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Please take a look at a site im building for my photography.

This is 'work in progress' & the pictures loaded are for testing purposes.

How does it look to you all?

Any advice would be appreciated as this is my first attempt at this stuff :thumbs:

Thanks in advance.

http://www.paulwrightphotography.co.uk/
 
Hi, I like the front page, clean design and the menu is easy to find.

I'm not sure about all of the links opening in a new page as you have them. I personally have a seperate page with a list of galleries and then open a fresh window from there. Importantly, I have a button to close the new window and take the viewer back to the menu. Feel free to copy my coding for the button on my website if its any use to you.

Looking good so far!

Lee
 
I really like the layout, but not sure about the font you've used for the titles etc - looked quite pixelated on my monitor as though the font was too large.
 
Seems like you're off to a good start:thumbs: The pictures load quickly(perhaps they could afford to be a tad bigger). I like the fact that the next/back arrows stay in the same place.No problems with the font on my laptop.

Being really picky,you could do with changing the 2 lowercase "i" for capitals and you can afford to get rid of all those apostrophes in photo's,car's,interest's and bike's.
 
Hi guys & thanks for the advice :thumbs:

All the advice has been taken onboard & i will be having a play with
the site this week.

The pages opening in a new window will be adjusted & a link back to the
'home' page will be functional.

As i mentioned,this is my first effort so all comments are very helpful ;)

I will keep you posted.
 
Lee D said:
I'm not sure about all of the links opening in a new page as you have them. I personally have a seperate page with a list of galleries and then open a fresh window from there. Importantly, I have a button to close the new window and take the viewer back to the menu. Feel free to copy my coding for the button on my website if its any use to you.

Looking good so far!

Lee
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Well ive just a little look at changing the gallery pages to open in
the 'same window' but now i remember why i set it like that in the
first place - the 'home' button on the gallery pages isnt editable
at this moment as its still in the Beta stages :wall:

Therefore,any potential viewer who managed to click through say
100 pics would have to repeatedly hit the back button to return to
the home page ;)

Is Macromedia any good as my friend has given me a copy?

I may well have a go at making a site myself as obstacles like the above
isnt going to do me any favours.
 
snoop69 said:
Is Macromedia any good as my friend has given me a copy?

I may well have a go at making a site myself as obstacles like the above
isnt going to do me any favours.
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Macromedia was a software company which was taken over by Adobe. Are you referring to Dreamweaver. My site was created using dreamweaver and I find it very easy to use. I do pretty much everything in design view as I have no knowledge of coding whatsoever. For my galleries I used a template then edited it in Dreamweaver.
 
Mr picky here,

First Page:
interests has no apostrophe;
the personal pronoun is always a capital letter (I not i);
A raw email address on a page is an invitation to spammers;
You appear to have a margin down the left of the main column, yet none on the right;
As above, photos, cars & bikes have no apostrophe (in this context);
The contrast between your links and the background is a bit low so make the gallery link text size a bit larger.

Galleries:
You need to think about how people will navigate your site; there is no "back to home" link from say, the wedding album. When I say "back to home" I mean the main site not the home page of the wedding gallery.

Aside from that, looking good.

B.
 
BenMottram said:
Mr picky here,

Galleries:
You need to think about how people will navigate your site; there is no "back to home" link from say, the wedding album. When I say "back to home" I mean the main site not the home page of the wedding gallery.

Aside from that, looking good.

B.
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Thanks bud - it is something i just knocked up as im new to this ;)

See post #7 for the 'back to home' reasons - its not possible as the gallery
is in its Beta stages :(

All comments taken on board for the future as i think i will be boycotting
this hosts templates :thumbs:
 
I think you have made an excellent start.
Other people have picked up on the errant apostrophes.
I had a quick peek at the source code and I have a couple of suggestions.
1. Move the styling into an external style sheet. Then validate it using the validator on http://www.w3c.org
By using an external stylesheet, it means that if you want to change the look and feel of the site, you make a change in just one place, whereas with your current set-up, you will have to make changes in multiple places, thereby increasing the likelihood of errors.
2. Validate your html using the validator at the address above. There are some errors in the tags - for example, <P align=justify> should read <P align="justify">.
3. Try and test the site on as many browsers as you can. IE is quite tolerant of errant html, whereas Firefox and Opera will be less forgiving and so are a good way to check your code.
When the site is live, it's worth putting a site meter on it. I use one from http://www.sitemeter.com. They are free and the statistics make fascinating reading.
4. Have a look at http://www.w3schools.org - there are loads of tutorials on css, html xhtml and so on.

