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"OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/11/2004 23:24:06
Here is my newest venture, which should have been done four days ago....they want something bold and eye catching - something to reach out and grab you....
http://www.design-a-website.com/summit/
Here is their original page:
http://www.wallenpaupackrealestate.com
What do you think? The picture of the two of them is a must; even though my hubby doesn't like it and I don't think it's good cause we can't really see their faces....
Does it take too long on dialup?
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/12/2004 3:48:51
Firstly, your "revamp" is a hell of a lot better, but i do have somethings:
On the Home Page:
The text to the right of the page, would look better as a blockquote in the center over the image, if you want to know how let me know, I can provide the coding.
And on the Homes For Sale page. The image of the property is a tad too close to the table of info about it. A few more pixels to the left will sort that.
Dr HTML says:
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The total number of bytes transferred while loading the page is 38.9 KB. This will take approximately 10.8 seconds to load over a 28.8 kbps network connection.
And theres a couple of table errors on the home page (Line 40 and 33)
Other than that, Nice one
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/12/2004 4:41:17
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Firstly, your "revamp" is a hell of a lot better
LOL, one would hope so! :-) thanks!
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The text to the right of the page, would look better as a blockquote in the center over the image, if you want to know how let me know, I can provide the coding.
You mean where it says "Your Real Estate Team...." blah blah blah? I had it in the center and didn't like it...it kind of balances off with the red text in the next gray cell underneath the logo....
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And on the Homes For Sale page. The image of the property is a tad too close to the table of info about it. A few more pixels to the left will sort that.
Fixed that plus added some more "goodies"....I think it's darn cool and I think I undercharged him...
table errors: I'm not worrying as much about perfection at this point as I am just getting something they can look at now. If they say "Yeah, go for it," then I'll go and be sure to style all the tables and such and get rid of the nasties.
But the thing is...does this page, when it opens up say "Stay here and see what we've got!!!" I know it's better than the original one (even the owners hate that site) but I want to know if new surfers will just think "Wow, what a nice site."
Red, btw, is the office trademark color, so that's not really open for much debate. I prefer more muted tones myself.
Now, I need to go to bed. The kids will be up in two hours.
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/12/2004 4:44:49
and do you think 10 seconds is too long? I really think that the majority of the people who will be targeted for this site are going to be more well -to- do city folks, who will most likely have DSL.
but even on dialup...I dunno. I was afraid it would be too big. It's that background image of the lake...but the page needs something. I had just text there and it really looked BLAH
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/12/2004 4:46:50
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You mean where it says "Your Real Estate Team...." blah blah blah? I had it in the center and didn't like it...it kind of balances off with the red text in the next gray cell underneath the logo....
Yup, but remember, it's personal prefs here
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But the thing is...does this page, when it opens up say "Stay here and see what we've got!!!" I know it's better than the original one (even the owners hate that site) but I want to know if new surfers will just think "Wow, what a nice site."
Hit's me in the face, and I actually went to look at the properties, when normally I just look at the home page on critiques, so yeah, I'd say it's gonna lure a few people in, and I only went in purely on design.
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Now, I need to go to bed. The kids will be up in two hours.
Isn't it like 4:40am there??? in another question, that time comes twice a day?
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The time given for page download is based on a 28.8K modem, not used these days, most people start on 56k so it would be around 5-6 seconds, not too bad, start to worry when you go above that
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Is that slideshow script the same as the one I helped you to get working in Mozilla? Just Curious?
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/12/2004 9:26:09
I like the Summit Realty banner text. The second site is crisp.
I have only thought that may be a negative. The psychology of colors says that you should avoid using RED when it comes to logo'ing or advertising any product or service that has to do with money, investments, etc....and real estate might fall into that category. People associating it with "being in the red" and all that. Generally blues and greens and grey/blacks should be used.
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/12/2004 9:54:57
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he psychology of colors says that you should avoid using RED when it comes to logo'ing or advertising any product or service that has to do with money, investments, etc....and real estate might fall into that category
LOL, maybe that's why there's more Coldwell Bankers (blue/white) and ReMax's (blue, white, little red) and Century 21's (yucky brown and yellow) than there are Summits.
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/13/2004 15:29:12
Most excellent.
I consider that a very nice improvement. I get "professionals" much more from that one than from the other. I'll buy from them now.
