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Xylina Posts: 39 Joined: 9/1/2005 Status: offline	Honest Opinions please. - 9/5/2005 13:35:09 I would really appreciate some honest opinions about my website. I have never created a website before, and I have been only using Frontpage 2003 for about a month. Thank you, Jennifer


Mike54 Posts: 4870 Joined: 3/26/2001 From: Way Up Over Status: offline	RE: Honest Opinions please. - 9/5/2005 14:13:47 Ahem, you do have a link don't you? _____________________________ Who was the first guy that looked at a cow and said, "I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them"? New photogalleries, stop by sometime. Or you could just view the old stuff. Old photogalleries (in reply to Xylina)


Xylina Posts: 39 Joined: 9/1/2005 Status: offline	RE: Honest Opinions please. - 9/5/2005 14:34:41 Sorry yeah, it's http://coxandcompany.tripod.com Can you say Duh? Jennifer (in reply to Mike54)


RickP Posts: 724 Joined: 11/13/2004 From: Kent, U.K. Status: offline	RE: Honest Opinions please. - 9/5/2005 16:52:28 Hi Jenifer! It looks impressive to me for a first! - overall I assume you're using free hosting and that is all their ads at the top? It'd be much better to pay a few quid and have your own domain and hosting without ads. The navigation looks okay but all of that javascript and all of those images weigh heavy on the page and the transition from page to page is not as smooth as it could be. Why have a 'guestbook' on a serious site like that? If you want to keep that feature, I'd style it "customer feedback" or "visitor feedback" etc. But... BTW, the page has problems - the navigation doesn't work on it! Re your "mailto" link. Not a good idea as it will get your email address harvested by spam-bots and you'll be swamped with nasty mail! A web-form is much more professional, more easily accessible to your visitors and, if you use the right methods, secure from spam-bots. That's a few to be going on with, hope they help Pretty good job so far _____________________________ Regards, Rick On-The-Web-Now! (in reply to Xylina)


Tailslide Posts: 6756 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	RE: Honest Opinions please. - 9/5/2005 17:25:21 Does that Tripod ad mean that it's on Free space? _____________________________ Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Land Rover project (in reply to RickP)


Brandon Posts: 433 Joined: 7/13/2004 From: Indiana, US Status: offline	RE: Honest Opinions please. - 9/5/2005 19:07:04 Tailslide...yes that's Tripod's free hosting ads.....over all the site looks good....nice and clean...If this is for a business I would really consider paying for hosting.... _____________________________ ~ Brandon (in reply to Tailslide)


Xylina Posts: 39 Joined: 9/1/2005 Status: offline	RE: Honest Opinions please. - 9/5/2005 19:52:35 First of all, the tripod site is just so I can test things. Second, I was just trying out the guestbook thing to see if I could help someone else, it's already gone. How do I do it so that email addresses cannot be harvested by bots? Thanks for the input. Jennifer (in reply to Brandon)


Tailslide Posts: 6756 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	RE: Honest Opinions please. - 9/6/2005 3:07:05 Hi Jennifer I'm glad that the Tripod thingy won't be there on the completed site - it wouldn't lend an air of professionalism. With E-mail addresses there are a couple of ways of hiding them from the bots - none are foolproof unfortunately but you can certainly cut down the amount of rubbish you receive. First way is to hide the address using Javascript - there are loads of scripts out there that do this. If you go this route make sure you have an image with the e-mail address on it in <noscript> tags in case Javascript is switched off in the reader's browser (they'd get no address at all otherwise). I tend to use e-mail obfuscation instead just to keep the amount of JS down. This basically subtitutes special ISO and Hex characters for the letters/numbers that make up the e-mail address. Most spam bots can't read this (yet). Here's a link to a site where you can plug in your email address and it will give you back the obfuscated code (it's very very long!): http://www.seowebsitepromotion.com/obfuscate_email.asp Just literally copy and paste it into the code. It will look the same on the page itself as when it was normal text. _____________________________ Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Land Rover project (in reply to Xylina)


womble Posts: 6275 Joined: 3/14/2005 From: Living on the edge Status: offline	RE: Honest Opinions please. - 9/6/2005 5:47:36 Hi Jennifer, Nice site! I wasn't sure about the blue and beige, but it's growing on me now. I know it's a serious business site, but you could do with a few pics to liven things up a little and break the text up so it's not quite so tiring on the eye. Graphics can be expensive, but Istockphoto and stock.xchng are good for cheap/free photos. On istockphoto in particular they seem to have a lot of business orientated photos, so you could try there. _____________________________ ~~ "A cruel god ain't no god at all" ~~ ~~ Erase hate. Practice love. ~~ (in reply to Tailslide)


Xylina Posts: 39 Joined: 9/1/2005 Status: offline	RE: Honest Opinions please. - 9/6/2005 22:33:47 K, I have tried the e-mail obfuscation, and it seems to be working, could you take a look to see if I did it right? Thanks, Jennifer (in reply to Tailslide)


Tailslide Posts: 6756 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	RE: Honest Opinions please. - 9/7/2005 2:52:41 Hi Jennifer Almost there. You need to take this bit of "visible" code out: <a href="mailto: as the long line of gibberish actually includes that so you'd be repeating it leaving it in. _____________________________ Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Land Rover project (in reply to Xylina)

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