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Matt Clara

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Nov 19, 2003, 1:07:43 AM11/19/03

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Ok, I'm tooting my own horn: I've got a new site, and it's very near
completion (the links page, in particular, needs help). The site is simple,
so don't expect to be blown away or dancing in the aisles, but it's got some
class all the same, and if you'd like to exchange links, I'd be pleased to
do just that.

I'm also open to comments on the site.

The front page weighs in at 75kb, which is larger than I'd like, but there
it is.

www.mattclara.com

(the domain was my wife's idea--said it was memorable!)

Tony Spadaro

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Nov 19, 2003, 3:19:04 AM11/19/03

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Looks good. I've bookmarked it and will add it to my links this weekend.

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Mr Blobby

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Nov 19, 2003, 4:29:46 AM11/19/03

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Love the look, but try giving it a frame stye like mine
http://www.users.bigpond.com/andrewc/ it will stop that multiple window
thing happening.

By the way it took me half a day and about 10 goes before I could get
anything to show up! (server errors)

Love your pics by the way!

Blob

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Charlie Dilks

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Nov 19, 2003, 5:26:10 AM11/19/03

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In article <eKGub.17348$aT....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"Mr Blobby" <aussi...@warm-mail.com> wrote:

> Love the look, but try giving it a frame stye like mine
> http://www.users.bigpond.com/andrewc/ it will stop that multiple window
> thing happening.

Hi Blobby,

Your beautiful "shootin comp" and "water drops" came through fine, but
when I clicked on the other buttons I got "page not found" in both IE
5.2 and Safari 1.1 for Mac.

> "Matt Clara" <cri...@large.com> wrote in message

http://www.mattclara.com/

Matt,

Nice site and absolutely stunning images!
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Mr Blobby

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Nov 19, 2003, 7:31:35 AM11/19/03

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Thanks Charlie

Try again later, if one works the rest should, apparently a lot of people OS
have had trouble viewing my sit it appears to be a server issue and not
compatibility.

BTW Did you try the Top Text Links or the Graphic Buttons ?

Andrew

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Matt Clara

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Nov 19, 2003, 7:47:06 AM11/19/03

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"Mr Blobby" <aussi...@warm-mail.com> wrote in message
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> Love the look, but try giving it a frame stye like mine
> http://www.users.bigpond.com/andrewc/ it will stop that multiple window
> thing happening.
>

Nice site, Andrew, but you presume my multiple window look is some kind of
mistake--I did it that way on purpose.

> By the way it took me half a day and about 10 goes before I could get
> anything to show up! (server errors)

Yes, it chose the moment I posted it to start acting up. Seems fine this
morning.

>
> Love your pics by the way!
>

Thanks Andrew.

Charlie Dilks

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Nov 19, 2003, 7:42:34 AM11/19/03

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In article <HoJub.17640$aT....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"Mr Blobby" <aussi...@warm-mail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Charlie
>
> Try again later, if one works the rest should, apparently a lot of people OS
> have had trouble viewing my sit it appears to be a server issue and not
> compatibility.
>
> BTW Did you try the Top Text Links or the Graphic Buttons ?

I just tried again with both browsers, both top text and buttons, still
"page cannot be found."

Water drops and shoot in still work as do the thumbnails there.

Mr Blobby

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Nov 19, 2003, 7:53:22 AM11/19/03

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Now I know how to drive it its not that bad. :)

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Mr Blobby

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Nov 19, 2003, 7:56:16 AM11/19/03

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> I just tried again with both browsers, both top text and buttons, still
> "page cannot be found."

Funny Matt didn't have a problem have you tried Refresh ?

Otherwise its got to be a server problem.

Blob

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Charlie Dilks

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Nov 19, 2003, 8:19:01 AM11/19/03

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In article <QLJub.17667$aT....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,

Tried refresh, no go.
Your direct links work fine.
Beautiful shots!

Alan Browne

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Nov 19, 2003, 10:32:54 AM11/19/03

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Well done. Don't tinker.

