Website help PLEASE

Banish · 17 Nov 2009 at 19:26

this is driving me nuts , why does the page title eg index.html always end up on the end of the web address ? thought you could have it just the www part showing not the rest ???

this is it, just basic but does the job
thanks brian
http://www.fionanaish.co.uk/index.html

Mattus · 17 Nov 2009 at 19:57

You can. http://www.fionanaish.co.uk goes to the same place. You're only ending up at index.html because that's where the 'Home' link points to. You just need to change the link.

Banish · 17 Nov 2009 at 20:06

ok but it does it with the other pages and they all cant be ie the home link ???

Mattus · 17 Nov 2009 at 20:10

Ah - I see. Pretty much every website will do that - it's the only way to distinguish between one page and another. If you really wanted to get rid of the filenames, you could do it by loading the site within a frameset with only one frame showing. It's not really necessary, though - not to mention that it's bad style and stops people from linking easily to a particular page.

Banish · 17 Nov 2009 at 21:14

thanks for the reply, I will just leave it then

Draeger · 17 Nov 2009 at 22:16

Just a "heads up" m8, you may have noticed this already but "Contact" in the Nav bar jumps up a bit upon clicking and going to the "Testimonials" and the "Links" pages.

Pho · 17 Nov 2009 at 22:39

You should really use a contact form instead of a mailto link. Not everyone uses desktop email.

Banish · 18 Nov 2009 at 00:52

dont know how to do a contact form LOL

very true I shall sort the email bit out

Draeger

dont know why it does that ?

suarve · 18 Nov 2009 at 09:42

Just link to your domain name E.g. href="http://www.domain.com" - linking directly to index.html will force the browser to display that page. Purely a personal thing, but you could make the urls look a bit neater by making folders E.g. create a folder called 'testimonials' and place your index file there. Then you can link to http://www.fionanaish.co.uk/testimonials
Just a couple of things I noticed straiught away (sorry):

- For the abobe acrobat reader icon either crop away the white space or save it as a transparent gif, to avoid getting the white edges
- At the bottom of the right hand column, your more link still goes to freewebsitetemplates.com

Pho · 18 Nov 2009 at 11:23

Banish said:
dont know how to do a contact form LOL

very true I shall sort the email bit out

dont know why it does that ?

I get annoyed everytime I click one by mistake because outlook loads up, which is slow

.

You could always cheat and use something like this for now:
http://www.phpform.org/

Or manually (the better way of course):
http://tutorialblog.org/how-to-create-your-own-ajax-contact-form/

Draeger · 18 Nov 2009 at 11:29

Banish said:
dont know how to do a contact form LOL

very true I shall sort the email bit out

dont know why it does that ?

Not sure why it "jumps" those few pixels up either, would need to take a look at your code.

As far as a contact form goes, here's one that is really easy to set up and use :-

http://formtoemail.com/

Just follow the instructions it provides and you should have a contact form up and running in no time. I used this contact form on my fathers website which coincidentally is also a driving school website

:-

http://www.firstdriving.co.uk/

suarve · 18 Nov 2009 at 19:54

Draeger said:
I used this contact form on my fathers website which coincidentally is also a driving school website :-

http://www.firstdriving.co.uk/

shameless

Banish · 18 Nov 2009 at 21:16

thank you fellas