my new web page

Hi,
After much pi$$ing around on my part, my web page is up & running (many
thanks to Gordon H for his patience!!)

http://www.scubadive.me.uk/index.htm

It's a bit basic at the moment as it's only a frontpage '98 site at the
moment, still working on getting a decent program for compiling it properly.

Any feedback appreciated

Nige

Nige wrote:

> Hi,
> After much pi$$ing around on my part, my web page is up & running (many
> thanks to Gordon H for his patience!!)
>
> http://www.scubadive.me.uk/index.htm
>
> It's a bit basic at the moment as it's only a frontpage '98 site at the
> moment, still working on getting a decent program for compiling it
> properly.
>
> Any feedback appreciated
>

Haven't looked round the page much yet, but having a 760K image on your
front page is a HUGE no no. there are still people with dial up connections
and even those with broadband may well get bored with any wait and surf on
elsewhere! Not to mention that you will very quickly get to the bandwidth
limit on the account when everyone keeps downloading it.

If you feel the need to have that image, stick it in an editor and reduce
the resolution and colour depth to make it a sensible size!

I will let you know any more as and when I get a chance to look round it.

HTH

Danny

--
The box said windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux

Header is false, correct is Danny at danshome dot org

"Danny Burchett" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:bvocg5$ui02h$1@ID-188750.news.uni-berlin.de

>> >
> > Any feedback appreciated
> >
>
> Haven't looked round the page much yet, but having a 760K image on your
> front page is a HUGE no no. >
> Danny

Ditto to Danny's comments. Also noticed that like so many other people
you have decided to tell people that all content is copyrighted to you
etc etc. You don't need to do this as Copyright is automatic, in the UK
at least, and in any case your statement would not stop anyone who
wanted to rip you off anyway.

Steve




--
Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG

"Danny Burchett" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:bvocg5$ui02h$1@ID-188750.news.uni-berlin.de...
> >>
> Haven't looked round the page much yet, but having a 760K image on your
> front page is a HUGE no no. there are still people with dial up
connections
> and even those with broadband may well get bored with any wait and surf on
> elsewhere! Not to mention that you will very quickly get to the bandwidth
> limit on the account when everyone keeps downloading it.
>
> If you feel the need to have that image, stick it in an editor and reduce
>the resolution and colour depth to make it a sensible size!

Thanks Danny,

The home image has now bee considerably shrunk in size

Nige
>
> I will let you know any more as and when I get a chance to look round it.
>
> HTH
>
> Danny
>
> --
> The box said windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux
>
> Header is false, correct is Danny at danshome dot org

> Thanks Danny,
>
> The home image has now bee considerably shrunk in size

Can I make a techincal point? Apologies if I sound whingey.

I feel the need to ask why you want that as an image anyhow?

You're limiting your audience somewhat, people using text based browsers
will see, instead of your home image, "copy of barraedit.gif" (i know cos I
was using Links when i firsk clicked!). In addition, anyone with a visual
disibiilty, using a web reader will get, vocally "copy of baraedit.gif" read
out to them, if anything.

You'd be better setting real HTML text over the image as opposed to
embedding it into the image, or if you must do it this way, use an ALT tag
to get your text there for people "sans graphics".

Quickly clicking through, the rest of the site is dealt with OK in Links, so
would probably work out of in web readers too.

Regards,

Gavin.

> Also noticed that like so many other people
>you have decided to tell people that all content is copyrighted to you
>etc etc. You don't need to do this as Copyright is automatic, in the UK
>at least,

This isn't correct. Intellectual Copyright is primarily guided by
international standards that were agreed upon by a number of countries,
including Britain and the US at various conventions (I forget which, sorry).
Guidelines on intellectual copyright are best explained in the rules set down
in the US Code, as they are generally the same globally and are explained
succinctly. The US Code says that you must have a "prominent copyright
disclaimer" if you wish to assert intellectual copyright over written material,
which would include websites. An example of this being applied to the UK can
be found in the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act. Of course even when
you do assert copyright over a website, people can still use stuff from it
under the Fair Use Clause, but at least they are limited to what they use if
you do reserve your rights of copyright. Probably be told I'm totally wrong in
all this, but I got around Warner Bros lawyers so I'm pretty sure I'm on safe
ground

Rob F.

"Nige" <nigel@nospamhamlinawards.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bvobul$jer$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Hi,
> After much pi$$ing around on my part, my web page is up & running (many
> thanks to Gordon H for his patience!!)
>
> http://www.scubadive.me.uk/index.htm

Worked okay for me (Explorer 6 under Win XP Pro), looked nice, didn't do
anything unexpected.

I guess I ought to have the courage to put mine up for public scrutiny, with
the usual excuses about pressure of time and work, etc! Also on "Release
1.0", very much a work in progress with lots of spaces where I'll be adding
content "soon". I'm particularly keen to know whether any of the scripts
fall over, especially on non-Microsoft platforms...

R.

http://www.lacchin.co.uk/

"Rudy Lacchin" <rulaREMOVETHIS@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bvp25v$ugsll$1@ID-182063.news.uni-berlin.de

> I guess I ought to have the courage to put mine up for public scrutiny,

> http://www.lacchin.co.uk/

The tits were surprising, although not unwelcome...

The "Scuba Diving" page has the left-hand edge chopped off - the
floating menu covers some of the text and leftmost image

The "login" page sent me somewhere strange and unimplemented.

The floating menu doesn't float properly - the bottom bits are
frequently off-screen. The behaviour of this seems to vary with page
length...

Other than that, it seems to work

I'm using Mozilla 1.0.2.

HTH

Vic.



--
Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG

"Gavin Carey" <gicarey@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bvon5j$21g$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > Thanks Danny,
> >
> > The home image has now bee considerably shrunk in size
>
> Can I make a techincal point? Apologies if I sound whingey.
>
> I feel the need to ask why you want that as an image anyhow?
>
> You're limiting your audience somewhat, people using text based browsers
> will see, instead of your home image, "copy of barraedit.gif" (i know cos
I
> was using Links when i firsk clicked!). In addition, anyone with a visual
> disibiilty, using a web reader will get, vocally "copy of baraedit.gif"
read
> out to them, if anything.
>
> You'd be better setting real HTML text over the image as opposed to
> embedding it into the image, or if you must do it this way, use an ALT tag
> to get your text there for people "sans graphics".
>
> Quickly clicking through, the rest of the site is dealt with OK in Links,
so
> would probably work out of in web readers too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gavin.
>
>

and of course... the number of people browsing with text only are
significant and influential. As for the blind reading it....... well......
its a visual medium

In message <bvobul$jer$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>, Nige
<nigel@nospamhamlinawards.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>Hi,
>After much pi$$ing around on my part, my web page is up & running (many
>thanks to Gordon H for his patience!!)
>
>http://www.scubadive.me.uk/index.htm
>
>It's a bit basic at the moment as it's only a frontpage '98 site at the
>moment, still working on getting a decent program for compiling it properly.
>
>Any feedback appreciated
>
Apart from others' views, a couple of specific suggestions. First, in
several places you've used "blue underlined" (or indeed green
underlined) text as some form of subheading. Best not to. This is the
default "link" format - so people are accustomed (as I did) to
frantically try to click on it. In general, underlining on websites is
best avoided...

Second, I feel there's also some sort of logical confusion as to where
navigation lives. Sometimes it's across the top, sometimes up the side,
and sometimes it feels like the respective roles are different. Best
stick to one model - if that makes any sense (it's late...). A clear
"home page" link is also desirable.

Cheers!
--
David Pearson