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allllec

allllec

allllec

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Firstly, i don't design or develop websites, this was just something i did for fun - I'm not all that good at it so bear with me.

a few things i need help with..

firstly - just out of curiosity is everything nice and quick to load? despite being on my home connection i hope it will be since its all CSS and AJAX enabled.

secondly - those of you who are on big resolutions could you let me know how it scales? I'm stuck at a meaningless 1024*768 so i cant really test it, screenshots would be nice

and then besides that just general thoughts, ideas etc .. and the site..

http://allllec.co.uk/



its just a bit of fun, it serves no real purpose. also as i said this isn't "my thing" so excuse the fact that I'm not very good at it all

ta

alec


*edit*

also, for those of you not running Vista or Office 2k7 it will probably appear to be Times new roman font or something similar, its meant to be calibiri. at some point ill find something more universal that suites it and change it. but for now I'm off to watch TV!
 
Nice start.

Seem's to scale ok for me.



Not really much I can say apart from the typography looks good, you have a text menu which is good.

Try to put your menu in an unordered list (<ul> tag) as that is more appropriate.

Looking at your code - i don't know whats going on there - but that's probably the ajax.

Try to split your styling into an external css file - its better.
 
Conrad11 said:
Nice start.

Seem's to scale ok for me.


Not really much I can say apart from the typography looks good, you have a text menu which is good.

Try to put your menu in an unordered list (<ul> tag) as that is more appropriate.

Looking at your code - i don't know whats going on there - but that's probably the ajax.

Try to split your styling into an external css file - its better.
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thanks, will definitely look into what you've mentioned. Yeah the source makes no sense outside of visual web developer lol. and the css was just be being lazy lol :o well definitely move it over into my style sheet at some point..

just realised theres naff all on tv so i might do that now actualy :p
 
unknowndomain said:
Nice, bit plain but fair enough, however one thought on usability is that there is no way to bookmark or link to the specific page, perhaps you can generate a query string for people you know...

http://youdomain.com/site.htm?page=somethinghere
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In this particular case Im not gonna worry.. but that does raise a very good point, will look up how to do that for future refrence.

Fixed the CSS, all moved over into central Stylesheet.

thanks so far people :)


*edit*

im off to bed now infact. nn people - keep the suggestions rolling for the morning :)
 
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God that menu bar really does get stretched away.. need to fix that. cheers bud thats perfect.

also need to sort out a font =/ i was really ignorant and didnt consider the fact that most people for the time being wont have calibri lol

cheerssss

alec
 
Yeah its best to have alternatives in the CSS file, atleast 2 that suit the website well and the best thing is not to use a font that some people won't have.
I had that font but not on mac or my windows install anymore!
 
Updated the font and sorta cleaned up a little.

Only thing is im using absolute positions with percentages so the site scales, the only thing is obviously this causes the site to become deformed when it gets too big.

is there any way to make it so it scales to the size of the window to an extent. but at say over a certain amount it just "locks" ?
 
im gonna take a stab in the dark and say max-height is probably also valid css? thanks bud i shall work out the figures and apply those to my DIV's now :)

ta

alec
 
How could i apply those settings to my whole page..

is there a CSS eliment that just is like the whole page?

i tryied making a div tag around my whole site and css'ing it with those options but it didnt work :(
 
for the whole page you would want to use body, *, html which applies it to everything.

Basically you want the big box to stretch out until a certain width?
Does a div not around that work then, are you correctly using CSS?

I dont intend to be condescending here, just checking!
 
Hell be condescending you clearly know more than me! as i said im not familiar with all of this stuff tbqh! lol *edit* that sounded rude, didnt mean to! lol

In answer to your first question, pretty much but.

i have 3 layers/divs

the nav bar
the main content area
the footer area


i tried wrapping <div id="lala"> </div> around the whole site then in the css doing a

#lala
{
max- etcetc
}

but that had no affects :confussed:

so i stuck those "max-.." things in the body part of my css. no affect?


im just double checking everything now but i dont *think* im doing anything wrong :(

cheers for ya help bud

ta

alec
 
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Im viewing it in firefox and its not working, either firefox problem as well or im doing something else wrong :(

any other way to achieve what i want ?
 
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