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Gordon Moat

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Nov 19, 2003, 12:58:31 PM11/19/03

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Mr Blobby wrote:

> Love the look, but try giving it a frame stye like mine
> http://www.users.bigpond.com/andrewc/ it will stop that multiple window
> thing happening.

Nice opening layout. How much is Canon paying for the advertisement?

>
>
> By the way it took me half a day and about 10 goes before I could get
> anything to show up! (server errors)

I had trouble with the "Artistic" link under Netcrap, both 4.8 and 7.2. Neither
the rollover link, nor the text link worked. The other odd thing is that it
brought up frames with scroll bars, but only error messages in the frames.

Ciao!

Gordon Moat
Alliance Graphique Studio
<http://www.allgstudio.com>

Phil Stripling

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Nov 19, 2003, 1:54:31 PM11/19/03

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"Matt Clara" <cri...@large.com> writes:

> I'm also open to comments on the site.

Hi, Matt, I'm sorry to say that I'm having problems with navigation. I
really like the photos, and I'd like to send a link to the night shots to
Louise, Unfortunately, every page appears to be www.mattclara.com. Is there
no way to bookmark individual sections of the site? I'm sorry to say that
I'm getting more used to the opening page than I would like.

On the other opening page, the icons for the links confuse me as well. Is
the link to COLOR black and white? I'm not sure what the icon is supposed
to mean, and it's not clear that the icons are links, especially since the
bar below the four of them are links. Holding my pointer over them did not
bring up the rollover promptly, so I clicked and then saw that the man was
B & W.

The photos knock my socks off. If you have the link to the night shots, I'd
really like to forward it to Louise. Opening more windows is a problem,
though. It makes navigation more difficult since there is no indication of
where I am in the address bar. The navigation bar gives links to Home,
Images, and 3 D, and my guess that home was the page with the four icons
was wrong. It was also not the Links page. It confuses me that the link to
the page with icons is the Images page, since that page has a link to 3-D,
as does the navigation bar. But that link takes me to a page other than the
3-D link on the icon page. I'm sorry I'm so confused.

Great photos, but a confusing Web site.

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For the record I had no problem navigating the site, and was not in the
least confused by it. I think It's a great site.

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Matt Clara

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Thanks Phil--the 3D Models page goes directly to the models because there
aren't enough of them to warrant subdivisions. The images, on the other
hand, would have taken too much bandwidth downloading all the thumbnails, so
I broke them up into four subdivisions: color, night, B&W, and 3D/Digital.
Yes, the color gallery's icon is only subtly colored, almost appearing B&W.
It's actually a reflection of trees in water, and there are a lot of blues
in the image, which I feel are overpowered by the blue background. I
thought of this myself and thank you for confirming my fears. I'll look
into replacing it. As for Louise, if you click on one of the night images
you'll launch a new window with a larger version of the same image in it.
That page is outside the frame and _is_ bookmarkable (or emailable). There
are also arrows to either side of the larger images: clicking these will
take you from large image to large image.

Thanks for your kind words regarding my images.
Matt

Martin Francis

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Nov 20, 2003, 5:45:43 PM11/20/03

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"Matt Clara" <cri...@large.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, I'm tooting my own horn: I've got a new site, and it's very near
> completion (the links page, in particular, needs help). The site is
simple,
> so don't expect to be blown away or dancing in the aisles, but it's got
some
> class all the same, and if you'd like to exchange links, I'd be pleased to
> do just that.
>
> I'm also open to comments on the site.
>
> The front page weighs in at 75kb, which is larger than I'd like, but there
> it is.
>
> www.mattclara.com

Hope one day to get a decent portfolio online myself (last one was crap). I
notice you've done some 3d stuff... I just started getting back into 3D for
a project, learning Maya at the moment. I may put some online one day.

As for the layout... I got it. And I think it works well (a little work on
the name might help though :-) )

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But he did take some photographs once.

