the column has been changed - more comments please.Originally Posted by Mary Young
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Thread: New design - your opinion please
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15-05-2006, 10:02 PM #11Neil
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16-05-2006, 9:33 AM #12Mary YoungGuest
Great! Links all visible. Now another teenzy niggle (well, you did ask )
Why the horizontal line after each link? Perhaps remove that, and the Links could be closer together?
Must say I admire you. I haven't yet got my head round frames and/or fly-out menus, drop-down menus or drop-down boxes.
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16-05-2006, 7:20 PM #13Originally Posted by Mary Young
I have veiwed this on 3 different PC's and can only see the hyperlink blue line?
I must say that I have used a table with the borders turned off. Could it be this that your veiwer is picking up?
I will have a look at trying to do it without the table, I can not remember why I used a table in the first place.
Now for the technical stuff, the old site is written using FrontPage and the new one with it drop down menus was done using AceHTML 6 Pro (a free software but unlike FrontPage you have to know a bit about HTML before attemptting to use it). For all the codes from drop down menus, mouse disabled etc I use, https://www.dynamicdrive.com/
Cheers
NeilNeil
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17-05-2006, 6:31 AM #14
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Hi Neil
Have viewed your Page. Well done
What I would do is dress it up a bit by adding a background (some color) also shorten the heading to
Genealogy & Local History
Clay Cross, near Chesterfiled
County of Derbyshire
Also make the headings of the categories like ' History Pages ' ~ ' Photos & Maps ' ~ ' Trade Directories ' etc etc stand out a bit or make the text bold and slightly larger.
Just my idea
Cheers
Bill
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17-05-2006, 10:42 AM #15Mary YoungGuestOriginally Posted by Neil Wilson
Thanks for the pointer to https://www.dynamicdrive.com/ that looks really useful. I'm trying to be less reliant on FP, but moving to CSS is a steep learning curve.
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17-05-2006, 11:15 AM #16MythologyGuest
"Must have been a glitch in my Firefox yesterday."
If so, then my Firefox is telepathic and decided to follow the example of yours.
Whatever, they've gone now, and although I'm no lover of frames, largely because too many people use them just to be clever when there is absolutely no need for them (I hate sites full of "clever" bits just for the sake of it), in this case, like the Abney Park site, the use of frames does not seem at all unreasonable to me.
Now that it's been revised so that, even at 800x600, I can *see* the links in the left hand frame, I prefer the old site.
The only thing I would say is that there are three links all saying "Photographs", which could lead to confusion. I appreciate that you want to keep the wording short here, but even (1), (2) and (3) would help.
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17-05-2006, 6:31 PM #17Originally Posted by Mary Young
The lines disappeared because I removed the table
Yes CSS is steep and one day I will understand what all these codes do...Neil
www.claycross.org.uk
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17-05-2006, 6:33 PM #18Originally Posted by Mythology
Cheers for this, I have described the pages differently on the new (not favoured) version, so I will change the titles to relate to the contents.
Thanks
NeilNeil
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17-05-2006, 6:40 PM #19Originally Posted by Rove
Regarding colour, different people have commented on this all ready. I did have some with a blue background, although initially I thought it looked right, I have over time remove it has I grew tired of seeing it.
Noted about the heading, will look at it later.
Title, it is long for a simple reason, not many people have heard of Clay Cross, so I adP>Clay Cross, near Chesterfiled
County of Derbyshire
Also make the headings of the categories like ' History Pages ' ~ ' Photos & Maps ' ~ ' Trade Directories ' etc etc stand out a bit or make the text bold and slightly larger.
Just my idea
Cheers
Bill[/QUOTE]Hi Bill
Regarding colour, different people have commented on this all ready. I did have some with a blue background, although initially I thought it looked right, I have over time remove it has I grew tired of seeing it.
Noted about the heading, will look at it later.
Title, it is long for a simple reason, not many people have heard of Clay Cross, so I added the other bit, I suppose this could come in the introduction paragraph.
thank
NeilNeil
www.claycross.org.uk
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18-05-2006, 8:30 PM #20
Hello all
I have made the changes to both sites which have been suggested.
Although I have enjoyed this exercise, I think I will stick with the old design unless there is a increase of support for the new one.
Cheers
NeilNeil
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