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gene-watson.com - 10/17/2004 13:14:08
Please review my website, which is dedicated to Texan country music artist Gene Watson. Any comments and/or suggestions with regard to improvements would be appreciated.
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RE: gene-watson.com - 10/17/2004 13:15:04
I'd imagine that a url would help - www.gene-watson.com
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RE: gene-watson.com - 10/17/2004 23:27:37
Hi Sean,
I agree with most of the things JayBee said, especially about the text size.
The hyperlink rollover effect on the opening page must be set to bold or something, because on that page only, the links appear to move when you move over them. Also, the external links on your "thank you" page open in the same window, wondering if it'd be better if they opened in a new window?
The colour scheme is great, but i'm wondering if the map of Texas with the flag fits with the style of the page? Maybe you could dull it a little, or put it in greyscale, as it's the brightest thing on the page.
I really like the page though!
Nicole
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RE: gene-watson.com - 10/19/2004 9:44:32
Very nice looking! one thing i noticed is that picture of Gene and the title. It is always the same but the title changes. Having the same picture for each title losses its effectiveness especially when you have the same title just to the right of the picture because the eye will be drawn to the new stuff and not the same picture. Basically it comes down to saving bandwidth and download time because a lot of people will miss that. Point #2. There is no link to His own website? or he doesn't have one.
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RE: gene-watson.com - 10/19/2004 20:49:11
Nicole & Reric
Thank you both for your constructive comments with regard to my Gene Watson website. I didn't quite understand what you both were referring to & would love to hear/read some more details with regard to the comments you both made earlier.
I'd also be interested in readin any comments you'd like to make with regard to www.sherryfitzgeraldfarrelly.com & www.brady558.com, both of which are my creations.
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RE: gene-watson.com - 10/19/2004 21:21:07
Hi Sean,
The rollover effect i was talking about seems to have gone now, so don't worry about that, and on the "Thank you" page, the links to other artists opened in the same window. It may be just a personal thing, but i'd be having them open in a new window as they're not part of the same website.
Regarding Sherry Fitzgerald Real Estate, it has a different feel to it than other real estate sites. I'm not sure about the different colour text, i'd imagine real estate sites would be printed out by prospective buyers quite often, so i'm not sure how these pages would appear printed.
That little jumping man AARRGGHH!!! lol. He was funny to begin with, but i found him quite annoying after a while. I opened another page and he was there too, and another and there too!!!
I guess these are all personal preferences, but to me, real estate is serious, and that as well as professionalism would be the images i'd be trying to portray to prospective buyers, not sure if multicoloured text and a jumping cartoon really portray those images.
I'd also align the form boxes on the "enquiry form".
I liked Brady558.com, though again, links open in the same window rather than a new one, meaning people leave your website more easily.
Nicole
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RE: gene-watson.com - 10/20/2004 10:44:54
Thank you so much for the comments/suggestions, all of which are very much appreciated & will be taken on board. I have been using Frontpage for a number of years & anything I've learned has all been self-taught. I'm always willing to leard more though!
With regard to the comment about the map of Texas with the flag, how do you suggest I dull it a little, or put it in greyscale?
And on the "Thank you" page, the links to other artists open in the same window. You suggested that I have them open in a new window - how do I achieve this feat?
With regard to brady558.com, you stated that links open in the same window rather than a new one, meaning people leave my website more easily - how do I change this? I'm actually revamping brady558 at the moment, so any suggestions would be welcomed.
Back to gene-watson.com, & the remarks about that picture of Gene and the title - 'It is always the same but the title changes. Having the same picture for each title losses its effectiveness especially when you have the same title just to the right of the picture because the eye will be drawn to the new stuff and not the same picture' - any suggestions as to how to change this? Use different photos of Gene for each section? Use same photo of Gene without the text on it?
Lastly, the query about the lack of a link to Gene's official website. The answer is simple: he doesn't have an official one, hence my reason for setting up gene-watson.com. genewatson.com is registered, but at the moment it has absolutely nothing to do with this 'Lone Star Hero'.
Thanks again!
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RE: gene-watson.com - 10/20/2004 18:10:26
Hi Sean,
To make a hyperlink open in a new window - in frontpage, rightclick the hyperlink on your page and select "hyperlink properties" then select "target frame" and select "new window".
