The John Carroll School

this is a very nice site and i applaud the reviewer for the brief history lesson. reminds me of choate university, that shan inman did. i wonder if he did this one also. it has that syle going one. very nice.

It definitely carries Silverpoint's style which is absolutely beautiful. I believe Shaun Inman has left Silverpoint, but it doesn't seem to have had too much of an effect on their work (no offense to Mr. Inman).

I especially like the navigation although I would have had some separation between the options or on their hovers.

Overall, a fantastic and very complete work.

Interesting stuff.

Just a note: The menu bar has a hard time rendering properly with Safari. It flashes in and out quick a bit.

ah and there the answer lies often times ( i know this from experience) you learn or create a style from working with other designers. as you see there work and they see yours you tend to integrate different styles and they do also, almost untill you can pick out distinctive traits in each designer that are similar.

I am sure if Inman worked for the company for any length of time he rubbed off on the design team and vise versa.

again nice design.

The menu has a hard time with Firefox 1.0.7 on Linux as well, can't guess what am I selecting.. ;-(

Great design! I love this grid, the way everything has its own place on the page.

I appreciate the way it works without Javascript - I had to turn it off because of the Flash always-on-top problem on Linux. It still works perfect, they didn't piss me off only because statistically I don't exist ;)

The only thing I would change is page width - I'd like to see 'em' based version, because now search field moves to new line and hides under the header image when I scale font size up to comfortable.

Very nice, love the colors. Only wish the News pages had links to the most recent items or to an archives similar to that on other pages (i.e. Principals page).

BTW, seems Shaun did work on this one. I see his naming conventions all through the Javascripts "SI_windowOpen() v1.0". :)

Nice and tight.

However a lot of flickering in the menu when using Safari...

Safari doesn't like Flash, there's no much one can do to avoid flickering...

Regarding the font sizing and the horizontal background image staying fixed – this could be easily solved by background-position specified in ems.

Nice to see there's non-flash fallback, but the client-side developer working on the site might also check the non-JavaScript IE scenario.

Overall, nice design – another Silverpoint classic.

I can't say I like it. I can say it appears to be well thought out and all of the style is very consistent.

Personally, and this is just me, the site feels very awkward. I don’t care for how some of the elements line up. It just seems like its square for the sake of squares.

I do like the typography, however, and I think the use of color and accents was very well done. The more I look it over the more I appreciate its uniqueness, but at the end of the day I don’t think it’s a route I’ll follow.

Thumbs up on the history lesson though ;)

Thanks to Lea for a well-researched review!

A bit late to our own party here, but I wanted to offer a quick response regarding the dropdowns in Safari problems.

As maratz correctly pointed out, there seem to be some issues we couldn't solve with dropdowns over Flash in Safari (as well as versions below 1.5, I believe, of Firefox). In the end, when faced with the decision to either disable dropdowns for Mac users altogether, or leave them in a slightly problematic state for Safari users, we decided to keep them. They work well in Firefox 1.5 on the Mac, and do to a certain extent in Safari, and we felt like the benefits outweighed the risks.

And for the record -- while Shaun left Silverpoint before this project went into production, how can you work with a guy like that and not have the genius rub off a bit? :)

MT

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This is a very nice site and it has that syle going one very nice.

I appreciate the way it works without Javascript - I had to turn it off because of the Flash always-on-top problem on Linux. It still works perfect, they didn't piss me off only because statistically I don't exist ;)

The menu bar seems to render just fine on my end.