not be jarring changes from one page to another.

[Greg]

Thanks zero and DC, I will be working on zero comments
and DC I put your line in but I don't see a change. Its in there
now?

[DCElliott]

It displays as intended in Netscape 7, but only because Netscape was more forgiving of bad code :p

You should have something like this (using ul instead of l):
<ul style="direction: rtl; list-style-image:url(trefoil.gif);font-size:smaller;"><li><a href ="aau.asp">!WHO WE ARE</a></li>
<li><a href ="troopinfo.asp">TROOP INFO</a></li>
<li><a href ="ac.asp">ACTIVITIES</a></li>
<li><a href ="http://www.pack231.org/">CUB SCOUT PACK 231</a></li>
</ul>I've attached a pic of the intended effect. Notice also that I have replaced the bullet with the scout trefoil image (not a good one - needs to be smaller) to demonstrate what else you can do with the style attribute of the ul tag.

You need to be more consistent with closing your codes - your first list didn't appear to be closed and, although <li> doesen't HAVE to be closed, if you do xhtml in the future all tags MUST be closed and in lower case. So, get in the habit of closing all codes.

[Greg]

Thanks DC the u made it work.

Are back buttons not used that much because of back buttons
on browsers?

[DCElliott]

Back buttons on browsers or use of [backspace] key (which Netscape now supports as well). It is not really needed on the page itself.

I edited my previous post, there is some more stuff there to think about. You need to change your other list to <ul> as well. <l> by itself is giving you a compact list style, wrapping under the bullet rather than squared. Oh, BTW, when you use the direction:rtl style, you have to put your ending punctuation at the beginning of the sentance!! Weird, eh?

On a personal note, I lived in Bloomington Ind. for a year when I was ~14. Was in Scouts there. Remember camping in Hoosier nat'l forest and swimming in Monroe Resevoir. Good times :)

[Greg]

you have to put your ending punctuation at the beginning of the sentance!! Weird, eh?

Yeah that is Weird, Hey Like the eagle in there instead of the dot!

We have camp in bloomington, that summer camp Ransburg.

[DCElliott]

Here is a trefoil bullet that you might consider using. I looked on the web, but most of the symbols are too big and don't resize well. It is a transparent gif so you can use it on most any background.

To make it your bullet, save the trefoil.gif in the same directory, and then use this as your <ul style="direction: rtl; list-style-image:url(trefoil.gif);">on the left and <ul style="list-style-image:url(trefoil.gif);". on the right