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come on then, any thoughts? could be improved? too small? needs
expanding? bad color scheme? choice of music? videos working? pictures
slide show working?

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fishnchipsx2 said:

*come on then, any thoughts? could be improved? too small? needs
expanding? bad color scheme? choice of music? videos working? pictures
slide show working? *

It looks pretty good. Here are my two cents.

Pick a more normal font to use for your text (arial, times, courier),
something that everyone is sure to have on their computers. Right now
I'm looking at something sort of scripty that's extremely hard to read,
especally for large blocks of text.

Don't use that .tk domain place. I understand it's free and all, but
there's loads of other free places that don't make you wait 15 seconds
before you can even view the first page. (Sorry, I've been viewing a
lot of pages that use this free domain for the past 2 days so it's
*REALLY* bugging me. heh)

Finally, don't expect replies to your posts so soon. Yea it's sunday
and there's nothing else to do, but a lot of people really don't read
this on the hour every hour, so your best bet is to wait a day and
you'll have plenty of replies.

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Thanks for your comments. Sorry about being impatient, that's just me
being me 🙂

I will be changing the font in the next couple of days. Will be a
lengthy process, because I made all of the pages in notepad. Therefore,
I have to go into every one of them individually 🙁

However, I'll be keeping the '.tk' domain. Unfortunately, they only
started the 'wait 15 secs' thing after I signed up. If you could
suggest any other free domains, I'll give them a go. Until then, if you
really can't wait 15 seconds, you can go directly to
http://www.sebszhost.com/~unicycling .

Thanks for the constructive comments, keep them coming!

Calum

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fishnchipsx2 said:

Please post any comments, either on here or on the guestbook.

It's surprisingly mature for a website you just made! Few comments:

* Loose the background music. Not my taste, especially at 6:30 in the
morning.
*I think it's best viewed in /more/ than 800x600. My monitor is
1600x1200 and I could use even more real estate on your site.
* I hate thin light lettering on black background. My eyes don't like
it, but also my monitor doesn't seem to be very good at it.
* I clicked Pics - All pics. The screen said "Unable to display
photo".

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fishnchipsx2 said:

Please post any comments, either on here or on the guestbook.

It's surprisingly mature for a website you just made! Few comments:

* Loose the background music. Not my taste, especially at 6:30 in the
morning.
*I think it's best viewed in /more/ than 800x600. My monitor is
1600x1200 and I could use even more real estate on your site.
* I hate thin light lettering on black background. My eyes don't like
it, but also my monitor doesn't seem to be very good at it.
* I clicked Pics - All pics. The screen said "Unable to display
photo".

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It would also be better if the splash page didn't open up an entire new
browser window. It should open the page in the existing browser
window.

The music doesn't work in Firefox. Try to avoid doing things that only
work in IE.

The splash page should have a proper title for the site. Right now the
title for the splash page is "unicycling.tk" it would be better if it
was something like "RUniC - Ringwood Unicycle Club". The title is the
default name when bookmarking your site. Make the title something
meaningful for a bookmark title.

I added your site to my megalist of bookmarks. You'll be in the next
update.

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thanks for all the suggegstions.

i'll add a link for the main site from the intro page outside the flash
bit right now. will try changing the title for the splash page as
well, although i'm not sure if it's just the .tk domain that does
that.

will stick with the music, however. i am not familiar with how firefox
works, so if anybody can give me the code for embedding music that will
work on it, i will be grateful.

will experiment with the noresize tag. however, it does give the option
for people with different resolutions to change it to their liking.

will also experiment with the font sizes and colours. i would like to
stick with the black background though. as for the sub menus, i'll see
if i can make the lettering bold to make it more readable.

i think the non-working slide show is due to activex settings on
individuals' computers. i'll have a look for ways to make it work
without changing settings, but it's probably beyond my knowledge and
understanding of html and javascript. the same problem occurs with any
movies that i try to embed. if anyone can tell me how to get these
going, it would be much appreciated.

thanks again for all the suggestions,

Calum.

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Quoted message said:

will stick with the music, however. i am not familiar with how
firefox works, so if anybody can give me the code for embedding music
that will work on it, i will be grateful.

Check out www.w3cschools.com for that kind of information

Quoted message said:

will experiment with the noresize tag. however, it does give the
option for people with different resolutions to change it to their
liking.

Firstly, do any major sites do that? People aren't going to spend time
changing the layout each time they visit the page

Quoted message said:

i think the non-working slide show is due to activex settings on
individuals' computers. i'll have a look for ways to make it work
without changing settings, but it's probably beyond my knowledge and
understanding of html and javascript. the same problem occurs with
any movies that i try to embed. if anyone can tell me how to get
these going, it would be much appreciated.

Your really don't want to be using activex for such tasks, ActiveX only
works for Windows Internet Explorer. No Linux, no Firefox...

Sorry it's negative comments but if you can fix the problems you have
the oppurtunity for a good site.

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yeah theres plenty of great places to ride in the city centre its worth
the travel. and yeah i wouldnt mind coming to reading but i dont really
know my way around very well so i might need to bring a friend who does,
he cheats and does trials biking.

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sorry to anyone who couldn't get the site, the server shut down without
notice. however, it is now back up, with improvements!

everything on it should be working by now . . .

juggling_unicyclist_joe - it would be cool to meet up, but i don't know
where you got the reading idea from - i'm closer to soton than there!
get me on your msn - fishnchipsx2 at hotmail

cheers,
Calum.

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fishnchipsx2 said:

*

I will be changing the font in the next couple of days. Will be a
lengthy process, because I made all of the pages in notepad.
Therefore, I have to go into every one of them individually 🙁

*

I would recomend using cascading style sheets (css) it lets you keep all
the font/color/size/etc information in one place! The site looks pretty
good, a little harder to read with the weird colors, but looks cool.
Keep just using notepad, you can do anything, and you will actually
understand it. You are motivating me to work on my web page, which is
currently all but non existant (and I have no place to host it) 🙁

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mine's hosted at 'www.ahost4free.com' (http://www.ahost4free.com/)

as you can probably tell, its free. gives you the option of a plain,
120mb-or-so site without ads, or one with a load of extras plus ads. (i
went for the lite version)

hope this helps you until gilby gets the unicyclist.com server going
again,

Calum.

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sevenasterisks said:

*I would recomend using cascading style sheets (css) it lets you keep
all the font/color/size/etc information in one place! The site looks
pretty good, a little harder to read with the weird colors, but looks
cool. Keep just using notepad, you can do anything, and you will
actually understand it. You are motivating me to work on my web page,
which is currently all but non existant (and I have no place to host
it) 🙁 *

Definetly use style css. It's not that hard to learn and makes things
sooooooooo much easier to keep track of.

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cheers, css most certainly does make things easier. takes a bit of
fiddling to begin with, but its worth it.

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