London Acountants Website

Just launched the Gorman Darby site. They’re a new partnership and this is their first venture onto the net.
They wanted it to look fairly conservative, but not old fashioned, so I had to resist the allure of too much eye candy
The site makes extensive use of :
Wayfinder ( top & section menus )
Ditto ( anything with a read more link )
jQuery ( slideshow, menu animation, form validation & Tax calendar slider )
FeedX ( all the news blocks on the left )
Google Widgets ( Stock prices etc. )
Blue & Grey ( everywhere! )
I’ve suggested the client spends time on editing some of the key text make the text a bit punchier.
Open to suggestions, feedback & proof reading.
I haven’t been doing many complete sites over the last year or two, spend most of my time doing development & customisation for designers and their clients.

Hi bunk,

nice site - well done!

Excellent job! It has the right look for an accounting company.

Thumbs up!!

IE @ public work computer:
- The tax calendar gives me parse error when clicking to add ical.
- Some <div class="sub-generic"> floats down over the footer on the left side column
and on the right side column it sticks out to the right E.g.

PAYE and CIS deductions are due for month to 5 September 2009

instead of

PAYE and CIS deductions
are due for month to
5 September 2009

I bet that when I come home to Chrome it looks beautiful.
But you do want it to look good in IE this site!

I like the design, and the effects are impressive, but I don’t think the slide-up works very well. In IE7, it goes away before you can read it unless you have the mouse on it and there’s no way to know that. Since I was moving the mouse around, I assumed that I was making it appear and disappear but couldn’t figure out how. It was a little confusing and distracting.

I would try to put both its appearance and disappearance under user control. It would also be less distracting, IMO, if it faded in in place instead of sliding.

Just my $.02.

Thanks all
@mrhaw So you spotted all those deliberate mistakes! Should all be fixed now.
@BobRay I’ve added a little more time on the duration of the slide up panel.
Just looking at it in IE6 and debating if it’s worthwhile fixing things >:(
Suppose I better, someone will point it out later I guess.