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  • boydy
    Corporal

    • Mar 2008
    • 19

    At last my work is done

    It's taken some time as have never attempted before
    coments and pointers welcomed

    www.nicolemcaleer.com
  • PlayItByBeer
    Lieutenant Colonel

    • Mar 2007
    • 653

    #2
    Re: At last my work is done

    Hi Boydy,

    Welcome, and you're away from the starting blocks...
    A couple of comments:
    • Your header picture is 322kb and slows your page loading down. It's saved as a .png (I find if I save as .png it's usually quite a bit bigger than .jpg - so I only use it if I want to keep transparency) you can reduce the size with pixresizer
    • You need to add keyword rich page titles. SEO Basics
    • Use the same size text frame for your two news articles and align the 'read more' links to each other.
    • "During this time she was also took..." on home and about us pages.
    Enjoy,
    Andrew

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    • boydy
      Corporal

      • Mar 2008
      • 19

      #3
      Re: At last my work is done

      Thanks for the advice
      spelling change was an easy fix but am stumped by the header resize
      It took me hours to get the header sorted if I resize will it still fit in and will I have to do each page again
      Use the same size text frame for your two news articles and align the 'read more' links to each other.
      can you give me a bit more help here as am not to sure what to do here

      Many thanks
      boydy

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      • cathrn
        Second Lieutenant

        • May 2008
        • 107

        #4
        Re: At last my work is done

        Hello Nicole,
        Well, you are amazing. And your site is really well done. I'm new at this too and still working on mine, but seeing what other's have done is so helpful. I really like your banner. Did you use a photoshop filter on the photo? It's very effective.
        Sorry I can't comment on the techincal part, you are much further along than I am, but I like how the photos work. The only thing that looked a little busy to me are the underlines on the page links. Really well done, that's a lot of work!
        All the best
        Catherine
        www.catherinebuchanan.com

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        • boydy
          Corporal

          • Mar 2008
          • 19

          #5
          Re: At last my work is done

          Hi thanks for the positive response.
          It's taken me ages as it's all new to me so a real learning curve.
          thought I was done but still work to do.
          Feel it's really worth it as the young lady really deserves a good site aft the hard work on track

          Regards

          Boydy

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          • boydy
            Corporal

            • Mar 2008
            • 19

            #6
            Re: At last my work is done

            Hi Andrew,
            see what you mean by jpg it's alot smaller
            many thanks will change all now

            regards

            boydy

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            • PlayItByBeer
              Lieutenant Colonel

              • Mar 2007
              • 653

              #7
              Re: At last my work is done

              Originally posted by boydy View Post
              Hi Andrew,
              see what you mean by jpg it's alot smaller
              many thanks will change all now

              regards

              boydy
              Hi Boydy,
              I removed your text from the picture, as it would be better to add this outside of the picture (on top of picture) so that the SE's can read it. Here is example of your reduced picture (40kb)
              Attached Files
              Andrew

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              • PlayItByBeer
                Lieutenant Colonel

                • Mar 2007
                • 653

                #8
                Re: At last my work is done

                Originally posted by boydy View Post
                Thanks for the advice
                Use the same size text frame for your two news articles and align the 'read more' links to each other.
                can you give me a bit more help here as am not to sure what to do here

                Many thanks
                boydy
                Click on either of your text areas on your home page (story & news)>>shift>>click other text area>>now click 'make same width' icon (double sided arrow<->)>>to be safe click align left as well. Use the same method to align your 'read more' links.
                Cheers,
                Andrew

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                • boydy
                  Corporal

                  • Mar 2008
                  • 19

                  #9
                  Re: At last my work is done

                  thanks Andrew,
                  you've been a great help will have a play about later

                  regards

                  Boydy

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                  • Collectors-info
                    General

                    • Feb 2006
                    • 8703

                    #10
                    Re: At last my work is done

                    Hi, the sites coming on, couple of things that may be worth a look.
                    The http://www.nicolemcaleer.com/galstudio0308.html page needs the images reducing; you have over 2000kb of images. Would personally use a proper image gallery like jalbum or similar for any more than 1 or 2 images. (Only a personal view as the thumbnail quality & large kb’s is terrible with the light box).
                    This is the same with some of the other gallery pages.
                    The pages is not quite centered? But I noticed that the widest item on the page is 841px, yet the page width is set at 1043. I can only assume that you are building the site centered on your screen. No problem! But normally you would start building a page with BV from the far left of the screen with no spaces on the left side & then centered to the widest item on the page. IE: Your header image at 841px.
                    Good luck with the site just needs that special photo for the front page.
                    Regards Chris.

                    Collectables, Collecting, collectors-info.com

                    www.chrismorris.co.uk

                    House build project

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                    • leoscats
                      Staff Sergeant

                      • Apr 2008
                      • 42

                      #11
                      Re: At last my work is done

                      Nice site,
                      I have a soft spot for racing
                      A big thanks to the "old hands". Your inputs teach us newbies a lot

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                      • boydy
                        Corporal

                        • Mar 2008
                        • 19

                        #12
                        Re: At last my work is done

                        Thanks Chris,
                        took a look at Jalbum it's really cool but can't work out how to get it on my site as the instructions are clear as mud

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                        • Collectors-info
                          General

                          • Feb 2006
                          • 8703

                          #13
                          Re: At last my work is done

                          Hi, publishing to Jalbum can be done 2 ways.
                          1.create an account (Freebie) at the jalbum site & upload to there. OR!
                          2. When you are making your jalbum, you will see a publish button. Press this button.
                          You will now have another window pop up just like the publish popup in BV.
                          Press the add button & on the window that pops up tick the “Use an existing account on another server” radio button & bress ok.
                          Fill out the details the same as your BV publishing popup.
                          Server Name = IP Address
                          User Name = Same as your VH account
                          Password = Same as your VH account

                          All this only has to be done one time.

                          Now press connect & you should be into your server.
                          Look down the list for public_html & Click on it to highlight.
                          Now at the top of this area there is a gold folder with a yellow/red star (1st icon on left)
                          Click on this one time You will notice that it has created a folder to the same name as you called the album. You can now press Upload all & it will start to create the album on your server.
                          You should now be able to click on the link next to address label at the bottom of the screen for the url. (My one wont work) But don’t worry at worst the url will be http://yoursite.com/newalbumfolder/ You wont need any more as there is an index page in the folder that will be picked up on.
                          It looks a bit long winded, but the 1st time will take the longest. If you want to update an album, just add/delete the images & connect to the same folder in the server again & this time press Smart upload as this will only update what’s needed.

                          Good luck.
                          PS I forgot. Best way to get this into a BV page is pop an iframe on the page & use the album link as the opening iframe page.
                          Regards Chris.

                          Collectables, Collecting, collectors-info.com

                          www.chrismorris.co.uk

                          House build project

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                          • boydy
                            Corporal

                            • Mar 2008
                            • 19

                            #14
                            Re: At last my work is done

                            Thanks again Chris,
                            Explained brilliantly that even I can understand. Will have a play later as the server for my website appears to be down.

                            Thanks again

                            Boydy

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                            • Collectors-info
                              General

                              • Feb 2006
                              • 8703

                              #15
                              Re: At last my work is done

                              No problem. Good luck.
                              Regards Chris.

                              Collectables, Collecting, collectors-info.com

                              www.chrismorris.co.uk

                              House build project

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