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Hotel site - 6/27/2002 12:17:14
Just a template really at the moment, though a template of a home page.
Is it a bit twee and precious? The idea is to have a country/trad feel but at the same time clean and not too fussy.
http://www.ballyglasshouse.com/
Just occurs to me that I never say anywhere that it is Ireland - I suppose it may be a bit much to expect the entire world to know where the Glen of Aherlow is!!  Will change that.
All and any comments are as always greatly appreciated.
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RE: Hotel site - 6/27/2002 12:33:37
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The idea is to have a country/trad feel but at the same time clean and not too fussy.
I think you got a winner!
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RE: Hotel site - 6/27/2002 13:35:25
nice layout and colors.
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RE: Hotel site - 6/28/2002 12:54:21
It' s lovely Katherine,
I really like the color combo, with their intricate subtleties.
But I do have some very first impressions understanding that I don' t know what else you' re working on so a lot can change.
It' s very symmetrical. Not necessarily a bad thing. But if you cut the page in half you' d have almost identical images.
I' d try making the leaves on each side have more variety, some overlapping, slight variation to spacing, etc. Just like real leaves. It would make them look less like a border just pasted on each side. I' d also like to see a slight drop shadow coming from the garland. They wouldn' t even have to " end" at the same base level as they hang there.
I don' t know if you designed the logo and have any liberty at all to change it, but if so, I' d try making the tree look more dimensional. Lots of options here.
If the logo can' t be changed, I' d play with adding a hint of texture somewhere, so subtle that one can hardly see it. Something to take away from the overall flatness as the page looks at this initial stage.
gail
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RE: Hotel site - 7/8/2002 21:07:57
Katherine,
I love it.
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It' s very symmetrical. Not necessarily a bad thing.
I actually think the symmetry adds something to this site and the (40) shades of green go very well.
The home page is a perfect fit on my screen (1024 x 768) and could almost be a window to the rest of the site.
Certainly stirs up those thoughts I have of travelling to Ireland.
Regards
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RE: Hotel site - 7/9/2002 6:39:39
Hello Katherine,
Did you move the sight? I just tried to get a peek and got caught in some kind of loop then my browser crashed. Tried several times, 2 different machines, it happened with both IE and NN.
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RE: Hotel site - 7/9/2002 6:53:49
Oops!
Thanks Mike, had you not posted that I might not have realised what I did until who knows when!!
It should be ok now.
What I did was this, in case you are interested.
The index page of that site is index.shtml, and the site is FTPed, not published. I also have a file in it called index.htm which is a redirect page to the main url.
I pop that page into directories that have no ' real' pages in them, such as the images directory, includes etc, so that if people type in the URL to the directory instead of getting the screen saying they are not allowed to browse the directory they are just redirected to the home page.
I accidently uploaded that file to the main directory so you were caught up in a redirection loop. Sorry!
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_gail
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RE: Hotel site - 7/9/2002 7:44:37
I do think that the symmetry has changed from the original since Katherine first posted two weeks ago.
About the leaves, right-clicker and save-as person that I am when studying how others create graphics, I' m intrigued by the way you set this up. The leaves are actually a graphic 758 X 49 pixels which tile down perfectly no matter what length of a page. Am I correct?
Can you tell us something about how this is done Katherine?
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RE: Hotel site - 7/9/2002 9:08:46
It' s a table background. The leaves and the ' border' , which is not really a border, it is part of the image, are all a small background image that as you say tiles down the table regardless of its length.
I just made a small image of two leaves. I then made a plain white image the width I wanted, placed the leave on it, drew the ' border' line sort of through them and that was that. But to make it slightly less symetrical I then stuck two images of the leaves one on top of the other and cropped them so that the sequence was slightly different on each side, if that makes sense.
The content is not actually in that table, it is in a table nested inside it which in turn has a backgournd image - a transparent gif - to ensure that the background of the main table shows through.
The tops, where the leaves curl over the border at the top of the page, are the same leaves rotated in various ways and cut so that they meet the background properly. They are in a different table entirely, actually a different file, as the are in a header include.
Takes a little fiddling to get it all looking right but it is an easy way to get that sort of effect using relatively small images.
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RE: Hotel site - 7/9/2002 11:06:13
Very nice Katherine,
Simple, attractive and informative. Beautiful!
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