first website
Gary
I work for a small company and have been given the job of building a
website.
NOTE - this is my first attempt !!.
I would like to know if it loads quick enough - do I need to change anything
?
Any ideas to make it better ?
I would also like to know how to display a small message in the information
bar at the bottom of IE5 when certain things are highlighted i.e. when you
hover over the home button - it displays home, when you hover over the
e-mail button it displays the company name.
Thanks for any help and constructive criticism.
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It's about halfway down the page.
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Gary
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Jezza
<ga...@gmort.freeserve.co.uk> posted this:
>:Hi
How about an url?
That's the best way of letting us know where to look!
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Gary
> >:Hi
> >:
> >:I work for a small company and have been given the job of building a
> >:website.
> >:NOTE - this is my first attempt !!.
> >:I would like to know if it loads quick enough - do I need to change
anything
> >:?
> >:Any ideas to make it better ?
> >:I would also like to know how to display a small message in the
information
> >:bar at the bottom of IE5 when certain things are highlighted i.e. when
you
> >:hover over the home button - it displays home, when you hover over the
> >:e-mail button it displays the company name.
> >:
> >:Thanks for any help and constructive criticism.
>
> How about an url?
>
> That's the best way of letting us know where to look!
Sorry - I said I was wet behind the ears !! - www.caseuk.co.uk
Thanks
Gary
Julia Williscroft
Gary <ga...@gmort.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi Gary
A couple of points:
1. On your services pages you have underlined the headings - this is a bit
confusing because normally the only text highlighted is a link to another
part of the site, etc.
2. On the home page the images do not have an alt text.
3. On the company details page it would perhaps look better to just show the
co.uk email address instead of including the freeserve ones as well, same
applies on the the e-mail.
Presume you more to add!
HTH
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Bagsy
Gary <ga...@gmort.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >
> > >:Hi
> > >:
> > >:I work for a small company and have been given the job of building a
> > >:website.
> > >:NOTE - this is my first attempt !!.
> > >:I would like to know if it loads quick enough - do I need to change
> anything
> > >:?
> > >:Any ideas to make it better ?
> > >:I would also like to know how to display a small message in the
> information
> > >:bar at the bottom of IE5 when certain things are highlighted i.e. when
> you
> > >:hover over the home button - it displays home, when you hover over the
> > >:e-mail button it displays the company name.
> > >:
> > >:Thanks for any help and constructive criticism.
The scrolling text on the first page works in IE5 but not in NN4.6 I've
seen this happen recently on another site aswell, perhaps you can source a
code that works in both browsers? It still looks fine in NN4.6, just no
animation.
On the first page in the frameset there is a spelling mistake, "Touch
Sensative". Also on this page you could reduce the filesize of those images
dramatically if you saved them as .jpg rather than .gif The GIF format is
better suited to images with very few colours such as buttons and
cartoons/illustrations, whereas JPEG will do a better job on photographic
images. I don't know what graphics program you are using to optimise these
images but I'd suggest trying them in .jpg format as this should bring down
the loading time of the page a lot.
On your "Company Details" page, you could make the email addresses
active. I know you already have an "Email" button on your site but it
couldn't hurt to make these email addresses hyperlinks aswell. I would also
suggest that you might want to either change the colour of the text against
the "CASE" background, or maybe make the background image softer if you can,
the text is a little lost against the busy background.
One other thing, It's a matter of personal preference I suppose, but I
really didn't dig the blue pastel background in the side frames. It looks
really "Frontpage" if you know what I mean. Perhaps you could have something
that looks a bit tougher! It is an engineering firm after all! I've also
never liked visible frame borders, I think your site would look better
without them but again, that's just my own personal preference.
On the upside, all very nice concise code which is always a pleasure to
see. I noticed your JavaScript routines were Macromedia tagged so I can only
assume you have some nice authoring tools at your disposal. Once you get
into compressing your graphics I think you'll be onto a winner. Nice one.
Jezza
<ga...@gmort.freeserve.co.uk> posted this:
>:> >:Any ideas to make it better ?
