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Alien Freak
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From: Lakeland Florida USA
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Newbie's First Site - 12/18/2001 14:21:23
Hello All -
In June I agreed to create my company's website. I thought to myself, having no web design experience at all, "This will be an adventure!". And it was. I've learned soo much in the last 5 months from both this forum and the dozens of books I've gathered. Not only did I create my company's website, I realized that I finally knew what I wanted to do when I grow up. 
Well, after 5 months of learning, reading, testing and visiting this website, I've got something that resembles a website. Now I need your full opinion - dont hold anything back on my account. I'm excepting all critiques good and bad on design, usability, etc. The only thing is on one or two pages, they are still under construction. I'm still working on the forms for those pages (more complicated than I thought). The site is here:
www.hytechpetroleum.com
Thank you in advance for your help.
You can not have yin without yang.
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garry
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RE: Newbie's First Site - 12/18/2001 18:25:05
Good Morning Alien Freak
Get to work on the Meta Tags for each page...
Try a plain color cell background in the tables on your "products page"....it looked to noisey with the graph background.
And a tip...try an "include page" for your nav buttons, before your site gets bigger.
Coming along nicely
Cheers
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Alien Freak
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RE: Newbie's First Site - 12/19/2001 9:11:15
Thanks you guys. I really appreciate your feedback.
Garry - I know this is going to sound stupid, but bare with me. What exactly is an include page and how would I use it?
I was considering using the center logo to go back to the home page instead of the email link. I agree with you, Non-Profit, about that. Also, I realized the PEI logo looks a bit blurry, even after I tried cleaning it up in Paint Shop Pro.
Thanks again, and I am still welcoming critiques.
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garry
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RE: Newbie's First Site - 12/19/2001 22:55:36
OK it may be overkill on this site....but get into the habit and it can save you pain in years to come.
Copy your Nav table to a page on its own & call it 'include nav'. (just leave it sitting all lonely looking on its own page)
In fact copy the whole top banner including your nav buttons....as it is the same throughout your site)
Go back to your main page & delete the original nav buttons table, header images etc and go ( with the cursor sitting at the top middle of the page> to INSERT> COMPONENT > INCLUDE PAGE and then browse for 'include nav' and push that button.
And there you go....the page is looking the same as it was a few minutes ago.....do this to all your other pages, so everything now has the banner/nav as in include page.
Benefits of this are when the Boss says " OK Alien I think we need a few new page titles added to the navigation and the logo should now be a green colour and a bit smaller" You say ...."Boss,that will take me hours, but I will do it" and trot off to the PC and modify 1 page only in 2 mins flat ( you know..the "include nav' page and all of the sudden every page automatically updates.
This gives you 1 hour and 58 mins to sit back and relax with a smirk on your face, knowing you had a win.
THe background on each other page should be a " get background info from index page" at the bottom of your FORMAT> backround tab ( page properties)....so when the boss says "Alien....that background would look lovely in beige???......"
You only need to modify the index page colour and it follows suit throughout the whole site.
Cheers from the Outback
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) and everything worked for me in IE 5. I didn't try all the links on the products page, nor did I try NN. 