Webinventions

[L_Plates]

Hello all,

Just thought you may like to see my site and give any ideas you think will improve it.

Thanks Link in sig or click here

 

[(Shovel)]

Well, I'd advise you to learn some CSS for layout, but to be honest for something as simple as that it looks fine using tables.

Fixed width layout is also a bit unfashionable - consider people running higher resolutions with so much "white-space" unfilled with content.

The menus: Not keen on the image rollovers at all - you can achieve and identical effect using CSS, which wont take up anything like as much bandwidth. Put the following into a stylesheet, either at the top of the page of in a separate .css file:

a.menu {
    color: #FFF;
   background: transparent;
}

a.menu:hover {
   background: #00F;
}

Then, when you make a link in your menu:

[url="yada"]Yada[/url]

Sorry, I sound like I'm ripping it apart... erm.. The layout is good - it's tidy, there's no cluttering crap. I do rather like the logo too, it's attractive but not "in your face".

 

[L_Plates]

No all comments welcome. And i will take note of your ideas. Ill have a look at the css later tonight.

Thanks

 

[wyrd_fish]

the colour need changing in the gallery to make links visible, but other than that its looking propper bo'

PS. can i be an affiliate???

 

[evilmonkeh]

im not sure about you, but i have been constantly fighting with a layout for my site.
i really want to get content in it, but ive never made a gfx layout that i was happy with, after 7-8 attempts.
so now i am just going to do a basic html site with the odd graphic in it. a bit like yours, as now adays with most websites being so over graphic'd and with all rounded edges n all that shite that they all look the same.....
hmm

anyway, your layout is nice and clear, concice and to the point. only think i might consider is changing the menu from images to text - that is the links like phpBB

http://www.evilmonkeh.co.uk

 

[L_Plates]

Im glad you like.

Ill have a look at the links very soon but just one small question

Do the images work right away when you roll over them or are they slow to appear.?

 

[wyrd_fish]

you could do that with the following JS

<td onMouseover="bgcolor='#someothercolour'" onMouseout="bgcolor='#oldcolour'">Oink</td>

PS if yo want to make me an affiliate use this code

[url="http://mooses.34sp.com/link.php?link=2"][img]http://mooses.34sp.com/mooses.png[/img][/url]

 

[evilmonkeh]

they do take a few seconds to load

 

[[UKLans]Khan]

Good work m8, I like it. He's some of the stuff that you MAY want to look at (but it's fine as it is)

1. If I where you i'd remove the "webinventions.co.uk" image from the news post.

2. Use % widths instead on actual pixels, if you are worried about the resizing banner at the top, include a bit that can repeat and still look fine... if you get what I mean.

3. Last thing I can see is date format, how about sorting it so its like: 03 October 2003 so it's universal?

Hope this helps, otherwise great work.

Khan

 

[pcg79]

i love yer photo gallery :}

but change the rollover colour

 

[L_Plates]

Originally posted by [UKLans]Khan
Good work m8, I like it. He's some of the stuff that you MAY want to look at (but it's fine as it is)

1. If I where you i'd remove the "webinventions.co.uk" image from the news post.

2. Use % widths instead on actual pixels, if you are worried about the resizing banner at the top, include a bit that can repeat and still look fine... if you get what I mean.

3. Last thing I can see is date format, how about sorting it so its like: 03 October 2003 so it's universal?

Hope this helps, otherwise great work.

Khan

First off thanks.

1. I think i will remove the image from the post as it looks pap :/

2. I made the site to fit all screens width wise. I understand what you mean about a BG image so it looks continues. At the moment im happy with the width settings though.

3. I thought i had removed the date script !!! Were is it you see it ?

Thanks again.

 

[L_Plates]

Originally posted by pcg79
i love yer photo gallery :}

but change the rollover colour

What colour would you recommend i was thinking maybe yello or a light grey ?

 

[wyrd_fish]

just make it visible, but still blueish, or you vould just have it underlined, or nat, on hover...

PS the menu is still pics...