Thanks a whole lot for all the advice about my new handyman website.
I received a great deal of very good advice from this group and I have a better site as a result. Many thanks to everyone who contributed.
The (almost) finally revised site
Also many thanks to my talented friend Phill Smiff for the logo design.
Onwards & upwards!
Dave
Very nice, but do you know that that Jpeg is 3418K and 1560x748 pixels large. Do you need help reducing its size, its not nice via a dial-up.
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Heh! I make it 291px,146px = 522.06 kB size however I'm on 2Mb BB and it does scroll down? to reveal it rather than instantly appear
-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite
The actual image is 1560 x 748, but displayed as 291x146 this a) makes it slow, b) makes it look jaggy far better to scale it down "properly" ...
In news:tnUCf.4069$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe7-win.ntli.net, Mark scribed:
Mark is right, Dave. Your original image size is huge, and you are requiring everyone's browser to adjust the size 'on the fly' as well as download all those extra pixels to start with, only to be discarded upon arrival! Suggest you create a web version of the original at the output size (i.e.291 x 146 pixels), and then it will download much more quickly without any visble loss of quality.
Here is one I made earlier!
Nigel
Yes sloppiness with a K on a newgroup leads to a hanging. How about 534594bytes
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Welcome to the Medway Handyman web site!
We are here to help with all those little jobs that need to be done ...... and some of the bigger ones too!
The Medway Handyman is a family run business with over 30 years experience with all sorts of building maintenance & repair. We work for both domestic and commercial customers in and around the Medway Towns: Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Rainham , Maidstone & surrounding areas.
Let us help with Carpentry, Plumbing, Electrics, Security, Flat Pack Assembly, Painting, Garden Services and General House Repairs.
We have all kinds of specialised tools and the experience to enable us to do the job in the minimum amount of time.
We are reliable, honest, polite, friendly and we even tidy up before we leave!
Not only are we able to cope with small jobs - we can do them for less than the cost of several specialist tradesman - we can cope with larger jobs as well.
Our charges are very reasonable with no hidden extras. Click on the 'Our Charges' page to find out, or any of the other pages See what we can do for you.
It could do with some (not much) centralisation and some (again not much) justification.
The words sprawl a little on a 21" monitor. Have you tried the site yet on a variety of monitors? And browsers -without your owner's cookies? In my opinion the lines need to be not much longer that this one: We are reliable, honest, polite, friendly and we even tidy up before we leave! ... to keep the viewer's focus sharp.
And you might use a small smile here: *** before we leave! :~)
Something personal (a baby in the family might help there. Especially if plastered in chocolate or ice-cream. Or is that over egging it?)
It wants to be a small thumb-nail and might even be a link to some family pics and work you have done.
Or perhaps not. As the case may be.
(Not that it looks like a good example of evilocean, by any means.)
But it wants a smilie of some sort.
In news: snipped-for-privacy@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, Weatherlawyer scribed:
You're drunk (and foolish). ;-)
N.
nrh wrote
You beat me to it - I thought at long last I could make a contribution; I didn't notice the half meg (I'm on BB now), but it woould take ages on dialup.
Was I David I'd just borrow your file!
mike
david lang wrote
Good luck - thank you for switching off the music.
If you ever get any associates in Esswx, please post
In news:Xns975A756D86BE4mikeringbtinternetco@130.133.1.4, mike scribed:
lol Sorry. Ain't life a bitch sometimes. ;-)
Maybe, but something tells me he's gawn orff....
Nigel
Trouble is I have 4meg Boradband so everything loads in seconds on my PC.
Thanks again!
I was wondering if there was a site on the web that would allow me to view site through the eyes of different browsers, monitors & connection speeds?
Just put a couple of lines somewhere on the home page asking people to email you if they have any problems browsing the site for the nature of the problem in as much detail and what browser ect. Make a seperate email for this.
-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite
Just make sure you copy that image to your own site, David (and perhaps acknowledge Nigel's help). You don't want your page to look like (just scroll down a bit:-)
Douglas de Lacey
david lang wrote in
In news:_k2Df.11229$ snipped-for-privacy@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk, david lang scribed:
YW! I seems we are both on the same type of connection with the same ISP then. Snap! ;-) I guess as an amateur website designer myself, I tend to look for these sorts of things.
Best Nigel
In news:drir0r$sib$ snipped-for-privacy@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk, Douglas de Lacey scribed:
I have deleted it from my server now, so if he hasn't, then ther will be a rather obvious blank space on his index page! ;-)
(and perhaps
8<Good heavens no. Don't want me cluttering it all up, now do we?!! lol N.
In news:00UCf.11076$ snipped-for-privacy@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk, david lang scribed:
8<Quick question, Dave. Who is hosting your website?
Nigel
There was once though I cant find the link in my bookmarks anymore.
Try installing Opera browser this has features to test display under various conditions and the display can be set to show window size etc.
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