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Please critque! - 12/5/2005 9:57:58
Hi There,
A new website I just made for a local Pilates -etc, Studio. www.chibalancecenter.com
Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
-Steve
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RE: Please critque! - 12/5/2005 12:02:16
Hi Steve
Nice clear bright and inviting site.
I notice that the site does not resize for smaller screens and therefore a horizontal sidebar will come into operation. I think you need to have a look at this.
Also there is a little white square bottom left for some reason. (viewing in FF).
Your pages are showing a some errors and warnings. Also there is no DOCTYPE declaration. You may wish to tidy this up.
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RE: Please critque! - 12/5/2005 13:14:48
for a business site, I think the logo is amateurish.
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RE: Please critque! - 12/5/2005 13:50:36
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ORIGINAL: golfer
I notice that the site does not resize for smaller screens and therefore a horizontal sidebar will come into operation. I think you need to have a look at this.
I know, I don't know why that always happens to me! Any ideas on how to fix that?
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ORIGINAL: golfer
Also there is a little white square bottom left for some reason. (viewing in FF).
Yeah, I noticed that too. I don't know how to get rid of that. Seems none of my sites look right in FF! Any ideas on fixing that would be appreciated too!
-Steve
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RE: Please critque! - 12/5/2005 15:05:56
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Also the bullet images don't line up with the list items in Firefox.
Yeah, another FF issue I noticed. Are there issues with Frontpage sites viewed using FF, or am I just not doing something right?
Thanks,
-Steve
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RE: Please critque! - 12/5/2005 16:11:50
If you don't have any Firefox extensions get this one it will tell you where your code is wrong well most of it any way Html Validator
Or use W3C validator to help
They will tell you what might be messing thing up for you
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RE: Please critque! - 12/5/2005 16:59:07
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Seems none of my sites look right in FF! Any ideas on fixing that would be appreciated too!
For future reference this axiom is worth remembering and sticking to:
Design for Firefox, Check in Opera and then Fix for Internet Explorer.
Firefox is the most standards compliant of them all, so a site that works in FF will normally work in other browsers.
The banner (Why Not Try Pilates) is rough and amateurish, and looks like poor Word art.
Also, your code is bulked out and bloated by proprietary Word coding. That could be causing problems in FF too.
If you need to paste text from Word, always paste it to Notepad first, then from Notepad to FrontPage. That strips all the junk formatting.
You should consider using a different gallery to the FP one, because it deliberately adds thick grey borders in non-IE browsers.
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RE: Please critque! - 12/5/2005 22:44:10
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ORIGINAL: Kitka
The banner (Why Not Try Pilates) is rough and amateurish, and looks like poor Word art.
I agree with you on that. It is in fact Word Art.
Any suggestions on how I can improve that without the use of Word Art?
Thanks,
-Steve
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RE: Please critque! - 12/5/2005 23:03:22
I added a DOCTYPE. Can anyone tell me if I used the correct one?
Thanks
-Steve
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RE: Please critque! - 12/6/2005 8:56:29
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I added a DOCTYPE. Can anyone tell me if I used the correct one?
Thanks
-Steve
That's the one I'd use if I were you - you just need to ensure you're using the correct code according to that DOCTYPE - I haven't run your page through the W3C validator - but my FF validator plugin (which doesn't seem to always catch errors) says there are 4 actual errors in the code - all to do with the <picture> tag which isn't valid code - is it a FrontPage thing, I've not seen it before?
If that tag is absolutely necessary to your page then you obviously have to leave it in - but it's always a good idea to see if you can fix it first.
The problem with FP (at least the older versions) is that it's designed to allow pages to display in IE - which is a non-standard browser. It doesn't much care about other browsers or web standards.
I have no idea how IE7 - which is supposed to be more standard compliant - will deal with all the proprietory stuff that FP stuck into most of it's sites over the years....
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RE: Please critque! - 12/6/2005 12:48:03
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<picture> tag which isn't valid code - is it a FrontPage thing, I've not seen it before?
I use FP and have never seen it before either, so are you crafting this page in Frontpage Design View, or in Word? The code is stuffed with Office type code which makes it look as if you have done it in Word and then brought it straight in to FP. We need to know the methods you are using before advising you about doctypes etc.
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RE: Please critque! - 12/6/2005 13:51:31
amateur site
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RE: Please critque! - 12/6/2005 14:59:02
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amateur site
Of course it is! WTF?!?! If I was a pro at this I wouldn't be asking for help now, would I?
Dude, this is a site I put together for someone FOR FREE!!! They are quite satisfied with it, I'm just trying to go the extra mile by improving it as much as possible.
Talk about amateur!?!?! Nice reply. All of the experienced pros who have commented on my site so far have all given me valuable assistance and suggestions on things I need to fix.
Thanks, but I didn't need you to tell me I'm an amateur. I never claimed to be anything else.
-Steve
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RE: Please critque! - 12/6/2005 15:05:27
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<picture> tag which isn't valid code - is it a FrontPage thing, I've not seen it before?
I use FP and have never seen it before either, so are you crafting this page in Frontpage Design View, or in Word? The code is stuffed with Office type code which makes it look as if you have done it in Word and then brought it straight in to FP. We need to know the methods you are using before advising you about doctypes etc.
Yeah thats strange. I didn't put the PICTURE tag there. I created this completely in FP2003. No word or Notepad, etc. However, It is based on a free template which I downloaded from some site. I changed most of the template to suite my needs.
Could that have something to do with it, like if the template was made for an older version of FP?
-Steve
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