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I have two old rusty web sites running which were built some 8 yrs ago with haste, built with frames, left, top and bottom, using html and some other scripts.

I am considering building a photography site on the simaler bases but with less clutter & just two frames, top and bottom, or maybe left menu right main page, would it work ?.

If any of you have the time can you my old site and tell me if it appears on your screen well (Size wise etc), please forget about the content it really needs cleaning & updating.
Site can be found in my profile and contact info...

thanks..
 
How much would you be updating the site?? If it is going to be something that is regularly added to then a CMS maybe a good idea, such as joomla. If not, then a simple html site formatted with CSS would suffice!!

CSS can be used to create the look of your site, so all that would be in your html file would be your content. W3 Schools (google it) is a good place to pick up the basics :)
 
Thanks PC for your reply, i was more interested to know how the site opened on various viewers, such as the size, if i was to build a new site using the bases on my site, i wanted to know it can be viewed simply. ( i think thats what i mean :'()...

CSS i am not sure how to use that at this time, need to make myself more aware of its uses, i was thinking of using microsoft frontpage which iam not sure if it has the CSS.

Checking out the W3 schooling..

as i said very very rusty....

Thaks
 
Ah right, many apologies!!

Well with a basic site, in html I'm pretty sure all browsers will be able to view it fine...it is when you start adding fancy bits, such as java apps, flash, database driven stuff etc in that they render them differently. If you stick to a design size of say 1024x768 then that is adequate for most web users these days, and also gives you a lot more room to play with over a site designed at 800x600.

It terms of simplicity, then you can't go far wrong with horizontal sections to your site. A banner at the top, saying what site it is, followed by a navigation section (looking at your site, could you perhaps make some interactive type drop down menus to reduce the amount of information on the screen at any one time?) and then finally have your content section :)

I hope this is what you mean! :)
 
Nice one PC, yes thats it, yes the interactive drop down menus is somthing i have thought about for some time, but never got round to it, but it would work much better i know..
I think there is a lot to be learn't from the WS schooling which i had a look at..
Thanks for your time and help...



purpleclouds said:
Ah right, many apologies!!

Well with a basic site, in html I'm pretty sure all browsers will be able to view it fine...it is when you start adding fancy bits, such as java apps, flash, database driven stuff etc in that they render them differently. If you stick to a design size of say 1024x768 then that is adequate for most web users these days, and also gives you a lot more room to play with over a site designed at 800x600.

It terms of simplicity, then you can't go far wrong with horizontal sections to your site. A banner at the top, saying what site it is, followed by a navigation section (looking at your site, could you perhaps make some interactive type drop down menus to reduce the amount of information on the screen at any one time?) and then finally have your content section :)

I hope this is what you mean! :)
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Well, i only have about 800 hits on my site so far (in sig) but the res people are using are not 800x600 ! far from it !


 
The last month's stats (4000 odd visits) for my site shows a slightly different story:

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1.  1024x768   1,650  39.69%  
2.  1280x800     662  15.92%  
3.  1280x1024    630  15.16%  
4.  1680x1050    437  10.51%  
5.  1440x900     225  5.41%  
6.  800x600      133  3.20%  
7.  1152x864     104  2.50%  
8.  1280x768      85  2.04%  
9.  1920x1200     51  1.23%  
10. 1280x960      36  0.87%

I think the target audience is important here, most of my visits are from Joe Public that are either existing or potential customers.
 
If you are upgrading your site, please DO NOT use frames. Search engines cannot map them, navigation can go wrong unless you tweak it with javascript and in the upcoming HTML 5 spec, frames will be depracated. CSS is the way to go, it is not difficult, get a book from the library about it and have a play.
 
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