With the photo of Texas, FrontPage can change a coloured photo to greyscale by selecting the colour/greyscale icon from the picture toolbar. I also use Paint Shop Pro 8 to edit images, do you have an image editor? As your images on the page seem to have a blue filter over them, it may be better to try somehow to apply a filter to it rather than just turn it to "black & white". Maybe just play with the hue/saturation a bit and see what happens, but maybe there's a better way that i'm not sure of.
Nicole
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RE: gene-watson.com - 10/21/2004 19:20:56
Nicole
Thank you for your further response, which is very much appreciated. With regard to how to make a hyperlink open in a new window, I have followed your instructions & I'm in the process of adding this feature to my Gene Watson pages.
With regard to the photo of Texas, I have changed its colour to resemble the blue filter that I have achieved on other images & it now looks fine - I have not uploaded any changed pages as yet. I achieved the blue filter effect on the map of Texas by opeing the image up in Microsoft Picture It! 7.
The only image editors that I've mastered at the moment are Arc Soft's Photo Studio, which I used to create the text & banner images.
Thanks again for all your help.
Cheers!
Sean.
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RE: gene-watson.com - 11/1/2004 20:54:55
I have further updated my website dedicated to Texan country music artist Gene Watson (www.gene-watson.com) & would welcome any further comments/suggestions anyone may care to provide within this forum.
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RE: gene-watson.com - 11/1/2004 21:30:06
Hi Sean,
I really like your site, like I said before, and I much prefer the map of Texas in those shades now. But... is the fact he comes from Texas a major thing? I mean, do you think you've overdone it?
Personally i'd only have that map once on the whole site, probably on the opening page only. As it is, to me, it appears that the map of Texas is too dominant.
With that said, on your opening page, the links appear to "move" when you mouse over them, this doesn't happen on the other pages though. The other thing is, and i think it was mentioned by someone else, the Biography is VERY long, do you think you should break it up into "years" or say "part 1". "part 2" etc?
Nicole
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RE: gene-watson.com - 11/2/2004 7:22:13
I like it. Just a couple things I see. You really don't need 3 flags. the 2 at the top is fine. The second is Genes picture on the left. You can see where you erased something in the picture but missed some spots. There is a slight color change that on my screen you can see and i am not sure if you can on yours.
This is a nice job.
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RE: gene-watson.com - 11/2/2004 8:12:38
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is the fact he comes from Texas a major thing
to Texans it is!! lol
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RE: gene-watson.com - 11/2/2004 18:54:26
Nicole & Reric
Thank you for your constructive comments with regard to gene-watson.com, all of which are very much appreciated. I will certainly take on board the remarks with regard to the over-use of the map of Texas on my pages.
I will also attempt to 'sort out' the problem with mouseovers on the first page of my site. I'm also considering what exactly I need to do with regard to dividing the biography up into separate pages too.
I have a query with regard to the picture of Gene that I have left-alligned on most pages. If I were to email either of you a copy of the original photo that I changed, would you be willing to perhaps remove the relevant text from it for me? Perhaps either of you may have a suggestion as to what I may put in place of this photo?! I basically require suggestions as to what I may us to fill up some 'space' within the pages.
Any help with all or some of the above would be very much appreciated. Microsoft Frontpage is certainly a learning curve for me!
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RE: gene-watson.com - 11/3/2004 7:32:47
HI sean,
You can send the picture to MANCHVEGASMEDIA AT GMAIL.com
and i can work the picture for you.
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RE: gene-watson.com - 11/10/2004 19:42:20
This isn't anything to do with a critique of my website, as I haven't updated it in recent days. My query, however, is as follows & does relate to my Gene Watson site: I wish to put a number of text links within a table. I can achieve this, but I then want to remove the upper & lower borders of the table & leave the left & right borders only, so the text appears to have a vertical line either side of it. But when I use the 'Cell Properties' option, I cannot achieve this feat. Anyone, anywhere, have a solution to my problem/query? Any assistance would be very much appreciated.
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RE: gene-watson.com - 11/10/2004 20:00:22
Hi Sean,
Do you mean like the navigation in this site?
I did that by using horizontal lines to separate the links.
Nicole
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RE: gene-watson.com - 11/11/2004 0:16:28
or if you know your way around css use one of the menus from here
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/
and just put left and right borders on each link
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RE: gene-watson.com - 11/20/2004 7:01:27
Nicole & Dave
Thank you for your recent suggestions with regard to 'Table' help - much appreciated! I have further updated my website dedicated to Texan country music artist Gene Watson (www.gene-watson.com) & would welcome any further comments/suggestions anyone may care to provide within this forum
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RE: gene-watson.com - 1/16/2005 19:50:36
Since November 2004, I have further updated my website dedicated to Texan country music artist Gene Watson (www.gene-watson.com) & would welcome any further comments/suggestions anyone may care to provide within this forum.
