Slightly OT: What do u think of this

Mcploppy © said:

Just going to do some design changes to my dads website (well the walking
part anyway) anybody care to comment on:
http://www.chiadfhear.co.uk/temp/index_2.htm

Just as a starter

I like the header. The sky tends to look that colour most times I'm out..

Bernie

I like the header too..........

Good one...

Richard Webb

Mcploppy © said:

Just going to do some design changes to my dads website (well the walking
part anyway) anybody care to comment on:
http://www.chiadfhear.co.uk/temp/index_2.htm

Very nice indeed. Simple but stylish. It's one of the most elegant
designs I've seen. Wanna make one for me? ;-)

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Mcploppy © said:

Just going to do some design changes to my dads website (well the
walking part anyway) anybody care to comment on:
http://www.chiadfhear.co.uk/temp/index_2.htm

Very nice indeed. Simple but stylish. It's one of the most elegant
designs I've seen. Wanna make one for me? ;-)

Best wishes,

Could do, drop me an e-mail greg at nj2t dot net

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Mcploppy © said:

Just going to do some design changes to my dads website (well the walking
part anyway) anybody care to comment on:
http://www.chiadfhear.co.uk/temp/index_2.htm

Just as a starter

Looks good

If I'm ultra-critical I'd say remove the boots/prints in the top
right. You've established both symbols already making them unecessary
(Less Is More or KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid are the mantras)

Mark
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Mark Cavendish
Cardiff, Wales

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Mcploppy © said:

Just going to do some design changes to my dads website (well the
walking part anyway) anybody care to comment on:
http://www.chiadfhear.co.uk/temp/index_2.htm

Just as a starter

Looks good

If I'm ultra-critical I'd say remove the boots/prints in the top
right. You've established both symbols already making them unecessary
(Less Is More or KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid are the mantras)

Mark
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Mark Cavendish
Cardiff, Wales

Thanks for the reply and comment, the whole site has been completed and can
be seen at http://www.chiadfhear.co.uk

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Mcploppy © said:

Thanks for the reply and comment, the whole site has been completed
and can be seen at http://www.chiadfhear.co.uk

Nice clean lines.... but I've a gripe, I know its a personal
preference that I'm about to express, but it really bugs me... when
you go a web site and it says <click here to enter>

*>sigh<*

why would I be visiting in the first place if not to "enter"?

Guess your right ;-)

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If you really want a welcome screen please consider using a
meta-refresh tag to forward your visitors on to a page with actual
content (pretty sharpish). Contrary to popular belief, I feel, most
folk won't be coming to your web site to look at your splash screen.

Done

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Sorry to carp, but, as I say, the look to the rest of the site is nice
and clean.

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Mcploppy © said:

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If you really want a welcome screen please consider using a
meta-refresh tag to forward your visitors on to a page with actual
content (pretty sharpish). Contrary to popular belief, I feel, most
folk won't be coming to your web site to look at your splash screen.

Done

Well done for putting a sensible time-delay on it. Too many sites use
near-instant redirects which stop the "Back" function on browsers working
properly.

I'd echo the PP's comments - nice, clean look to the site. You could do
some work on emphasising the inline links - they neither stand out in a
contrasting colour nor change colour after having been viewed. (If I knew
html better, I would refer to the correct terminology, sorry !) That aside,
very creditable.

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Pedantic Point No 1:
"The site is in it's infancy" - should be "its" (ie no apostrophe)

Sorry ;-)

S.

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Pedantic Point No 1:
"The site is in it's infancy" - should be "its" (ie no apostrophe)

Sorry ;-)

S.

Dunno LOL

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Pedantic Point No 1:
"The site is in it's infancy" - should be "its" (ie no apostrophe)

Sorry ;-)

S.

Sorted Thanks :-)

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"Simon Caldwell" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Pedantic Point No 1:
"The site is in it's infancy" - should be "its" (ie no apostrophe)

And ie should be wrote i.e. innit?

PML

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Pedantic Point No 1:
"The site is in it's infancy" - should be "its" (ie no apostrophe)

And ie should be wrote i.e. innit?

On the whole very nice indeed! I agree with previous comments about
the splash screen. Unecessary.

Also, it doesn't *quite* fit on a 800 x 600 screen resolution and
requires a tiny bit of sideways scrolling. It's only a little thing,
but it's terribly annoying. I see it's done with tables (of width 755
for example). It might be good to adjust this slightly, or use
percentages rather than pixel values. If the site was designed on a
1024 x 768 screen try setting it to 800 x 600 to see what I mean.

It's quite possible you just don't care, which is fair enough ;-) but
according to visitor statistics for my websites, over a third have a
screen resolution of 800 x 600 - assuming that this is a fair
representation of web-surfers out there, over a third of visitors to
the site will get a little fed up of sideways scrolling.

