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About Us
The Lake Superior Running Club is a website dedicated to serving the online needs of Northeastern Minnesota's running community.
Come here to find out about upcoming races, find results of past races you've run, or just see what's going on in the running world!
Feeling like you don't want to run today? Move your mouse pointer over the runner in the top left corner, and let him inspire you!
Functionality
This web site is a prototype for one to be launched in the Spring of 2005. It is meant as practice run of how the live site will look.
Therefore, most of the web site does not actually function. For instance the real web site will be connected to a database, and provide
information about many upcoming and past races. You will notice that this site, however, only provides information about 5 races, and only
detailed information about 1 race. Also, all searching functionalities are disabled, and you can only search for one runner, and a mediocre one at that!
About This Site
Browsers
This web site has been tested using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and Netscape Navigator 7.2, both running on Windows ME. Further testing needs to be done with older versions of IE and NN, the new Firefox browser, and Macintosh browsers.
Colors
All colors on this web page are web safe. This means all monitors and browsers can display these colors with no dithering or ill effects.
Fonts
All fonts used are standard fonts (Times and Arial) that are available in all browsers. The logo uses Nimbus Sans, which is a non-standard font, but is encased in a png file.
Connection Speed
This site was designed with users having low connection speeds in mind. Only two graphics are included in the site, the runner gif and the logo. All other content is standard text, including the navigator bar. Mouse rollovers are done with Cascading Style Sheets, not image swapping.
Accessibility
The logo image of this site is labeled with an "alt" tag so that users with non-graphical browsers can learn what the content is. The only other image, the runner gif, should be similarly labeled, but the text box that would appear would obscure the view of the runner for viewers with graphics enabled. The runner is a non-essential part of the site, so the "alt" tag is omitted.
Cascading Style Sheets
This site has been designed using Cascading Style Sheets 2.1. All structure of the site in coded in HTML, and all styles in the site (borders, coloring, centering, etc.) are coded in CSS. Also, the design of this site uses tables only when absolutely necessary. Most borders and spacing are done with CSS.
XHTML
This site has been designed with XHTML principles in mind, the future of web development. Accordingly, all HTML keywords are typed in lowercase, all opening tags have a corresponding closing tag, and all values are put in quotes (ex: class="header").
Improvements
The main aspect of the site that needs to be worked on is the width of the web pages. This site was designed on a 19" monitor with 1024 x 768 resolution, which is more real estate than the average viewer will have. Some pages wrap text undesirably when less space is available, particularly the "Runners" page.