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Blog re-design critique wanted!

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former1

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Hi guys,

Now that I'm no longer on a secure network I figured I can finally update my blog more often! So figured I'd re-design it.

A live example can be viewed here!

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The fonts used aren't that wide spread, and if lots of people mention it - i might try and get it all to be rendered with sIFR :)

As mentioned in the title comments and critique are always appreciated!

Cheers,

MI6Labs.

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The design over all is nice :). I would take the time to read your blogs.

However it could be just my eyes but the white text in the dark background hurts my eyes after few minutes of reading italian :p.

You could wrap the contents with a white rectangle, and change the text color to black.

It's nice, I like it.

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With images disabled your visitors will be lost. Try to keep the navigation alive with images turned off. You can accomplish the rollovers without js. CSS will do that just as well. Navigation should be the last aspect to fall apart on a site. With js disabled your navigation will fail.

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Your alt attributes are better suited as title attributes (and put the text in the image into the alt tag, if somebody with images disabled comes to your site, the logo that says "fieldjournal" changes into "Funk Yeah!", Which isn't that helpful, and doesn't help search engines)

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Looks better, but now the menu is even worse (for image disabled users, they won't see anything)

And instead of having 2 separate images for each menu item (the first time you hover over a menu item it vanishes), put both states into the same image, and then move the image around on hover (you could put all the buttons into a single image and do the same thing)

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However it could be just my eyes but the white text in the dark background hurts my eyes after few minutes of reading italian :p.
What language is this?

It's filler text so you can visualize how it would look with content in it. Surprised more people don't know that! :p

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