I almost a little nervous to hear what you guys will say about some of our sites, but here goes...

Please take a look at a few of our current client DNN sites and give me your full and brutal opinion:

http://www.glynn.k12.ga.us - a large school system in Georgia
http://rome.schooldesk.net - a medium sized system in Georgia
http://fannin.k12.ga.us - a small system in Georgia

http://www.schooldesk.net - our main corp site (which seems to be the worst!)

Any positive or critical input would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Rob

Hi Rob

You have been busy.


http://glynn.schooldesk.net/

Nice - I like your vertical menu - but some of the menu text over extends onto the page


http://rome.schooldesk.net/Home/tab...fault.aspx

On the home page the content section is wider than the head section but this is not the case on other pages - is this intended?
The hover text is difficult to see on the vertical menu on child pages.

http://fannin.k12.ga.us/

I like it, I especially like your vertical menu, did you create it from Snapsis?

http://www.schooldesk.net/

Looks good.

Lynn

Hi there,

These sites are really good. They don't look typically dotnetnuke-y!

http://glynn.schooldesk.net/

This site really looks good for a school - it presents the information well and looks very professional. If it were me, I would use a few more subtle gradients to help reduce the effect of solid blocks of colour. For instance, repeat the gradient you have used on your containers around the menu and top of the content area. If you overdo it however it can look really lame, so use your own judgement.

One point - in IE7 on vista the menu areas resize slightly on mouse-over. So if you hover on Board of Education, the block containing BoE gets larger vertically by 1 pixel, pushing everything down! Yikes!! Apart from that, I really think this site is excellent. A phenomenal amount of work.

http://rome.schooldesk.net/Home/tab...fault.aspx

Same comment about the content being wider. Im viewing in IE7 / vista. I would also suggest optimising some of the images:

The yellow blocks containing text show jpeg compression artifacts. You could either use JPeg 100% (95% usually works fine) or for such a low-colour count image, try a GIF. The rounded corners at the header could have the same background as your body tag to make it look truely rounded. Other than that its good!

http://fannin.k12.ga.us/

Nice site. I like the flash as its professional and the menu is extremely good. How did you do the menus on these sites?

I found "Text/Html" titles on the following pages:
http://fannin.k12.ga.us/Instruction/Curriculum/tabid/1256/Default.aspx
http://fannin.k12.ga.us/Nutrition/NutritionStaff/tabid/1123/Default.aspx

This page needs to be brought up to speed with the others:

http://fannin.schooldesk.net/Default.aspx?alias=fannin.schooldesk.net/ef

etc... etc.. I know how it is when your working on these things. So much work to find niggly issues!!!

http://www.schooldesk.net/

This is really professionally styled. Well done! In fact, I was going to suggest for all of your sites using a slight shadow around the main content like in this site, to separate the body from the background of the webpage. If your body is a solid colour block, it can be done simply with jpegs or gifs. If your body is a gradient, well you have to break out the pngs then.

Good work