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Be kind neophite first site.... - 9/2/2005 1:29:00
http://www.troop245.com
This is my first effort at a page.
Given other reviews I am adequately braced..... 
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GMisner
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RE: Be kind neophite first site.... - 9/2/2005 9:34:12
Womble,
Thanks for the input. I will work immediately on the fonts, etc.. "Never noticed the home but your right"
The top banner was given to me by someone else....
I will see if I can clean it up.
As to opening multiple windows. I was looking for screen space adults page etc... Is there a better way to approach this?.
Thanks again.
Gary M.
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RE: Be kind neophite first site.... - 9/2/2005 16:18:18
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I was thinking of changing all the navigation menus to be buttons ... Would that clear it up or should I look to other option
Yep, graphic buttons are one way to do it, so long as you keep it consistent throughout all pages on the site. Text links are fine too, and in fact have some advantages over graphic links if you're thinking about search engines and all (big subject!). Text is simple and quicker to do too BUT... you must 'somehow' make it instantly clear to visitors that 'these are links' and 'this is content'.
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GMisner
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RE: Be kind neophite first site.... - 9/2/2005 18:59:14
Alt tag???
I have buttons on the handbook. are they done right...
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RE: Be kind neophite first site.... - 9/3/2005 1:31:34
changing the size in FP will display a pic of say 800 x 600 px (at 200kb) at for e.g. 400 x 300px (but still at 200k) using resample will actually resize the picture itself to 400 x 300px and the filesize will therefore be reduced as well.
aim for about 50k as a page maximum, including stylesheets, javascript, images, html etc, though for your kind of site that i imagine will ba a a bit heavy on the photos then around 100k a page shouldn't be too much of a burden for those on dialup and other slower connections
if you want people to be able to print then i would link to a larger original image for them to see (just link directly to the larger image file) and use a reasonable amount of compression on the smaller image - it just takes a little bit of practice to get a good trade off between image quality and dowload time :)
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GMisner
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RE: Be kind neophite first site.... - 9/3/2005 1:41:23
Dave,
Got it.... Thanks!
Gary M.
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Printable Version 
(I told you it was getting late in the day and I'm not concentrating properly! 
) (potentially an accessibility problem, but a discussion best reserved for the accessibility forum). On some of the links in the menu though, you have for example <a target="_blank" href="../Handbook/Handbook.htm">. It's the target="_blank" that's causing a new browser window. That in itself can be a problem, partly because you end up with loads of windows open, but also from an accessibility point of view (for example for screen reader users who suddenly find themselves on another page) - your other problem though is that after being whisked off to a new page, on some of the pages the navigation seems to be broken, so you've no way of getting back to where you started from.
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