>:> >:I would also like to know how to display a small message in the
>:information
>:> >:bar at the bottom of IE5 when certain things are highlighted i.e. when
>:you
>:> >:hover over the home button - it displays home, when you hover over the
>:> >:e-mail button it displays the company name.
In the left hand navigation bar the code for the *Home* button is
wrong, I think.
<p align="center"><a href="homepage.htm"
onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"
onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('home_button','','Images/home_button_onmouseover.gif',1)"
target="_parent">
~~~~~~~~~
<img name="home_button" border="0" src="Images/home_button.gif"
width="72" height="25"></a>
</p>
It should refer the "homepage.htm to the main frame not the parent.
I think I've seen a javascript code for the effect you want in the
status bar at:
The JavaScript Source: http://javascriptsource.com/
Gary
new ideas and see what I can come up with - after all we have to start
somewhere.
Its very handy being able to ask so many "experts".
Thanks again
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>
> Gary <ga...@gmort.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:8bo5ad$fkj$1...@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > >
> > > >:Hi
> > > >:
> > > >:I work for a small company and have been given the job of building a
> > > >:website.
> > > >:NOTE - this is my first attempt !!.
> > > >:I would like to know if it loads quick enough - do I need to change
> > anything
> > > >:?
> > > >:Any ideas to make it better ?
> > > >:I would also like to know how to display a small message in the
> > information
> > > >:bar at the bottom of IE5 when certain things are highlighted i.e.
when
> > you
> > > >:hover over the home button - it displays home, when you hover over
the
> > > >:e-mail button it displays the company name.
Bagsy
> Thanks very much Bagsy, your comments are well appreciated, will try your
> new ideas and see what I can come up with - after all we have to start
> somewhere.
> Its very handy being able to ask so many "experts".
>
> Thanks again
>
*real* experts upon me! I've been doing HTML for about 4 or 5 months now but
I don't know much about much else (server-side stuff, eCommerce etc..) Yes
we do all have to start somewhere and I have only just got around to
updating my "first" site, which I might add was a lot uglier than yours is
;-)
Duncan Clarke
>
> I would also like to know how to display a small message in the information
> bar at the bottom of IE5 when certain things are highlighted i.e. when you
> hover over the home button - it displays home, when you hover over the
> e-mail button it displays the company name.
Please don't. If you need people to see information, then put it on the
page. It could easily be missed at the bottom.
Also, the 'information bar' is actually called the status bar, and has a
useful function. If you put messages in there, it can't do what it is
designed to, ie. report the status...
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Pedt Scragg
>> Its very handy being able to ask so many "experts".
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
> Oh please don't call me an expert, you will bring forth the fury of the
>*real* experts upon me!
I very much doubt it. Anyway, I've never seen any regular here describe
themselves as expert [possibly because 'ex' is latin for 'out of' and a
'spurt' is a 'drip under pressure'? <darfc>]
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mark
design.co.uk says...
>
> I very much doubt it. Anyway, I've never seen any regular here describe
> themselves as expert [possibly because 'ex' is latin for 'out of' and a
> 'spurt' is a 'drip under pressure'? <darfc>]
>
are journalists. I really couldn't say what psychology lies behind this
phenomenon.
Even the great PERL guru Larry Wall recently told a journalist he'd be
happier being described as a specialist.
Chwith
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> Bagsy <KDeigh...@PAMtheedgeofpanic.freeserve.co.uk> said
> >
> >Gary <ga...@gmort.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> >> Its very handy being able to ask so many "experts".
> >>
> >> Thanks again
> >>
> > Oh please don't call me an expert, you will bring forth the fury
of the
> >*real* experts upon me!
>
describe
> themselves as expert [possibly because 'ex' is latin for 'out of' and
a
> 'spurt' is a 'drip under pressure'? <darfc>]
ROFLHO!! If that doesn't start the baby off I can't imagine what
will... last night's curry sure didn't!
Fran - still laughing too much to guide the mouse to the 'send'
button...
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