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Nov 20, 2003, 5:54:34 PM11/20/03

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"Mr Blobby" <aussi...@warm-mail.com> wrote in message
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> Love the look, but try giving it a frame stye like mine
> http://www.users.bigpond.com/andrewc/ it will stop that multiple window
> thing happening.
>
> By the way it took me half a day and about 10 goes before I could get
> anything to show up! (server errors)

No qualms with your work, but I have to say that despite the overwhelming
colour scheme I prefer Matt's. When I was learning web design I got the
general feeling frames were, for technical and handling reasons, not a good
choice. Also the page titles generally seem to be "Untitled".

My own next gallery design might be something like Harry Borden's
(http://www.harryborden.com) except with a more descriptive interface and
faster loading. I think it was universally accepted the whole excercise book
style thing my last site had was a bit tacky and hard to read
(http://www.btinternet.com/~mcsalty)

Mr Blobby

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> "Mr Blobby" <aussi...@warm-mail.com> wrote in message
> news:eKGub.17348$aT....@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > Love the look, but try giving it a frame stye like mine
> > http://www.users.bigpond.com/andrewc/ it will stop that multiple window
> > thing happening.

> No qualms with your work, but I have to say that despite the overwhelming
> colour scheme I prefer Matt's. When I was learning web design I got the
> general feeling frames were, for technical and handling reasons, not a
good
> choice. Also the page titles generally seem to be "Untitled".

My theme is based on ease of creating and uploading updated pictures wich I
am currently doing at least once a week, so I have sacrificed a lot of fancy
design and used frames for convineance.

The "Untitled" bit I am having trouble fixing using Dreamweaver Im sure I
could do it in Frontpage but since I have rebuilt my PC I don't seem to have
it anymore.

> My own next gallery design might be something like Harry Borden's
> (http://www.harryborden.com) except with a more descriptive interface and

Love this site! The Leny Cravits shot is cool.

> faster loading. I think it was universally accepted the whole excercise
book
> style thing my last site had was a bit tacky and hard to read
> (http://www.btinternet.com/~mcsalty)

This is the third time I have writen this, as every time I have click on the
about link my PC locked, so this time I am sending it and then having a
look.

BLOB

Mr Blobby

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Nov 21, 2003, 10:29:22 PM11/21/03

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It does work, though because I use 1280 X1024 Screen Res the front page gets
confused and the TEXT overlaps on the scroll down section.
And I found the Large fixed width screen that pops up awkward due to the
pictures auto zising them selves down in XP and when you click the full
screen button you loose the Right Hand Side part of some images and can't
scroll over.

The "tap" one would be a good Bugs Eye SI entry!

Oh and Rachael's gallery doesn't work for me :(

Some Nice work there !

Blob

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Nick C

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Nov 22, 2003, 2:30:55 AM11/22/03

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Well done Matt. Looks good

Nick

Deathwalker

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Nov 22, 2003, 12:49:46 PM11/22/03

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you forgot the link to www.jessops.com ya silly billy ;)

Magnus W

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Nov 24, 2003, 7:22:45 AM11/24/03

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> Thanks Charlie
>
> Try again later, if one works the rest should, apparently a lot of
> people OS have had trouble viewing my sit it appears to be a server
> issue and not compatibility.

no, it's faulty coding. The top text links contain backslashes \ instead of
forward slashes / and that is not accepted in urls.

Mr Blobby

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Thanks Magnus

I had just found that last night in the Main page coding and changed most of
it, but I didn't see the Top section.
Thanks what you get for staying up late and doing these things.

Fixed now

BLOB

Charlie Dilks

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> Fixed now

Hi Blob,

Yes it is. All the links work for me now.
You have some very good stuff there. I'm glad I could finally see it.

Magnus W

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"Mr Blobby" <aussi...@warm-mail.com> wrote in

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> Thanks what you get for staying up late and doing these things.

...and only testing the site in Internet Explorer, the world's most
incompetent web browser ;-)