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By annie-1 on
Hi all,
Our site is the Sanilac County Department of Veteran Affairs in Sanilac County, Michigan. (About 50 miles north of Detroit)
I know the design is a little boring, we were more focused on making the information easy for veterans to find and keeping things simple.
Our main users will be local people and the average age of our veterans is 60.
I'm specifically interested in:
1) Is the site easy to navigate?
2) Does it display properly on your screen?
Of course, ANY other comments, critisisims and suggestions will be whole-heartedly appreciated!
Thanks!
Annie
Comments
Veteran affairs site
It looks nice - solid layout, fairly easy to understand.
The only concern I might raise is that you have two search boxes: the drupal search plus a google search. Could easily be confusing and definitely adds to the overall "business".
Nonetheless, congratulations! Your hard work clearly shows!
Question: Are you using the new Drupal 4.5 candidate?
Yes.......
Question: Are you using the new Drupal 4.5 candidate?
Yes, I am using Drupal 4.5. I originally built the site using 4.3 and changed to 4.5 when we went live as it offered more features.
The site currently runs on the cvs version, but I've been keeping up with the patches and fixes over the last few weeks.
Thank you very much for looking at the site, I really appreciate it!
Annie
Make your text larger
Your main text is probably smaller than comfortable for your target age group (looking at it in ie6/win2k at 1024*768).
Other than that, nice.
Thanks!
Noted, I will make the font size a little bigger. Thank you!
Annie
Busy
Hi,
I went here: http://www.sanilaccountyva.org/?q=event/2004/10/26
It's seriously cluttered. I think you'd benefit by losing some of the blocks, there's just too much going on. Take advantage of taxonomy and filter the content. Start simply, and let the users find what they want.
I like the artwork, make that the centerpiece on the homepage.
Ok, thanks!
Think it's too busy? Ok, I'll get rid of some of the blocks. Thank you for taking the time to check it out :-) --Annie
Check it out in Firefox 1rc a
Check it out in Firefox 1rc and compare it to IE6. It renders properly in IE, but not in Firefox.
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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Layout
Yes I think it's a little bit cluttered. And the login block is not propoerly positioned. Or is there another block before it?
My suggeestion is you seperate the 3 columns more clearly by coloring the left and right sidebars or putting any vertical lines between columns.
Work smarter, not harder!
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Work smarter, not harder!
Thanks Jeff
I appreciate your taking the time to look at the site. I will reduce the clutter and add a border to the sidebars. There isn't another block before the login block, so I'll have to find out why it's not showing up in the right place. Thanks again!
Annie
Mozilla
In Mozilla Firefox, the stylesheet does not load. I was wondering if you were serious when I first saw it (without stylesheet).
Hmmmmmmmmm
I use FireFox at work and it loads fine there, I'll have to investigate this. Thank you!!
Annie
I'm seeing the same issue, th
I'm seeing the same issue, thought I'd let you know
suggestions
On a mac, it renders ok in Safari, but a mess in Camino (a mozilla product).
Way too much clutter on front page. Ditch the weather, the google search, the state and local news, and quotes. And probably chatbox as well. It's darned lonely to click on a chatbox and find no one there. Or consider inviting visitors to a scheduled chat, weekly. If you do so, make sure to stack the deck by recruiting one or two volunteers to commit to being in the chat box at that time. You don't need "upcoming events" in the Main Menu when you have a whole block for events on the right.
You seem to be offering three varieties of search on the front page. Very confusing.
Think carefully about what info is offered at your site, and what your visitors will be looking for. Use taxonomy to create links from front page to sets of nodes that answer various visitor questions.
Screen space is at a premium -- perhaps especially for your visitors? The dog and boy picture is cute, but it shouldn't be taking up so much screen real estate.
Enable clean urls. Then use the path module to give each page a graceful path that forms a logical system.
Thanks!!
I'm having a heck of a time getting my theme to render properly in FireFox. Most of the things you're seeing on the front page are there because the director wants them there, ie weather, stocks, google and other searches. One of the complaints from the older veterans in our target group was that they can't find anything on the net. The director wanted her users to be able to find everything they needed right from the front page. I know, I don't agree with it either from a design standpoint, but the users like it.
Most excellet idea about scheduling weekly chats! I will remove the chatbox block from the front page, as per your suggestion.
Can't enable clean urls yet--our present host doesn't allow it, but I"m working on this too.
Thank you very much for taking the time to look at this site, I really do appreciate it!
Annie
main tree
I used a 1024x768 screen res. and I tried 3 browsers: Mozilla 1.7 Firefox 1.0 and IE 6.
I noticed that with only with Firefox the bullets of the main tree (home page: What we do ... Burial Benefits) it is overlapped to the edge of the left sidebar ...
Federico Olivieri
http://negen.altervista.org
administer > local news?
At the Local News page - http://www.sanilaccountyva.org/?q=aggregator/categories/1 - "administer" is in the breadcrumb - why is that?
When I select admin as an anonymous user, I get an "access denied" page. That is not good. Is this Drupal out-of-the-box behavior?
PS Mac Firefox: all looks fine here.
Not sure.......
At the Local News page - http://www.sanilaccountyva.org/?q=aggregator/categories/1 - "administer" is in the breadcrumb - why is that?
When I select admin as an anonymous user, I get an "access denied" page. That is not good. Is this Drupal out-of-the-box behavior?
PS Mac Firefox: all looks fine here.
Hi,
Thanks for looking. I'm not sure why 'administer' is showing up in the breadcrumb--but think it has something to do with the way I have the menus' configured. I'll get this fixed.
With regard to the 'access denied' page when clicking on user admin, it's that way on purpose--although I need to change the 'access denied' page to be more explainatory. Only registered users are allowed to get information about site users.
Thank you again for looking, I appreciate it!!
Annie