Newly revamped website

OBrien · Post by **OBrien** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:07 pm

Thanks to a member of this board who's willing to work for whistles, my site has a new look. I'll let the person identify him or herself, if they want to. Check it out if you dare.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:53 pm

Wow, David, it looks good! (cough). If *I*'d done it though (cough), I'd have (hint) centered the Tin Whistle Web Ring box on the bottom of the first page.

LOL!... OK... I did do it (except for the left-leaning webring box... probably a political conspiracy).

I hope folks find it easy to navigate.

Thanks for the opportunity to trade, David.

after-thought ... now, looking at your avatar, and my avatar... I must like that font... yup... I think I'll work up a new avatar for myself.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:19 am

Great job! It really looks great, and I'm finding it easy to navigate thus far

OnTheMoor · Post by **OnTheMoor** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:40 am

Very nice.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:57 pm

Thanks! And thanks to the CFer who shared some observations about alternate browser problems. Appreciate the input!!

edited for spelling

Howlin Hobbit · Post by **Howlin Hobbit** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:05 pm

I dunno about "alternate browser problems" but I do know that some of us out here are not at 1024x768 resolution.

Sideways scrolling is such a bitch. Sometimes when I find it I just give up on the site and surf elsewhere.

It's always better to plan pages that adjust downward from your optimum (known in "the biz" as "degrading gracefully").

McHaffie · Post by **McHaffie** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:03 pm

It does have a good look, but maybe it's my browser version?? IE 6.0

I'm having a lot of overlapping graphics issues just so you're aware of it.
The front page menu overlaps the textbox a hair, and on the testimonials page the knot graphic starts getting out of line and overlapping the customer comments as you scroll down the page.

I dunno. Almost seems like graphics were done with an absolute, and the text with a table and they slowly move away from eachother (or get out of alignment I guess?) possibly?

When I get home I'll check it w/ Netscape and Konquerer on my Linux box.

Great design and graphics. Nice and clean. Simple navigation. The way a site should be!!

Take care,
John

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:15 pm

McHaffie wrote:... Almost seems like graphics were done with an absolute, and the text with a table and they slowly move away from eachother (or get out of alignment I guess?) possibly?...
Take care,
John

I think that is part of the problem. The program used in this case is Yahoo's PageBuilder, and that does seem to be the way it is set up. This is the first time I've used it instead of setting my own HTML code. It is desirable in that it allows the owner, David, to continue to have the option of inserting things himself as he finds the need, and since he doesn't know HTML, this program is handy. However, it does have some limitations.

I don't have the expertise to make the site self-editable, and he doesn't have the time to become HTML fluent... ah compromise. Of course, he could just keep me on retainer with an unending supply of new and wonderful whistles,

Thanks for you observations. We'll see what we can do.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:18 pm

Howlin Hobbit wrote:I dunno about "alternate browser problems" but I do know that some of us out here are not at 1024x768 resolution.

Sideways scrolling is such a bitch. Sometimes when I find it I just give up on the site and surf elsewhere.

It's always better to plan pages that adjust downward from your optimum (known in "the biz" as "degrading gracefully").

Hmmm... I'll have to see what we can do about that. It is annoying, I know.

Thanks for letting us know.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:58 pm

anniemcu wrote:The program used in this case is Yahoo's PageBuilder, and that does seem to be the way it is set up.

On the Mac, I use Netscape Composer, which is part of the Navigator package.

It's worked well for me and might be worth checking out, if there is a Windows version.

McHaffie · Post by **McHaffie** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 6:54 pm

Yup. Just so you know, yesterday I tried Mozilla, Konquerer, Opera, and Firefox and got similar results on all of them. Some more extreme than others, but all of them produced some anomolies of overlaping.

But like I said before, the overall design is very nice indeed. It's refreshing to have nice simple and attractive sites rather than junked up with too much java scripting, frames, mouseovers, and things that do nothing more than take up bandwidth and annoy dial up customers.

Take care,
John

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:01 pm

Looks OK right now with Netscape 7.1. It is a little too wide, but nothing that would irritate me too much.

McHaffie · Post by **McHaffie** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:24 pm

Yep It certainly does look better!

My bad for not looking first before posting. I just got in and posted my findings from the last time I checked everything and wanted to be sure post my findings. I hadn't posted yet what I'd found on all the other browsers.

Looks good.

That's what one gets for not looking first!

Take care,
John

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 10:05 pm

McHaffie wrote:Yep It certainly does look better! My bad for not looking first before posting. I just got in and posted my findings from the last time I checked everything and wanted to be sure post my findings. I hadn't posted yet what I'd found on all the other browsers.

Looks good.

That's what one gets for not looking first!

Take care,
John

OK... would you be so kind as to give a look see to the "Testimonials" page and see if we are still having the vertical spacing problem with the knots and the quotes?

I really do appreciate everyone's input!!

Thanks!

Azalin · Post by **Azalin** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:29 pm

Great work! I'm at 1152 x 864 and it looks perfect on my screen, using Firefox.

I don't understand why you can't make the site using straight html and simple text editor and then let the owner use a web html tool to edit existing code, it should work no?