Don't want to be too cheeky...

[geekgirl]

But, anyone with a bit of time on their hands please take a look at my site. I really hate it when it displays fine on my comp but not elswhere.
I have stripped it back but still not working right.

You should see a large pink heart (my partner thinks it looks like a bum, well, whatever) on a dark pink background.
5 names down left hand side, when you put your cursor over the names they should turn red, and at the same time the text at the bottom left hand side of the browser window should change into little comments for each button, (for no reason just for fun).
When each name is clicked a new window should open with the page that each family member has made. Phew!


I think I went wrong by turning away from hand coding when the thought of java looked far too difficult.

Like I said, only if you have a few mins spare as this is just a daft site, something that I like to update from time to time.

Thanks X.

[trishahardwick]

I don't think it's cheeky to ask advice. It's clear just from reading some of the Forum items that there are a lot of very clever people amongst the Statcounter users. I'm sure too that people with such enthusiasm fully understand the frustrations of those with less knowledge, and possibly some will be happy to assist if they can.
I'm no techie with websites - I built mine using Trellix (now Cutesitebuilder) I'd never even considered how to build a site but found that people were having difficulty locating me, and the website has solved the problem. It took eight days and 82 hours, but it was worth it.
This programme is wonderful for people like me with no knowledge or time to learn such a complex subject. It puts in all the code for you as you build the page with text, images, colours etc.
I did look at your site - the colours look perfectly OK to me, the text changes at the bottom with each mouse-over and the pages open, but I also saw an 'error on page' message on the bottom bar of the home page.
Sadly, I can't tell you what causes it, or how to resolve it, but I do hope someone has an answer for you.
Apart from that - I think your site looks fine - and I don't think the heart looks like a bottom - unless viewed from upside down of course! :lol:
best wishes - Trisha.

[trackerm]

Hi :)
I had a look at your site. I couldn’t get the button to change colour when passed over or clicked.

Your partner is a bit correct about the bottom heart looking like... well a bottom! But it’s fun and I got a giggle! :)

The information in the pages is great for a family site. You could consider telling people a bit more.. such as what country is your family? The UK presumably by the email addy. But it could be the USA, Australia, Canada etc. People love to know if you are close or a world away, and if your family is like ours. I got a laugh from “I haven’t seen my son since he got his drivers licence”. We are 10,000 kms apart, but my parents had the same problem!
Location is specifically important for Will’s page as its for his business. If I want to get him to do a job for me do I have to pay an air fare? Or is he just round the corner?

Statcounter gives good results on how people find your page.. a search sting for a business like Will’s would have a location city in it. So he would be missing possible business. (His products look great!)
I use Statcounter and its Keywords to make sure I have the correct text on my pages so the search engine strings will find me. Google doesn’t use Meta-tags, so for my page to be found by the search engines I must have Google-readable-text: Job, Bondi, Sydney, Australia. Then the search string can be “job” and either Bondi or Sydney or Australia.
Statcounters benefits will show us what we are doing right, not the things we have forgotten to consider.

Will’s site isn’t registered with Google at all. You can add the url at http://www.google.com/addurl.html

All the best.

Mark

[Vixen]

I like the background, however I am viewing on a TFT (they always seem to pick up more color than CRT, or is that just me?), anyhow some of the pink under the family member links is a different shade off.

My color picker says it's fusha Hex={FF,00,FF},
the "jayt.gif" for example appears to be two shades of the above.

Other than that, looks fab :)

[geekgirl]

Hi, Thanks for looking and comments. Yes the colour difference is when you save the gifs for web, you lose colours, I can fiddle with that.

Now I have had your feedback I can 'digitally doodle' further.

Thanks again for taking the time. :wink:

[Vixen]

I know what you mean, .gif's really give me problems.

I solved it by saving as .jpg, although even then, when I publish, sometimes the colors loose well, color. I wonder why that is. Sometimes like my white's and creams turn pinkish. Really odd.

:roll:

[liberator]

I just checked your site and your page contains the following line; (wrapped to help readability)

<script language="JavaScript1.2" src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Default/Application%20Data
/Adobe/Adobe%20GoLive/Settings/JScripts/GlobalScripts/CSScriptLib.js"></script>

Anyone viewing the site is unable to access the script because it will try to load it from their own hard disk. As a consequence, you will get javascript errors in IE or it will be ignored in Netscape. Not sure about other browsers.
I also see that later you set some parameters for the script, and they contain many *URL* entries. I think these should be the URL that you want to link to!

You should change the src path to the correct path on your web server (I assume that you copied the script to your web server?). If it is in the same folder as the html page, then just src="CSScriptLib.js" should do. You should also enter the relevant URL's in the parameters.

Have fun!

[Stormx]

Hey, i'm a new member here, Old time web designer.

The trick to make your website work correctly is to make sure all its syntax is correct and widely supported, for instance on WebTV supports the CONTROLS attribute for images.

A really good thing to do if you are going purely for HTML and not include pages, build your website in the CSE HTML Validator (www.htmlvalidator.com). IE Will sometimes display errors in the status bar, so check them. I am afraid I found errors on your page. At a glace, you have three main problems:

1.) In head, your META tag reads <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=isojayface.gif, and then just stops. Add "> on the end
2.) I don't know if you were trying to use XML, but <csscriptdict>, <csactiondict>and <csobj> don't exist
3.) <tr> doesn't have a height attribute.

Hope this helped!

[webmoriar]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

Does anyone know why this part is at the beginning of webpages? I can't figure out why it it there so I just got rid of it to speed loading time by about .01 secs or something :D

Everything worked on your site btw but the names changing red did not work. I am sorry but I don't know why.

[Qusa]

webmoriar

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
Does anyone know why this part is at the beginning of webpages?


Check out these links:

http://www.w3.org/2002/03/new-to-w3c
http://www.w3schools.com/w3c/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_reference.asp

hth

[webmoriar]

so is it basically to let search engines/browers/people know that your page is W3C compatible? Sorry I am asking what is probably a very stupid question.

[Sub Zero]

^ close but no cigar, basically did you or your html editor put that in there?

Anyway goto:
http://validator.w3.org/

and then type in your webpage and it checks your code to make sure its ok, you know there are rules to which code is written but sometimes some of the rules are forgotten about and this validator basically just reminds you

[webmoriar]

My HTML editor does that automatically when I make a new page so I guess I should put that back in. I will do the validate thing once I do that, thanks for the link.

Like the webpages. I will definitley be revisiting the Photoshop one as I just recently got it and learning more stuff will be cool.