Kritikal.com Relaunch

[\Kritikal\]

Well folks, this time around I've relaunched my site with WordPress as my backend. I've done some hackery to create a template that's pretty darn close to my original design. My aim is to update at least once a day with some cool site, project or otherwise that I find useful. Any topics that you'd like to see covered please let me know and I'll do the research and make a post about it.

http://www.kritikal.com/

[Allen]

Looks really good!!

[Leprakawn]

Takes a minute to load (cable connection here at 0550), but it looks pretty good overall! However, your contact form does not work. Uh-oh, another oops!

[\Kritikal\]

I know. I haven't had time to get WP to play nice with custom PHP
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Originally Posted by Leprakawn

However, your contact form does not work.

[curtiss]

I really like the layout. Very clean and simple. I don't envy you for trying to mess around and integrate WordPress into your entire site. I've never played with it too much, but I know Allen banged his head against the wall numerous times just trying to get the HTMLCenter Blog integrated with the rest of this site.

A few suggestions (or comments, rather):
1) Your quote blocks, while looking just fine on most monitors, are extremely hard to read on good quality, high-resolution monitors. I just started a new job, and they got me a very nice 19" gateway LCD monitor and I have noticed over the last few days just how difficult it is to read bright text on a bright background. I've never had that problem on my other monitors, because the colors are all so dull on them. However, when viewing sites on a good quality monitor, I've discovered just how bright colors can really be on a monitor, and found it very difficult to read some things.
Anyway, so you might want to play with the colors of your quote blocks a bit in order to make them more readable on high resolution monitors.
2) The page doesn't properly scale down to 800 x 600 resolution. I think it's because your banner image is about 20 pixels too wide in order to fit in an 800x600 resolution. Other than that, your site scales extremely well to different resolutions, and I am impressed by that. However, like I said, when you scale your browser down to 800 x 600 (if you don't already have it installed, I recommend installing the Web Developer Toolbar in Firefox), the page is slightly too big to fit in the browser without scrolling horizontally.

[\Kritikal\]

Thanks for the review. Yeah, my old Dell LCD is kind of dim so the blockquotes look good to me. I'll make a change to darken the blue a bit more.

As for the resolution, Since I relaunched the site feedburner has only picked up one person with a 800x600 resolution and that was me on my old laptop. I think if I start seeing more people with that res hitting the site I'll make a move to adapt it. For now though, I'm going to leave it.

[Allen]

As someone who fought long and hard for 600 width back in the 90s, then 100%, then 800, I now believe the standard is about 950.

Make sure it prints if it needs to. I hate receipts that don't print.