I wish to make a more prominent feature of the opening page & would appreciate any comments with this regard that anyone may be interested in supplying.
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RE: gene-watson.com - 1/16/2005 21:39:49
Hi Sean,
Maybe some of the things i don't like about the site now are just personal preferences. I can't remember what the site used to look like but i remember i liked it a lot, but now...
- I'm not keen on the idea of one colour image and the others being B & W. I know it's not a hugely colourful image, but to me it still stood out as "different".
- The second last B & W image is not the same shade of grey as the others.
- The first sentence under those photos is white and the rest is grey? There should also be a space between those paragraphs.
- Not too keen on the navigation being on the right, seems like a lot of wasted space with the links small compared to the dividing lines wide. The first two lines are white and the rest are blue and they seem to "jump" on mouseover maybe you have a slightly different font size? The "Site map" link doesn't "jump".
- Same with the links at the bottom of the page, same exactly actually, and i feel there should be a space before the "credits".
I only looked at one link (Introduction), and liked that layout much better, but i think i'd consider removing the links on the left if they're going to be at the top anyway? There also seemed to be a lot of space between those links and the "Introduction". If you removed those links, the page would probably appear all on the one page without any scrolling, but you'd have to remember that you'd have readers reading long lines across the screen that way. Not sure about the second pic of Gene there if you've already one in the header, and maybe he should be aligned to the right and mirror the photo so he's looking into the page rather than out.
So, i really do like this site Sean, it really gives a nice ambience with the fonts, colours and images you've used. I especially like the font and colours used in the "Introduction" title.
Nicole
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RE: gene-watson.com - 1/17/2005 19:44:39
Nicole
Thanks as always for your reply.
Your excellent comments with regard to my Gene Watson dedicated website are most welcome.
Here are a few comments with regard to some of the points you made:
I have changed the 'colour' image of Gene (standing) to black & white, so it matches the others on the page. I will also attempt to do something about the image that is slightly less grey than the other images of Gene.
I will change the colour of the text (under these images of Gene) to grey & will also put a space between these paragraphs. I will also make relevant changes to the text links on the homepage too.
I will also get rid of the text links on the left of all pages, if you think that would help my layout problems. You mentioned that you liked the look of the 'Introduction' page, but I have to say that the table is set to the same dimensions on this page as they are aon all the other pages. I have noted on other peoples PCs that some of my pages are, to put it midly, 'all over the place'. I'm not sure exactly how I can fix these problems, as I thought that by using tables, I could control most of the way the pages display.
BTW how do I achieve the effect of stopping long lines of text from displaying across a screen from left to right?
Ref. 'ot sure about the second pic of Gene there if you've already one in the header, and maybe he should be aligned to the right and mirror the photo so he's looking into the page rather than out'
I do have a mirror image of this shot; it's just I haven't utilised it yet. What do you propose I do with the header image; image only or text only perhaps?
Any help with any of my queries would be very much appreciated. Thanks again for your kind words of encouragement.
Regards,
Sean.
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RE: gene-watson.com - 1/17/2005 20:55:22
Hi Sean,
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I have noted on other peoples PCs that some of my pages are, to put it midly, 'all over the place'. I'm not sure exactly how I can fix these problems, as I thought that by using tables, I could control most of the way the pages display.
I looked at the opening and introduction pages in IE, Opera and Firefox at 1024 x 768 and 800 x 600 and there was no horizontal scrolling, these pages appeared okay to me but i'm unsure of what it is exactly that your wanting them to look like.
You can control the way your page displays using tables, but it can get complicated the more tables you have and whether you have tables inside tables etc. Be sure to try and set table widths using a % and not pixels, and make sure images are not wider than the tables they're in.
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BTW how do I achieve the effect of stopping long lines of text from displaying across a screen from left to right?
Split the main content cell into two columns, add whatever padding you're using and just split the text up to fit evenly between the two columns.
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What do you propose I do with the header image; image only or text only perhaps?
I think the header looks great the way it is.
You seem to be making a lot of changes to this site based on my preferences alone?
Nicole
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