For a really good book on CSS, there's one by Martin Collinson published by Apress that gets my vote. Well worth a read and it's quite entertaining too.

I'll be interested to see how the site develops. Keep up the good work!

Cheers


Mark
 
kiasdad said:
<P align=justify> should read <P align="justify">.
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It should be
Code: 
<p>content</p>

.css file
Code: 
p{
    text-align: justify ;
**

Style and content should be kept seperate, thats the purpose of CSS.
 
Greendots said:
It should be
Code: 
<p>content</p>

.css file
Code: 
p{
    text-align: justify ;
**

Style and content should be kept seperate, thats the purpose of CSS.
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Agreed. I was just trying to point out the syntactical errors in the page.

Cheers

Mark
 
Hiya,

Getting there now, however, IMHO, you have too many colours and too many fonts.... An old typesetter once said to me "Use one fount; if your life depends on it, use two;only if the world is coming to an end use three."

The dark blue on black is potentially tricky to read and italic bold white on black in 8 point is almost impossible. Your eyes may be better than mine of course.

Oh and a 403 forbidden isn't a good message to have displayed when I click on the Wedding Gallery ;)

B.
 
Hi all,

The original template has been scrapped & im working on a new one.

What you see at the moment is just me messing with layouts etc :thumbs:
 
Snoop beleive me the replies do help as my site looked like a 9yr old designed it till this lot offered their advice and I took it , now its a different site completely and it works albeit needing some more work but altogether its 100% better than it started so good luck and take the advice
 
Dangermouse1964 said:
Snoop beleive me the replies do help as my site looked like a 9yr old designed it till this lot offered their advice and I took it ,
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I agree,the comments have helped a lot.

What i meant was that the recent comments are based on what they
see now.

I should have written 'Site Under Contruction' to avoid comments on
a site that hasnt been finished yet :thumbs:
 
Hi all,

My site has been slightly re-hashed & the gallery pages no longer
open in new windows :thumbs:

I have entered the Url into this site as advised & im getting 22 errors
which have gone straight over my head.

http://validator.w3.org/

Can anyone offer any advice please :shrug:

Thanks in advance.
 
Hi Mark,

Im down to Tentatively passed, 1 warning(s) :D

I flagged 'Clean up Markup with HTML Tidy' & revalidated it.
It then gave me a text doc which i copied/pasted.

I never noticed that before when i had 23 errors :lol:

This is how it stands so far :-

No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.

None of the standards sources gave any information on the character encoding labeling for this document. Without encoding information it is impossible to reliably validate the document. As a fallback solution, the "UTF-8" encoding was used to read the content and attempt to perform the validation, but this is likely to fail for all non-trivial documents.
 
Good progress - well done.
This is what I've got in my HTML...

See http://www.monomagic.co.uk for more info...

This goes before the <html> tag.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

This goes in the <head> section.
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Hope it helps.

Cheers

Mark
 
Personally I would get the site done in PHP.

I'm no expert, no qualifications in website buolding, but through following others' examples from weather websites & forums, I did my own template and reworked it.
Now only the middle content changes, the Header and Menu don't change and are always readily accessible.
I have a photo page (of sorts, it's not a photography showcase, just something local) that's just a free script, and once again the main core of the site stays where it is, making it easy to use and cuts down download times.

Have a look if interested in PHP http://www.halling-weather.co.uk/index.php

But a good start nonetheless. :)
 
I agree. PHP is definitely worth a look. It really helps to make a site dynamic. My own site is mainly php. This means that if I want to add a new picture to a gallery, all I have to do is load the image into the relevant directory and the scripts automatically include it in the gallery.
It's especially good when combined with Javascript (a technique known as AJAX).

However, for someone with limited knowledge of html or programming, it could be a step too far.

It also assumes that your service provider offers php.

If you're serious about developing a website using php, then it's worthwhile setting up an old pc with linux, apache, php and mysql (known as a LAMP server) to do your development work on. My server runs on a machine that was originally bought in 1998.
Another option worth exploring on a more modern machine might be to run a virtual machine,

Ubuntu comes highly recommended for the Linux distribution.
 
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