www.illinoislegalaidonline.org

submike · Post by **submike** » Fri 2. Sep 2005, 18:31

I just updated our organization website. Check it out and let me know what you think.

http://www.illinoislegalaidonline.org/

Thanks,
Mike

ff123 · Post by **ff123** » Fri 2. Sep 2005, 20:00

This website belongs to the top 10 of most beautiful phpwcms websites so far. Simply excellent!

Perhaps tou can tell wihich special elements, mods you used for this site.

submike · Post by **submike** » Fri 2. Sep 2005, 21:18

Thanks for the compliment. I'll try and post some documentation next week. Until then, have a good weekend.

grontas · Post by **grontas** » Fri 2. Sep 2005, 21:44

Yes sir! Clear lovely design and fast as light.

Very proffesional work

Respect

ps:only one note. I notice a delay to the swapimages when i roll over the mouse. Maybe you can use a flash menu instead of swap images.

submike · Post by **submike** » Fri 2. Sep 2005, 22:08

Grontas, thanks for the compliment plus the swapimages issue. I forgot to add the onLoad Preload Images script. Thanks for reminding me.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Sat 3. Sep 2005, 02:25

submike, I think you did a great job with the site. It has "that elusive elegance" to it that is difficult to create. A few tiny things I noticed are:
1. the blue, Flash banner on the homepage is about 3px narrower than the 3 black columns beneath it
2. a few of the pages have about an 8px gap in the upper right of the sub-nav area - http://www.illinoislegalaidonline.org/i ... p?research, for example

Sorry to be picky, but the site is so great I thought you'd want to know. Maybe these things only show up in IE 6. I think the site could really benefit from a sitemap to give people the big picture. Lucky for all of us, it's one of the content parts. Also, I'm surprised you didn't build it with version 1.2.5-DEV, as it has many more features and is more stable than RC 1.1.

Two thumbs up!

trip · Post by **trip** » Mon 5. Sep 2005, 09:51

Very nice...
from here the site is lightning fast

The site shows that with a little thought the design can really work in unique ways....

My only suggestion would be to have the flash blue header as a gif/jpeg just in case no one has flash installed....

You can refer them to a page mentioning that they need flash... instead of a blank block

TriP

Paradroid · Post by **Paradroid** » Mon 5. Sep 2005, 15:39

Hi Mike,

absolutely great design ! I love the simplicity and elegance of your design. WOW !

It is always a pleasure to see what can be done with phpWCMS.

Keep up the good work.

micael · Post by **micael** » Mon 5. Sep 2005, 15:39

nice update submike,
very clean.

submike · Post by **submike** » Tue 6. Sep 2005, 17:02

Ben, thanks for the compliments and letting me know about the layout glitches.

This redesign was a bit rushed, so there were bound to be a couple of errors. I admit I only checked the site out in Mozilla. It should now appear the same across the board (PC - IE, Mozilla, Netscape; MAC - Safari, IE(?), Mozilla(?)).

Trip, thanks for pointing out the flash issue. I need to code a Flash version sniffer into the flash file to check for the Flash 6 plug-in.

I have to run. If anyone has any questions, let me know and I will try to document what I did.

Thanks again for all the compliments and to Oliver Georgi for this great tool.

Mike