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slbergh Posts: 322 Joined: 11/8/2002 From: Iowa Status: offline	Personal site finally revised - 5/21/2007 0:32:12 Since I'm starting to do more consulting, I decided it was time to finally redo my own site. This is the first time I've done a site with this much emphasis on visuals. Please let me know what you think. My personal site Oh, and if anyone knows why there's a page "flash" when navigating the site in IE (that doesn't appear in FF), please let me know! _____________________________ Digital data lasts forever...or 5 years, whichever comes first!


jaybee Posts: 14097 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: Personal site finally revised - 5/21/2007 5:45:04 Flaming heck Sherry, the site is beautifully designed but where the heck is the text? The pages are nearly all empty. The front page needs stuff about what you do. The web gallery page, two lines of text telling people that what you've done is no longer around and then a link to a flash thing. Get rid of the Flash. Put some thumbnails on the initial page. "These are sites I've done." OK, so they're no longer on the web... host them on your own server so people can look or just provide full screen shots. You don't have to link to actual sites. If I'm commissioning work from you being told that none of it is around any more will immediately make me want to know why. Are the sites so bad that the company went bust? Did they dump them for something better. If you can't do that or they were old sites that you're no longer proud of then do some new ones. Do some charity stuff or local groups cheap or free. You can pretty much guarantee those won't disappear. Do some site mock-ups. "You can have this template for your business". As it stands that site is selling nothing. _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to slbergh)


jaybee Posts: 14097 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: Personal site finally revised - 5/21/2007 5:51:01 The page "flash" is because it's nearly all graphics, it takes time to load them and whilst that happens you will see the unstyled content. Set the page background colour to something similar to the background image, that way it won't look so obvious. In addition, you're not helping yourself by the way you're calling stylesheets. If you have firefox, get the web developer toolbar and install it the click the css button and select edit css, you'll see 4 tabs which show you the stylesheets the page is trying to load. The first is layout.css and contains: quote: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE> </HEAD><BODY> <H1>Not Found</H1> The requested URL /~slbergh/media/css/layout.css was not found on this server.<P> </BODY></HTML> Then you have two style.css files then embedded styles for the @import. You don't need all that. Just have the one sheet and call it with one line..... <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"media="screen" href="style.css" /> < Message edited by jaybee -- 5/21/2007 5:57:04 > _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to jaybee)


slbergh Posts: 322 Joined: 11/8/2002 From: Iowa Status: offline	RE: Personal site finally revised - 5/21/2007 10:36:22 I know I'm still light on text. Since this is hosted on our university servers (in my free webspace), I wanted to make sure it was going to work before anything else. Plus, I have to be careful how things are worded. We can't technically use our personal space for any type of advertising, commercial or personal. If it's a showcase site, though... Someday, when I have time, I'll finally build a business website for my husband and me. Thanks for the look and comments! _____________________________ Digital data lasts forever...or 5 years, whichever comes first! (in reply to jaybee)