Small Problem with my website

[funkyphantom]

Hi guys, Im a total newb when it comes to websites, but thought id jump in at the deep end and create a new website for my place of work. I know its far from perfect, but im proud of it, and have put a lot of time and effort into it. Ive obviously used a template to create my first page, and then progressed from there. One thing that is bugging me, and im sure its an easy problem for experts such as yourselves to sort out. Is that the navigation 'pointer' always stays on 'home' How would i go about making it move to the page that is being viewed?
I would also appreciate if someone could possibly give me a bit of C+C and point out any glaringly obvious mistakes. Please go gentle though http://www.trenthamparkgolfclub.com/new/index.html

Regards

 

[funkyphantom]

omg, what a dumbass i am!!
lol OP edited

 

[funkyphantom]

ya, that happened when i put google maps on to it. Couldnt figure a way to sort it out.

 

[funkyphantom]

In the HTML for the navigation bar, the class 'active' is used to show that little dot.

 class="active"

e.g.

<a class="active" href="index.html">Home</a>

On different pages, the 'class="active"' code needs to be moved to the correct link.

 

[funkyphantom]

Wow, im glad I finally plucked up the courage to show my website. Thank you guys! If there's anyhing else obviously wrong could you let me know? As I'm thinking of 'going live' tomorrow. I've checked checked and triple checked, but alays nice to have another opinion.
Thanks

 

[funkyphantom]

Just a general point - but I presume there are a fair few old members of the golf club. I'm talking over 40s here. They'll be more likely to have rubbish eyesight - so might appreciate a larger font.

never thought of that mate. Is it usual practice to change size of fonts on websites for the 'older generation' ? I thought they would change the resolution of their monitor?

 

[funkyphantom]

3 things I've noticed, 1. on the course page you don't have the grey edging, 2. on the contacts page it's smaller at the bottom and 3. at the bottom of the members page there's more white space (although seems to be just Chrome). Other than that you've done quite a good job

MW

lol, I never noticed the 'grey edging' on the Course page. Thanks for pointing that out. Think I'll leave the chrome problem as i have no idea how to fix that, and as billysielu says all i need is a paragraph of text to fill the Contacts page out. Other than that, and the navigation pointer problem I think its all hunkey dorey. Thanks for your help guys. Much appreciated.

 

[funkyphantom]

RoyMi6 thanks for all your advice. Going to your comment about the background conflict, do you mean remove the css file SpryImageSlideShow.css? If you do, wont that have an effect on the slideshow thats showing?
Thanks

 

[funkyphantom]

Right, Navigation problem is sorted. Apart from the troublesome course.html page. Can someone point me in the right direction as to why that isnt working?
Thanks

 

[funkyphantom]

course page appears correct to me using firefox 4 beta, but without the background edges around!

Thanks for replying. Does the navigation arrow work for you then? (on course.html)

 

[funkyphantom]

Roy, your not paronising me at all mate. Like I said in my OP im a newb to this, and learning as I go.
Im using a free trial of Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. It seems the Spry Image Slide Show which I enter as a 'widget' is Borking the .CSS Of that particular page. I guess Ill have to live with it for now, until I understand whats happening.
Thanks

 

[funkyphantom]

Yep, course.html seems to be a pain in tha ass. For some reason the arrow isn't showing, even though I've added the class "active" tag to the HTML. It's all to do with the spry slideshow I have on there, but althogh Roy has very kindly tried to explain why, it's all gone straight over my head! Lol
I'll sort out the text problem soon.
Thanks

 

[funkyphantom]

I'd offer to change the css mate - but I'm a great believer in letting you find out and correct the error yourself so you learn about the problem and not just get it fixed by someone else...

See how you get on, if still stuck I'll have a looksy, ok?

As another quick point...I personally think it would look a bit better with some sort of button/background on the links area...

tbh mate, thats why i havent asked for any help just yet Its been a long journey, about 6 weeks now off and on, and im not about to give up just yet.

Could you explain what you mean about the button/background on the links area? Im not with you.

 

[funkyphantom]

Just noticed the footer is borked in links.html too, using safari. Geeeez no wonder web developers earn so much money. Im glad im a greenkeeper

 

[funkyphantom]

Also noted you have a shop section. Any plans in the future to put your products online? If so drop me an email and i can help you out

there are some great open source systems out at the moment

Might be interested in that actually mate. Do you ,mean like ecommerce?

 

[funkyphantom]

That'd be nice to look into to be honest mate. Most golf clubs have a 'certain style' of website. Something like that might separate us from the crowed. Where do WE start?

 

[funkyphantom]

instead of the links to pages just being floating green text, giving them a background so they look more like a button to press...was just a thought which you can ignore as much as you like...

Ahh i'm with ya mate, Ill look into that, thanks.

 

[funkyphantom]

Drop me an email (in my trust) when your ready and i will send some links of some good free open source e commerce sites.

Done buddy

 

[funkyphantom]

No probs, jUst send the links when you can, and I'll tryto make sense of them.
Thanks again

 

[funkyphantom]

excellent, thanks mate.