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/13/2004 19:09:23
Check this out as a primer and then if you have some free time it will lead you to check out Dr. Morton Walker (were web designers, we all have ooodles of free time, right).
http://www.alleykatt.com/colors/colorproducts.htm
It's an interesting concept on colors and marketing.
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/13/2004 21:57:16
wow, there's a lot of bright colors on there!!
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/24/2004 7:57:17
i thought
{margin: 0 auto;} was the way to centre block level elements??
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/24/2004 10:59:58
THanks - I'm surprised that the table renders at 775 pixels...it's set to be 755 pixels wide (just had to push the recommended 750 a bit, LOL) It should be centered; thanks!!! I've eliminated the red one all together now and the blue one is the approved design. I like it a lot better than the red one anyway....so does the client, so everyone's happy.
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/26/2004 4:56:01
Peppergal you only used <center> on the other pages so I guess you can use that on the front page too. That's not a crime! So forget my last comment comment.
d a v e, I don't know about margin: 0 auto but I guess that isn't very widely supported method? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Actually, I wouldn't use CSS to center the contents. It's kinda risky. Any ideas?
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/26/2004 5:16:06
why is it risky?
Actually it's the method given by Eric Meyer (css guru...) and it's (supposedly) the correct way to center block level elements, there's no reason why it wouldn't be supported by any browser that supports css1
if you don't want to declare the top/bottom margins you can also just use
margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;
as in my page here http://members.surfeu.fi/dave_pirjo/
so if you want to centre a whole page just a make the left and right margins auto for the containing element either the main table or div that holds the page contents.
btw <center> is deprecated
(obivously it doesn't work with inline elements, for that you can make a class like
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/26/2004 7:49:22
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why is it risky?
Yeah...why? LOL
I shouldn't have used the <center> tag to center my tables but I was too lazy. It was so easy to just hit "center" on the menu. LOL I'll do better next time. :-)
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/27/2004 4:18:07
why fear old netscape versions? if your code validates and you page degrades gracefully then why worry about NN4? unless your audience has a *significant* number of people using it.
nn4 users are quite happy with a largely unstyled (but usable) site anyway, otherwise they would upgrade or put pressure in the people who provide their choice of browser. and if they can't upgrade then they are quite used to the way a large proportion of css styled pages look in their browsers.
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/27/2004 12:46:00
that's why i said "unless your audience has a *significant* number of people using it."... you seem to know more about the biosciences - interesting to know that, thouh i have done one site for a biocomposites center (wales) and even they didn't have any requests for NN4 considerations. but of course that's only one site and obviosuly an exception.
are you referring to bioscience places in europe/britain/america? I would be surprised if that many places in britain (or were *still* using NN4) but as i say i don't know ;) I know a lot of universities still seem to be weeding out NN4 but then by prioritising it's use we're just helping keeping it going. the sooner users start seeing very minimally styled (but working fully functional) sites in NN4 the sooner they - or rather their IT departments will get of their butts and start making some changes. I'm not talking about excluding NN4 users, merely gicing them a bit of a kick up the backside.
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Many of 'em have for example genetic data display plugins. I assume then that these are NN4 specific?? or wouldn't they work with current browsers
not the case so much in england at least not for a couple or three unis that i know (in fact i did a site for a biocomposites site) but of course i can only comment on on that and it's hardly representative, but of course that sort of site is used by other scientists in other departments and i haven't thad any feedback to say that the site was optimised for NN4
well handy to know at least for that kind of site there needs to be more consideration for NN4, though personally i would rather lead people away from it!
as for the military i know nothing at all about that area, but it's a bit worrying to think that the people defending out country with up to the minute weapons are using a browser that was released about 7 years ago ;)
of course you can still style your pages for NN4 but it was just a naughty thought just to 'help' people upgrade to suggest serving them unstyled pages :)
would be interesting to know bit more about the biosciences aspect as i am redesigning the biocomposites site that i mentioned after summer... (of course last time i did it it still worked ok in netscape ;)
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/28/2004 3:54:36
me neither
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RE: "OOoooo!!" or "Ehhhh...." ??? - 3/29/2004 1:59:41
last version of the real Netscape was 7.1??
I heard that it's possible to actually find new versions of netscape (or even something called mozilla) from the internet and download them for free, but that's probably just some myth, or then that people who upgraded from NN4 disappeared in mysterious cirumstances... :)
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