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Trandel
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Site Makeover - 7/22/2002 6:03:33
Hi,
Please have a look at my site at www.iopsa.org.za.
I have just completed a ' makeover' and would welcome all comments.
Thanks and Regards
Tony Randell
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Gil
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RE: Site Makeover - 7/22/2002 10:59:39
Hmm - I get a blank white page with a - in the top left corner?
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john40004
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RE: Site Makeover - 7/22/2002 11:29:25
Hi Tony,
I looked at your site with IE 6.0 and resolution at 800 X 600. I saw the same thing as Gil, a white page with a dash in the upper-left corner.
John
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Stealth
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RE: Site Makeover - 7/22/2002 12:10:49
Hi Tony -
I was able to acccess your site by removing the last punctuation after za....I looked at the site in IE6 and NN4 on a T1.
The site looks nice in IE6, well laid out and organized.
On page - http://www.iopsa.org.za/IOPSA_newsletter.htm there was a broken image link for Manne.gif
When I tried to access the plumber registration file with the NOW link It returned -
http://oemcomputer/NewIOPSA/IOPSA_Plumber_Registration.htm a bad link.
Also the arrow at the bottom of IOPSA_home_page to items for sale is a bad link.
NN4 had some major problems with the site, no load at all on the home page, and subsequent pages would load then disappear. I am hoping someone else can confirm this.
Also the pages seemed to take a while to load, since I am on a large pipe, I am assuming it is a bad hop between me and the servers. Since size reports show what should be a quick load time.
Hope it helps, keep up the good work
STEALTH
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Trandel
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RE: RE: Site Makeover - 7/22/2002 15:41:45
Hi
Sorry about that - the address is www.iopsa.org.za i.e. without a period after za!
Regards
Tony Randell
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Trandel
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RE: RE: Site Makeover - 7/22/2002 16:03:31
Hi Stealth,
Thanks for your input - it is invaluable! One tries to check and test everything but links get resolved locally so everything seems to work for me!!
Anyway, I have fixed up the problems that you noted but am worried about NN4 - It should work apart from the DHTML msg re Managing Standards. I do use Java for the mouseovers (Mighty Mouseover code) but thought that would work also?
One wonders about NN - I have used Site Meter here and it tells me that only 1% of visitors are from NN - maybe because it doesnt load!!??)
I dont get excessive load times this end, but the server is in country (South Africa) and that will add to international visitors' response? (I am using a 56k link on dial up.)
Thanks and Regards
Tony Randell
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Charles W Davis
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RE: Site Makeover - 7/23/2002 12:18:24
Tony,
Also spent 23 years with IBM. Didn' t touch a PC until 5 years after an early retirement.
I noticed the SiteMeter logo on the home page and decided to take a look at it. The link took me to a signup page rather than the statistics. Is that the intent of the particular SiteMeter that you have used. I have always used the one that makes the stats available to anyone that is curious. Habit, I guess. Most of my early sites were for Chambers of Commerce and the members were always interested in being able to see the data.
I would change the name of the home page from " IOPSA_Home_page.htm"
to " default.htm" or " index.htm"
I reviewed your site in IE 6, NN 6.2.3, NN 4.76 and Opera 6. All went well except for NN 4.76 where the page didn' t load past the page header. I restarted the browser and had the same results.
Interesting! Your sponsor' s logos appear on most pages, the some guy by the name of Tony Randall gets a lot of attentions in that right border.
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Gil
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RE: Site Makeover - 7/23/2002 13:09:54
Why have the first page (the index page) with no information or content and force your visitors to click just to enter where they should be to start with? A growing number of search engines do not read meta tags and will look for " content" to index - having no content on the index page will not help.
I also noticed no ALT attributes on any of your images.
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Trandel
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RE: Site Makeover - 7/24/2002 14:33:42
Hi All.
Thanks for your comments and suggestions.
I have implemented a new default page as suggested and have also put in alt text for images.
Am still concerned about NN 4.76 not working and will look into it.
Regards
Tony R
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