Thoughts Please ?

[Conkers]

I've done the following site in photoshop & imageready.... It's not complete and there are errors.. ie not all links work yet and there's a weird mouseover on the atrtractions page !


test site


It's also temporarily on a shite host that's filled it with banner & pop-up ads that will go away when I pay for some decent hosting.

I'm just after feedback on the overall look & feel of the site.. as well as some way of dynamically resizing the thing depending on peoples screen resoloution... I'm stumped with this ! :nowords:

Thanks

[wizer]

and the site is.....?

[Conkers]

and the site is.....?

duh !

test site

[WTD]

Very nice mate, you've done a good job.

Get a decent host and a domain name and you'll be all set.

Nice and clean, easy navigation and good information.

Only slight gripe is I find the rollover text colour isn't very easy to read, ubt not a major problem

[wizer]

it really is quite nice m8. Good Feel, plain... very smart.... gis a discount

[wizer]

one thing i would say tho is to move away from using purely images for the entire site. What happens if you need to make changes to the text? you have to recreate the image. What happens if the text changes 10/12 times a year? not very flexible

[Conkers]

one thing i would say tho is to move away from using purely images for the entire site.

Thanks for the positive comments lads !

The thing is if I don't use images it messes up the table spacing..... It's a right bitch to allign as it dumps weird 'spacer.gif' images all over the place.

[WTD]

This would be a good oppotunity to learn html them mate!

Using <div> tags you will be able to lay that out perfectly without the need for tables or images for text

[Conkers]

Using <div> tags you will be able to lay that out perfectly without the need for tables or images for text

Any sources of example M8 ????

[WTD]

These will prove invaluable mate

http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

[Conkers]

These will prove invaluable mate

http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

Thanks a lot M8 !

You've given me good food for thought... I'm going to give it a go !

[Conkers]

Well I've taken the plunge and totally recoded it by hand !
It looks cleaner and loads faster as a result. WTD thanks for the pointers.

I've got a domain http://www.our-florida-villa.co.uk

I'm having problems though on the availability page... I've had to use an ugly iframe tag to include a pge that's generated to show a calendar... is there any way I can just show the calendar part of this page ?

[andythetwig]

in php it goes like this:

<?php include "calendar.html" ?>

you'll have to rename availability.htm to .php to get the server to parse (read) through the html and do the replace as it spits it out...

provided your host has php installed, you might have to use asp or jsp.

[andythetwig]

although, I can't see any neat way of inserting the data without getting global to allow you to query their database... I would just link to their page to be honest!

[wizer]

looks good pingo, what did you use to code your html? or did you right it from scratch?

[WTD]

Great work mate

Do a google for server side includes or use the code andy posted to include your calender

[Conkers]

looks good pingo, what did you use to code your html? or did you right it from scratch?

I wrote it from scratch using Dreamweaver MX..... Still got a few errors (30 !!) on the W3C validator but I'm working on them.

From you're previous reply M8... I'd love to give discounts.. but the place ain't mine ! Wish it was though it looks nice.

Thanks for the comments & Help Lads !

[WTD]

A really easy one to fix mate is to only use lowercase for tags and atributes e.g. IMG to img

That will get rid of a lot of validation probs