The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #134965   Message #3075047
Posted By: Mr Red
15-Jan-11 - 07:53 AM
Thread Name: Tech: My New Website - Nigel Paterson
Subject: RE: Tech: My New Website - Nigel Paterson
Homepage is possibly a bit big. The instruction for moving to the next page is not visible straight away on this monitor. Try adding an alt (and title) in the href or img tag. eg

<A HREF="your homepage url" alt="Click here to visit" title="Click here to visit"><img etc etc

that will give a pop-up reminder (not a window). hover over this link cresby.com for an idea of how it works.

I would view on old browsers and try to get all relevant information on the first page visible in one hit. Old browsers/monitors will tell you how big to make it. And modern browsers/users with a load of icons/favourites/toolbars (- Google!) cut down the usable area. How you configure YOUR browser is not necessarily as bad as it gets, your audience won't blame themselves, regardless of the clutter they have.

If you are using Frontpage try help for "alt" properties. Or edit the HTML in notepad and look for IMG and HREF and see if you can slot the code in. Dreamweaver offers the alt property but maybe not title.

Otherwise the site has to represent you and it is clean and uncluttered.

The "Home.htm" page - beneath the fretboard images, the text obscures something (with block background?) and the text in a white box overflows the white box at the bottom. All of which could be seen by playing with several browsers and reducing the size of them to see how your pages react.

Best of luck. and try my page found here and give me feedback. There are 1600 lines of JavaScript and it may just misbehave if approached in a certain way. PM me or webmail me with comments.

TIA