Web site test

[colsoop]

If you kind peeps could take a look at a website i put together to check it for errors.HERE

It is based on an open source template modified to meet my needs, just something clean and simple.

If you find any errors could you let me know what browser you are using and what the problem is.

 

thanks

 

colin

[Class One]

Seems to be working okay for me Col. Good luck with your venture.

[MARTIN R]

Worked fine for me mate, looks good to. Discounts for site beater testers then:whistle:

[S7EVE]

Not bad col! Im impressed and wish you all the best!

 

Are you able to take moulds from plastic bits? I got me a new APEXi and it would be cool to have this pipe and a few other placky pipes bling'ed up.

[Bill Prawn]

Hi Col,

 

Sent you a PM, but it looks good.

 

[Ian R]

Looks great

[SUPRALOOPY]

[colsoop]

Cheers for the comments and corrections guys, i just need to find a decent domain host rather than using my free ntl webspace.

[Pixelfill]

Only one suggestion here from me:

 

The gallery will load a lot quicker, and consume less bandwidth if you make the thumbnails smaller, i.e. a separate image resized to 100x100 pixels, rather than the actual image scaled in HTML. when you start paying for bandwidth this will make a huge difference I think. The only downsides of this approach are that you'll use more web server space (only a very small percentage) and the actual images will not pop up as quickly when you click the thumbnail, but it will make your site more 56K friendly.

 

The same would apply to your "my car" link. The thumbnails are large images resized in HTML, this is why it takes a while to load. in this case you don't need the larger images as you haven't provided a click me facility to gain access to the larger images. (although people - like I did - can still access them by "right click - save" ing the picture).

 

 

All in all though looks very clean, simple (not a criticism - I like this), and well done, no dead links either.

 

good luck

 

Mike

[Pixelfill]

One other thing you might like to change:

 

in order to identify which emails you are getting from your website you might want to do something like mailto:joe bloggs

 

That way each email will be identifiable in your inbox, which will help SPAM filtering, or Outlook rules.

 

This is a good page showing what you can do with mailto:

 

Mike

[Burna]

Looks very good Col. I'm still trying to resist the bling, but I grow weaker by the day:drown:

[Mike]

Yep, looks good... and everything Pixalfill said (especially about the thumbnails)...

 

good luck mate

[SupraHuman]

Nice one m8.

I bought the polished throttle body and intake manifold from colsoop and the work he's done on it is flawless.Looks superb.

Cheers

[terribleturner]

Working well and looking good

[colsoop]

Only one suggestion here from me:

 

The gallery will load a lot quicker, and consume less bandwidth if you make the thumbnails smaller, i.e. a separate image resized to 100x100 pixels, rather than the actual image scaled in HTML. when you start paying for bandwidth this will make a huge difference I think. The only downsides of this approach are that you'll use more web server space (only a very small percentage) and the actual images will not pop up as quickly when you click the thumbnail, but it will make your site more 56K friendly.

 

The same would apply to your "my car" link. The thumbnails are large images resized in HTML, this is why it takes a while to load. in this case you don't need the larger images as you haven't provided a click me facility to gain access to the larger images. (although people - like I did - can still access them by "right click - save" ing the picture).

 

 

All in all though looks very clean, simple (not a criticism - I like this), and well done, no dead links either.

 

good luck

 

Mike

This is all useful stuff, i will try out some of those mail to commands cheers for the link.

I don't know much about design, so all the help is good, thats why i used an open source template to learn more about the code and how it was put together.

I think i see what you mean, for the non gallery images, resize to the size i want to display then save the images at said size and add those in to the template rather than resizing within dreamweaver?

For the thumbnail images in the gallery, i used the following code

 

image1.jpg><a></p><p> </p><p> should i change it to <a href=image1.jpg(the src is the smaller 100x100 pixel picture ?)

 

Would that be better?

 

thanks for all the help !

[Shovels]

 

image1.jpg><a></p><p> </p><p> should i change it to <a href=image1.jpg(the src is the smaller 100x100 pixel picture ?)

 

Would that be better?

 

thanks for all the help !

You should technically use the first one - specifying the image width and height and point it to the 100x100 thumbnail. You might want to also consider adding alt tags on the images.

 

Personally I would also modify the site navigation so that you have a consistent list - removing the link of the page you are currently on serves no real advantage, but makes the navigation jump around causing confusion.

 

One final thing would be to get the photo's in focus (I know it's difficult) but this will make the items more attractive to the website viewer - Photographing shiny objects is difficult, but if you have it on a plain background it will make the item stand out more. (obviously this isn't possible on parts attached to the vehicle).