I can't find the older thread about the new website, so started a new one... The new site looks really pretty but there is a BIG design problem. What seems to have happened is that the designers have forgotten that there is screen space taken up by the OS Start Menu / Task Bar, and also the Browser window and it's toolbars, etc - and also that people each use their web browser and computer differently. Bottom line is that unless you run the browser absolutely full-screen (at 1024x768) , you cannot see the "enter" links on the very first page ! And at 800x600 the site is basically unusable. And remember that Macs don't use the same resolutions, so it may look pretty bad for them too. On the next few pages inside the site, at 800x600 fullscreen or 1024x768 windowed, you don't see that there are extra site sections available. For example, on the Residential page there is a "Security" section that doesn't even appear, and once you get inside you can't scroll the whole "room" to see all the red spots with features ! Worse - if you run over 1024x768 fullscreen, the page "breaks" with a large white area below the main Flash section (above the footer frame), as the content frame has been designed at a fixed resolution. One way of making it a bit better would be to re-enable scrollbars so that the user can at least KNOW that there is some non-visible content. However that is going to be quite hard to do because someone in their wisdom had decided to make the whole interface and content in Macromedia Flash ! You can test it yourselves - but if you need screen captures just give me a yell. Cheers, John PS: The website is important to CIS, so please take this as feedback, not as negativeness. PPS: Detection of User's screen resolution and/or current browser window size might solve it if the Flash resized itself accordingly... but it's going to be very clunky and extremely messy to code so it works on all browsers. EDIT : I just realised that the easy solution is simply to get rid of the frameset - run the content pages in a normal window. Then use SSI to include the footer bar at the bottom of the pages. Effectively, that is how the "temporary" pages in the Technical and Commercial sections are formatted, and they work fine.
