I would appreciate feedback on http://www.mpaf.org/ It is a completed site, but I am still doing a lot of fiddling. This is my fourth volunteer non-profit website, but it is the first that I have designed without a national site to sort of model after. Thanks for looking.

I like. Overall. But, why you have a logo, then biiiiiiiiig color rectangle and then text? I see that page adapts to different windows sizes, however that part should be tweaked a bit.

About the content, by some artist there should be at least one element besides "email... for more information".

Due to the menus' fixed positioning they become partly cropped in very small browser windows. To avoid this you might give the menus 100% height and "overflow: auto".

The ALT text "cosmetic graphic" seems redundant, IMO an empty ALT="" would be better. The ALT text "M.P.A.F Art Gallery" sounds like the image depicts the gallery colletion, not the gallery building's exterior. See also http://www.htmlhelp.com/feature/art3.htm

Thanks for the input. I have incorporated your suggestions, except for the empty artist pages. Over my objections, the users were insistent that those pages be present for a few weeks to encourage the members who have art hanging in the gallery to contribute photos. The deadline is fast approaching, so I will be able to remove them soon. I agree about the scale of the logo vs the header text. I have increased the the size of the text; when I have the time, I will decrease the size of the logo. Thanks again!

With sadness in my eye for not being closer to Monterey Peninsula, I, so humble and small under the stars, recommend the link:
http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/h/histerius/ and would like to hear a word, non-profit one, about those three small pictures. If you have time.

The content area drops waaay down in IE.

May I ask what version of IE and what screen resolution you are using? It works in my Windows XP, in Firefox 1.5 (Mozilla 5.0), and in Netscape 7.1. It drops in Netscape 6. I appreciate your input.

If you are asking for a critique of the artwork, I am afraid that I cannot help. I am not an artist, but a former computer geek who has migrated to volunteering to build websites for the organizations that I am on the boards of or that friends are involved with. Sorry.

IE6. In fact the right column is under the left column too. I just took a quick look but I didn't see you had done anything to compensate for IE's lack of support for 'position: fixed' which would explain it.

Well, that explains it. Your description is the way it behaves in Netscape 6 also. I have had position:fixed in and out several times. I will just have to get rid of it. Thanks! It is interesting that none of the users have commented. There is not a high degree of computer literacy among these artists, so they probably just thought they were doing something wrong. I should probably reload IE 6.

I am entirely self-taught and have wished over and over again that I had a mentor. I think I have finally found the place to ask questions. And I am REALLY glad I asked for some input.

No, don't get rid of it. Fouble it up with 'position: absolute' for IE6. The columns won't bew fixed in IE of course, but they will be in the initial position. IIRC it's safe to just do it like this.



There are tricks that actually make fixed work in IE but they aren't that straightforward.

Interested, it works fine for me in FF and IE6.

Looks like it's fixed now.

Thanks for the fix, but I have just made it a practice not to code for browsers. Especially in this instance, where I just added the fixed position for fun. The screens are short enough that there really isn't any reason that the side menus should move with the scroll bar. But it was fun while it lasted...

So no you have the fix but not the fun. I'd say that's coding for browsers.