That aside, it's a nice site: clean and sharp. Top stuff.

Regards,

Michael S

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On the whole very nice indeed! I agree with previous comments about
the splash screen. Unecessary.

Also, it doesn't *quite* fit on a 800 x 600 screen resolution and
requires a tiny bit of sideways scrolling. It's only a little thing,
but it's terribly annoying. I see it's done with tables (of width 755
for example). It might be good to adjust this slightly, or use
percentages rather than pixel values. If the site was designed on a
1024 x 768 screen try setting it to 800 x 600 to see what I mean.

It's quite possible you just don't care, which is fair enough ;-) but
according to visitor statistics for my websites, over a third have a
screen resolution of 800 x 600 - assuming that this is a fair
representation of web-surfers out there, over a third of visitors to
the site will get a little fed up of sideways scrolling.

That aside, it's a nice site: clean and sharp. Top stuff.

Regards,

Michael S

Thanks for the comments, I do find it difficult with page sizes, I use a 19"
Monitor @ 1280 x 1024.
I have tried to keep inside the 800 as you saw by 755... so why is it not
fitting properly.... :-S

This could be fun changing/editing there are over 50 pages in the site....
:-(

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Thanks for the comments, I do find it difficult with page sizes, I use a 19"
Monitor @ 1280 x 1024.
I have tried to keep inside the 800 as you saw by 755... so why is it not
fitting properly.... :-S

This could be fun changing/editing there are over 50 pages in the site....

Instead of using absolute values try using a total of 98% (for
some reason 100% rarely seems to work properly) and setting your
table accordingly.

The only other thing I could think of to say to you is that the
full size photographs are very large and slow to load. This in
itself isn't a problem; however you could help your visitors by
including <alt> text on mouseover for the thumbnails, indicating
the subject of the picture (in case the viewer can't see much
detail in the thumbnail) and also the file size of the larger
image.
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Steve Orrell typed:

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Mcploppy © said:

This could be fun changing/editing there are over 50 pages in the
site.... :-(

Muahahahahhhaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

If only you'd used CSS declarations for your tables <spit><spit>;-)
you'd be home and dry in, ooh, ...edit CSS... save... FTP to site...
(check if you feel the need)... less than a minute, even on dial-up
;-)

within your style sheet =

table {
lots: ;
of: ;
declarations: ;
/* define width of table */
width: 650px;
}

Then each of your tables in each of your pages that calls your style
sheet will have these characteristics... amongst other things a width
of 650px :-)

Top-tip re. CSS: get in at the beginning [of your site] :-)
(It is worth it)

http://www.snapfiles.com./

lists CSS editors, both Freeware and Shareware that can make things a
lot easier for you.

Have fun... its a headache at first, but well worth it in the end ;-)

SteveO

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Yes I realise that I should be learning a bit about CSS
I will try the next time
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Thanks for the comments, I do find it difficult with page sizes, I use a 19"
Monitor @ 1280 x 1024.
I have tried to keep inside the 800 as you saw by 755... so why is it not
fitting properly.... :-S

This could be fun changing/editing there are over 50 pages in the site....
:-(

A perfect example of why CSS is good! If you use CSS you can have a
class of table called 'main' (for example), a property of which is
width=755 - all you'd have to do was change that value in the
stylesheet and bingo!, all the tables are altered to the new width!

I haven't checked your code, but it could be that, although you
specified a width of 755, the internal properties of the table
(including things like cell-padding and cell-spacing) exceed that
width. Experiment with percentage values, as suggested by myself and
Fran, as then your tables will adjust to whatever screen resolution
the visitor is using.

Regards,

Michael S

Mcploppy © typed:

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Steve Orrell typed:

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Mcploppy © said:

This could be fun changing/editing there are over 50 pages in the
site.... :-(

Muahahahahhhaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

If only you'd used CSS declarations for your tables <spit><spit>;-)
you'd be home and dry in, ooh, ...edit CSS... save... FTP to site...
(check if you feel the need)... less than a minute, even on dial-up
;-)

within your style sheet =

table {
lots: ;
of: ;
declarations: ;
/* define width of table */
width: 650px;
}

Then each of your tables in each of your pages that calls your style
sheet will have these characteristics... amongst other things a width
of 650px :-)

Top-tip re. CSS: get in at the beginning [of your site] :-)
(It is worth it)

http://www.snapfiles.com./

lists CSS editors, both Freeware and Shareware that can make things a
lot easier for you.

Have fun... its a headache at first, but well worth it in the end ;-)

SteveO

NE Climbers & walkers chat forum;
http://www.thenmc.org.uk/phpBB2/index.php

NMC website: http://www.thenmc.org.uk

Yes I realise that I should be learning a bit about CSS
I will try the next time

A bit late now I think ;-)

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