mysociety/whatdotheyknow — Issue #45: Display issues
Author: dracos
Created: 2012-01-12 10:05:39+00:00
State: open

There is a horizontal scroll bar below c. 1200px, and the header content starts to go off-window.
The body font size is too small - our policy is to stick with the browser default - and the footer and "special notes for this authority" when making a request (the latter seems quite important) are unreadably small. Conversely, I feel the "Who can I request information from?" and "What information has been released?" front page headings are slightly too large, in that reducing them slightly would allow them to fit on one line and move up actual content. Regardless, pixels should not be used for font sizes as Internet Explorer will not resize them when using text sizing.
A font-family of just sans-serif, would be preferable to specifying Arial, so that Mac users with Arial can get Helvetica instead.
The links should provide a hover status that signifies something to the user (colour change, for example).
The search go button is misaligned in Firefox compared with Safari.
The front page "Search" button has a problem with its gradient colouring (other search buttons are similar, so I wondered if it was deliberate but "Start now" is definitely different and looks better).
Dates upon selecting in the calendar shouldn't display as yyyy/mm/dd which isn't a format I've ever seen - yyyy-mm-dd or, as it's a UK-based site, dd/mm/yyyy would be preferable.

It would be good (perhaps as part of this, though some of the above seem important enough that it perhaps shouldn't wait) if the header/footer could be altered to match FixMyTransport/FixMyStreet; this shouldn't affect any of the page contents, would fix some of the issues above and as a bonus provide some responsiveness (though the page content structure would need work to be able to benefit).