Sites under development and under review
lay it to the meat grinder

1: http://www.bglltd.com
2: http://www.afrinvest.com

My primary goal is to build very minimalist websites that deliver a message precisely and functions properly,  so alos look at those aspects as well.

Patiently awaiting your suggestions and flaming if need be

here's my 2 cents. By the way, I would call what I am about to say constructive criticism, as opposed to flaming

Rollovers (Both) - Try and apply text and not images

Links (BGL) - On the left nav bar, make the links such that when a user hovers, they know it is a link and will go somewhere (underline, color change, etc)

Centre Image (BGL) - at 114Kb, I would say it is too large. Consider optimizing it. Photoshop does a pretty good job with that.

Printer Friendly Version (BGL) - If you use CSS, you can implement a printer stylesheet. That way, you don't have to maintain duplicate code per page coded => Better maintainability

Rollovers (Afrinvest) - Some menus have a submenu, which if I were to remove my mouse, still stays. Consider using the javascript timeout function so that a few milliseconds after I remove my mouse, it disappears.

If you are concerned with SEO, remove the frame from the main page of BGL.

That's all I have. Design-wise, kudos

I think you used too few colors / formatting on BGL.Most of your links are the same color as your text -- green. my2cents has said it all for the remaining comments I have.

Amazing, and i thought i had it all covered. will get back to work on those suggestions. thanks guyz, especially for the

Printer Friendly Version (BGL) - If you use CSS, you can implement a printer stylesheet. That way, you don't have to maintain duplicate code per page coded => Better maintainability

I do not know much Css cept for font formatting. I was planning to use ASP to read the webpage to the point where the text portion starts and display that insteed. but i think Css is a lot simpler.

As for the Green, the client is obsessed with their corporate colors, so much they decided they did not want color pictures. somethings you cannot change.

I really appreciate yoru comments. thanks

Nice site man nice one ! but that BGL stuff the login, the Form is kind of long and it should be center. huh,  but the site is kool sha .

For printing, you don't need much. I see you have this:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="bgl.css">

If you changed it to

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="bgl.css" media="screen">

It'd only show up that way on screen. If you want to add a print stylesheet just say

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="bgl.css" media="print">

I'm sorry if I'm a very bad "explainer" but if you visited http://books.zatechcorp.com and tried to print, then examined my html you should get the idea.

my guy
not bad, not bad at all
keep up the good work

@Zahymaka thanks for the tip. i did not know CSS could do that

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="bgl.css" media="print">

@smartsoft
trying to re-organize the layout for the register and login form

Hey. We're one big family. I really enjoy the discussions with you and my2cents. By the way, would you mind contributing to this similar thread?

i like the sites man. unlike most nigerian made sites its clean and professional looking.
only thing I dont like is just because it has to do with nigeria doesnt mean it has to be green and white,
switch up the colors but keep the minimalist approach.

largerwhenindoubt,

One thing Zahymaka forgot to mention is that in order for the CSS to work (assuming you haven't figured it out yet), you will need to:

1) Re-arrange portions of your page (header, footer, content, etc) into logical blocks

2) If you aren't using 100% CSS, then surround chunks of your tables in DIVs

3) In your print stylesheet, set the display property of each of those DIVs to "none". If you visit the last site I coded www.southsouthforum.org, do a print preview. You will notice that I only have the main content on the printed version. Save off my printable stylesheet for formatting if need be.

Like Zahymaka, I am happy that we can all be of service to each other. It does take a web development family to raise a fellow web developer

my2cents

If you visit the last site I coded www.southsouthforum.org, do a print preview./

this is way 2 kool, i should slap myself for avoiding css all along.


el_cij thanks man, inspiration come from top-class non-nigerian sites, like Zahymaka does, its in the integration of the best sides of the websites i like http://www.coolhomepages.com/

just because it has to do with nigeria doesnt mean it has to be green and white

i love Nigeria but wished our flag had a different color or had native designs like SA, nigerians just love their national colors, u should see us at the olympics during the ceremonial march

but little issues, would say more when i get to work on teusday