Header Required!

[wonder_lander]

Anyone fancy having a go at doing me a new header for my website? www.the-pier.co.uk

The current header is too tall so I want to reduce it and will remove the buttons also.

Ideally a picture of piers or piers or at least something seaside would be best!

 

[wonder_lander]

ANyone fancy this challenge? No worries if not.

 

[wonder_lander]

Cheers, I acutually like the look of the image you've done there!

I just think there is too much dead space before you get to the content hence I thought that a reduced header image and something more relevant to the site content would help. The current one was just a standard theme for wordpress.

I do want to drop all the buttons but am sure how best to provide a naviation solution.

Once complete there will be at least 55 pier pages, plus I would guess another 15 of various nature such as the train times one, webcam one etc.

 

[wonder_lander]

You see that's all voodoo to me what you've just said!

Ideally I don't want a mass of pages, slick navigation is where it's at! I need the user to be easily able to identify how they can navigate to where they want to be without wading through a huge list of links.

I also need to kill the search element off for now as it isn't working!

Never done any html or css so any help is much appreciated!

I have no idea what that big copy and past was supposed to show. In Firefox I got a few colour gradients on the left hand side, in IE7 I get nothing!

 

[wonder_lander]

Should you really be concerned with IE5 support? They [IE5 users] are something like <1% of the worlds users.

From my stats I get:

Internet Explorer 7.0 31%
Internet Explorer 6.0 21%
Googlebot 2.1 8%
Crawler/Search Engine Unknown 7%
Yahoo! Slurp Unknown 7%
Mediapartners-Google Unknown 4%
Firefox 3.0.1 3%
msnbot 1.1 2%
Firefox 2.0.0.16 2%
AOL 9.0 1%
Ask Jeeves/Teoma Unknown 1%
Firefox 3.0.5 1%
Firefox 3.0.3 1%
Firefox 2.0.0.14 1%
Firefox 3.0 1%
Firefox 3.0.4 1%
msnbot Unknown 1%
Internet Explorer 5.0 1%
Googlebot Unknown 1%
Mozilla Unknown 1%
Safari 525.20.1 1%
Netscape 4.0 1%

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[wonder_lander]

Yup, 1% is kinda negligable!

 

[wonder_lander]

Sounds like a cool solution, looking forward to see what you can put together....many thanks

 

[wonder_lander]

Liking the look of those menus guys

 

[wonder_lander]

Just need some feedback from you and i'll provide code....

It's your site, tell me what you like or don't like.... have you read my comments regarding the menu?

IE6 won't support the hover effects on the list elements, but will work with the menu as is (i think)..... however i think i can add a small script i have to make it show the menus onclick instead which should also remove the disappearing issue if the menu is pushed down (which looks nicer).....

Or i could just totally remove the drop down and create a hide/show div element using javascript...

Or we can drop all that, and you could choose any menu freely available from the web and i'll re-write the links in the menu for you.....

Is the menu important, if so what should it look like... ideally... and how should it function?

Appreciate all that you've done here, will take a look around the web later and see what I like if that's ok?

 

[wonder_lander]

sure......

Will do my best to accomodate, if we keep it simple...

Looking at some on http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/

Will let you know what I think might integrate well!

Much appreciate the time and effort!

 

[wonder_lander]

Blimey, lots more buttons since I last had a look, I so could have centred them.

Definitely time for a better approach tho.

CHeers mate, appreciate the fixes you gave me before but sounds like some future planning is now needed!

 

[wonder_lander]

LIke the look of this one, what's everyone elses opinion? http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/pro_drop6.html

Other thoughts are to go vertical: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/slide_fly.html
This would replace the recent posts section which could be swapped to the other side.

Also what about this menu: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/drop_lists.html
Especially the idea where they have "UK Counties" to show all the piers either grouped by county or just east coast, west coast, south coast etc.

 

[wonder_lander]

Yeah I think you are right there.

I would drop the pages from the right and side and place the menu in the header.

Would the menu be dynamic or would I need to add each new page I create into the menu strucutre manually? For me the first one I listed looks the best solution.

I would like headings for:

Home | Piers | About | Contact Us | Links | RSS

Home - Should redirect back to www.the-pier.co.uk
Piers - Should then have a menu of - Pier Articles | Weather Information | Travel Information | Currency Convertor | The Pier - Homewares
About - Link to the About Page
Contact Us - To the Contact page
RSS - To the RSS Feed page

Does that sound complicated?

 

[wonder_lander]

I also have a test site if you want to play?

 

[wonder_lander]

Sent you a message to your trust email address, thanks for the help

 

[wonder_lander]

This one please! http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/pro_drop6.html

 

[wonder_lander]

Uploaded here http://www.mission74.com/the-pier/wp-content/themes/seagull/menu/

 

[wonder_lander]

Looking good that. Shouldn't be too much hassle to do that link thing.

I noticed on the drop down the highlight doesn't run the width of the menu.

Also how easy will it be to change the menu header colour and the menu drop down colours?

 

[wonder_lander]

Yeah if you can do the piers one with England, Scotland and Wales that would be great!

 

[wonder_lander]

Looking good chap, thanks ever so much!