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Subject: Click here
From: Kara
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 04:25 PM

hi have not been at the mudcats for weeks as i have been giving myself a head ache getting an website together well I thought I'd let you have a look at it

the photo's of the Joseph schnider Set are fab, even if I say so myself.

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Kara
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 04:27 PM

well I am not sure what happened there but if you click on the bit that says the photo's of the Joseph Shnider set are fab, even if I say so myself, you go flying off to the site. Well what do you think???

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Ed Pellow
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 04:29 PM

Kara,

Please stop doing this

Ed

Subject: RE: Click here
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 04:31 PM

As visitor 28, I like what you're doing there.......Did you notice on the Schnider page that you spelled it once as "Schnider" and once as "SchINder?"

Spaw

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Kara
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 04:37 PM

Well no one is perfect and the Schnider Set have never had their name spelt right or even the same twice. and Ed what do you want me stop doing.

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Mbo
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 05:13 PM

Yer no so bad lookin' yerself, Kara!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Jeri
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 05:26 PM

Kara, you might want to think about lower resolution images - I never did get the entire page loaded. So who designed the erotic Celtic knot thingie?

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 05:33 PM

A background like that, I'm not surprised you have a headache... You may want to dim the colours of the background knot (neat knot though!) so that the text shows up better...

I had the same problem on my page for a while until I found a more subdued background....

Just a suggestion...

{~`

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 06:05 PM

Kara, the content seems OK but I couldn't get into the Electrozen page.

I think that you do need to review you choice of colours on the main page as I found it very difficult to read. Also, the main page and the Joseph Schnieder set took pages to download, perhaps as mentioned above, you could use lower resolution images.

I hope I don't sound too miserble but things like text that is hard to read and slow downloads will put visitors of going to your site and people like me are quite likely to leave without even bothering to struggle to read text or wait ages for a page to complete its download.

Jon

Subject: RE: Click here
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 Jun 00 - 06:12 PM

Kara, you should create small versions of the images instead of using a big image which you resize using width and height.
Even for these small versions one has to download the big image which takes quite some time (and for most people money as online time costs).
And the background really makes it hard to read the text. Same goes for green letters on black background - use different colors or at the very least bold letters.
MudGuard

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 01:39 AM

Good luck with your music Kara. I still want to know why Ed's shorts are in a not. Did I miss something?

Rick

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 01:56 AM

Well, I went there, and got a very quick lime green page, which had black print, and was not too difficult to read, and then before I could read it, was transferred to a white page with blue knots and small pictures. I clicked on each of the pictures, and got a "could not be displayed" for all three. When I did the "back" thing, I was sent back to the white page, and then back to the Mudcat, not the green page........however, at Midnite, Mountain Daylight Time, USA, it was not slow at all.

Subject: RE: Click here
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 04:10 AM

Sorcha,
the green page is the same as the one with the celtic knots.
It has a body with a background color of 00ff80 which is a slightly bluish green. It also has a background image defined (the white background with the celtic knots). The browser sees the green background command first, so it makes the green background. Then it takes some time till the background image is loaded, and as soon as it is loaded it replaces the green background.
When you go back to that page, the background image is in your browser's cache and thus will be displayed immediately. So on your way back you won't see the "green" page.
MudGuard

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Kara
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 04:54 AM

Thank you for all the hints and tips. I designed the celtic note myself . I did if for our wedding invitations but thought it would be a shame to leave it at that. I will try and reduce the size of images Thank you Kara

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Banjer
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 05:58 AM

Since I am currently toying with a web page myself it was good experience to see this one. I t is abit hard to read and slow to load. I'm sure you will overcome these things and I will attempt to avoid them in mine. I had been having problems with picture size and appreciate the suggestion made to create a smaller, low res image. Ah, the wonders of modern technology!!!!

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Ed Pellow
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 11:31 AM

Kara,

Sorry for my earlier post - a case of having too many windows open, and posting to the wrong one. Apologies

Ed

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 12:02 PM

There's an excellent "rant" on web design and accessiblility Dick Gaughan's Page

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Ed Pellow
Date: 11 Jun 00 - 02:01 PM

Jeri,

Thanks for the Gaughan link - I agree with everything he says, and I'll print a copy for one of my employers when we meet on Tuesday to discuss my designing their site.

Thanks again

Ed

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Kara
Date: 12 Jun 00 - 04:49 PM

Ed can you put us on some links so we can have a look at some of the sites you have designed??

Subject: RE: Click here
From: Homeless
Date: 12 Jun 00 - 05:18 PM

Kara - I can't get to the Eletrozen page either - reason being that in the link you put "electrozen.htm" instead of "electrozen.html".

If you'd like, I can subdue the colors on your picture and e-mail it back to you. PM me if you're interested.