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[The Kernel Loaf]

Is this designed to conform to WCAG guidelines? The text is WAY too big.

[daveofficer]

Originally Posted by The Kernel Loaf

Is this designed to conform to WCAG guidelines? The text is WAY too big.

i have no idea what you're talking about

honestly i'm not a web designer, i just built it using wordpress and a template. what's WCAG? and which text do you mean? looks ok on my screens.

what resolution is your desktop set to?

[The Kernel Loaf]

Originally Posted by daveofficer

i have no idea what you're talking about

honestly i'm not a web designer, i just built it using wordpress and a template. what's WCAG? and which text do you mean? looks ok on my screens.

what resolution is your desktop set to?

Apologies - I should have mentioned that:

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0

In short, it is guidelines for making websites accessible for people with disabilities.

My resolution is 1920 x 1080, and even for that, it is really big.

[daveofficer]

ah fair enough. do you mean the headers or the body text? the body text isn't much different in size from the text on here but i think the headers are maybe a little large. depends on the fonts you have on your computer as well. if you don't have calibri it will revert to tahoma or another sans-serif font and may look naff.

i shall maybe tweak the font sizes a bit. i'm still not sold on the font either.

one thing though, how does text being too big make it less accessible for people with disabilities? surely large clear text is a good thing?

[The Kernel Loaf]

Originally Posted by daveofficer

one thing though, how does text being too big make it less accessible for people with disabilities? surely large clear text is a good thing?

I didn't say it was, I just thought that you were wanting it to be more accessible by having larger text.

One thing I did notice is that you have hyperlinks the same colour as body text, which is a big no-no (you can see it if you hover over it, but it is purely out of chance you realise it is a hyperlink rather than it being obvious at first glance). You might also want to underline to further distinguish them (but adding anchor tags should do this for you, depends on your stylesheet really).

[daveofficer]

Originally Posted by The Kernel Loaf

I didn't say it was, I just thought that you were wanting it to be more accessible by having larger text.

One thing I did notice is that you have hyperlinks the same colour as body text, which is a big no-no (you can see it if you hover over it, but it is purely out of chance you realise it is a hyperlink rather than it being obvious at first glance). You might also want to underline to further distinguish them (but adding anchor tags should do this for you, depends on your stylesheet really).

cool, will have a look at that. it's quite a big learning process for me but it's fun.

[John W]

Originally Posted by daveofficer

click on the ad and i get some money. the advertisers pay different rates but i don't know how that works, so certain ads earn you more money per click.

no one ever clicks them though, i think you need some serious visitor figures before you see a return but it'll hopefully all help towards my goal of doing that for a job rather than my day job just now.

thanks to everyone who's filled out the survey so far, i've already made changes based on what has been said already so keep it coming!

I clicked on a bunch of ads, hope i've helped

[daveofficer]

thanks! though it's not showing any click throughs which is weird. did you go right through to the sites?

[John W]

Yeah, straight through to the homepages, and had a look through a few of them too.

[daveofficer]

ok, i've listened to a lot of the feedback and redesigned the site to give it a much cleaner look.

David Officer Photography

let me know what you all think.