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Art degree show site crit
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| Hi all,
I was asked by my friends on my fine art degree to create a web site for
our degree show, I realise that what i've created is not the most cutting
edge or perfectly coded web site but i would truly appreciate some feed
back.
The gallery section contains Flash plugins to show the work, so be warned if
you hate flash, but i believe i made it quite subtle.
i'd just like to know that the site doesn't contain any glitches that stop
it working.
tia
http://www.jokielbenotmane.btintern...ke04/index.html
jonathan jokiel-benotmane
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| Karl Groves 2004-05-14, 12:14 am |
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"Jon" <skidj@softhome.net> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
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> I was asked by my friends on my fine art degree to create a web site
for
> our degree show<snip>
What is the accepted way to share a message across multiple newsgroups?
http://smjg.port5.com/faqs/usenet/xpost.html
-Karl
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"Karl Groves" <karl@NOSPAMkarlcore.com> wrote in message
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> What is the accepted way to share a message across multiple newsgroups?
> http://smjg.port5.com/faqs/usenet/xpost.html
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> -Karl
oops, sorry.. i have not really used usenet much before, i was looking
through the list of news groups for an apt place to post and just posted as
i came across them. but only to here and alt.www.webmaster.
my apologies
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| Edwin van der Vaart 2004-05-14, 12:14 am |
| Jon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was asked by my friends on my fine art degree to create a web site for
> our degree show, I realise that what i've created is not the most cutting
> edge or perfectly coded web site but i would truly appreciate some feed
> back.
>
> The gallery section contains Flash plugins to show the work, so be warned if
> you hate flash, but i believe i made it quite subtle.
>
> i'd just like to know that the site doesn't contain any glitches that stop
> it working.
>
> tia
>
> http://www.jokielbenotmane.btintern...ke04/index.html
With Galeon 1.3.8 (Mandrake 9.2 /Linux) and firefox 0.8. I got a
horizontal scrollbar with a window of 800x600.
At the welcome.html
Make more use of the style sheet and put it as an external file.
The content are difficult to read, especially when you have specified
the font-size as -1. So I would suggest to use "percentage" or "em" for
the font-size.
Nice counter. When I hit refresh of the browser, the counter increase
with 1. :-)
--
Edwin van der Vaart
http://www.semi-conductor.nl/ Links to Semiconductors sites
http://www.evandervaart.nl/ Under construction
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| johnSteve 2004-05-14, 12:14 am |
| On Sat, 8 May 2004 17:39:57 +0000 (UTC), "Jon" <skidj@softhome.net>
wrote:
>i'd just like to know that the site doesn't contain any glitches that stop
>it working.
>
>tia
>
>http://www.jokielbenotmane.btintern...ke04/index.html
One of the problems that can be encountered using Flash, is unable to
use the BACK button.
When I go from Home to Gallery1.html, I am unable to get BACK to home,
just keeps reloading the flash pug-in
PDF map nice touch, but took forever to download and print, on a fast
connection.
the takeo4 logo only thing on the page between home and shop is
useless, have to click again to get to shop.
order button did not work on Tom Johnson oranges,
temporarily unavailable.
Again no BACK button from this page, only a HOME,
fortunately Shop Home and not Home Home.
No way to back to the gallery site from your shop page
Give me back my browser buttons!!
How to Contact Us only gives a mail address to mail my check
What if I just want to complain?
)grin(
would have preferred table containing works for sale to be centered.
not often I see too much whitespace for me
Using IE6 and WIN 98
johnSteve
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| Hywel 2004-05-14, 12:14 am |
| In article <c7j61d$h65$1@sparta.btinternet.com>, Jon says...
> Hi all,
>
> I was asked by my friends on my fine art degree to create a web site for
> our degree show, I realise that what i've created is not the most cutting
> edge or perfectly coded web site but i would truly appreciate some feed
> back.
>
> The gallery section contains Flash plugins to show the work, so be warned if
> you hate flash, but i believe i made it quite subtle.
I suppose it doesn't get any more subtle than this:
http://usenet.kibo.org.uk/jon.jpg
--
Hywel I do not eat quiche
http://kibo.org.uk/
http://kibo.org.uk/mfaq.php
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| Jon wrote:
> Hi all,
> ........
> The gallery section contains Flash plugins to show the work, so be warned
> if you hate flash, but i believe i made it quite subtle.
> ......
> http://www.jokielbenotmane.btintern...ke04/index.html
What the plugin does here could easily be done with JavaScript and
an HTML form, and done to equally bad effect. An exhibition had
better be *extraordinary* if I'm going to slog through it one image
at a time. Your visitors need thumbnail previews to choose
which images they want to enlarge.
I'm not absolutely opposed to flash, but it works best for the rare
cases when animation is really needed, not for normal navigational
purposes. When used for navigation all it does is throw up
barriers, both to access and use. If you were doing artistic work
*with* flash, like that at simian.nu, it would be justified.
Presenting an exhibition *in* flash just gets in the way of the
visitor.
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HTH, m http://www.mbstevens.com/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "johnSteve" <stevo1@bresnan.net>
Newsgroups: alt.html.critique
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: Art degree show site crit
> One of the problems that can be encountered using Flash, is unable to
> use the BACK button.
> When I go from Home to Gallery1.html, I am unable to get BACK to home,
> just keeps reloading the flash pug-in
>
> PDF map nice touch, but took forever to download and print, on a fast
> connection.
>
> the takeo4 logo only thing on the page between home and shop is
> useless, have to click again to get to shop.
<snip>
should have made that a little more clear
the shop has been written by someone else
i simply wanted to know if there were any problems with the index, welcome
and gallery pages.
Is there any way of making the back button go back more than one page?
i'm guessing there isn't otherwise that would be a perfect way of getting
hits
i just didn't want to test for the flash plug-in everytime some one opened
clicked on a name.
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"m" <NOXwebmasterx@xmbstevensx.com> wrote in message
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> Jon wrote:
>
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>
> What the plugin does here could easily be done with JavaScript and
> an HTML form, and done to equally bad effect. An exhibition had
> better be *extraordinary* if I'm going to slog through it one image
> at a time. Your visitors need thumbnail previews to choose
> which images they want to enlarge.
>
> I'm not absolutely opposed to flash, but it works best for the rare
> cases when animation is really needed, not for normal navigational
> purposes. When used for navigation all it does is throw up
> barriers, both to access and use. If you were doing artistic work
> *with* flash, like that at simian.nu, it would be justified.
> Presenting an exhibition *in* flash just gets in the way of the
> visitor.
> --
> HTH, m http://www.mbstevens.com/
i agree with what you say, i use Flash mainly to create generative
animations, i find it a lot easier to interact with images and text using
Flash than any other programs i've had a chance to use. I've used it to make
college pieces, but i don't know javaScript well enough to create what i
have. In all honesty i think only our friends and relatives will be looking
at the site and people we direct to it, so a name will be enough to go by. I
just wanted to make something simple without having to write 3-5 pages of
html for all 61 people on my course. the Flash program basiclly reads a txt
file that contains all the variables shown on the page, and i only had to
write it once.
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"Edwin van der Vaart" <picayunish2000@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> With Galeon 1.3.8 (Mandrake 9.2 /Linux) and firefox 0.8. I got a
> horizontal scrollbar with a window of 800x600.
> At the welcome.html
i think i've solved this, had the width set to 700 for some reason.
> Make more use of the style sheet and put it as an external file.
being a bit of a newbie, i'm not sure how this should be linked too. I'm
looking around faqs for an answer, it's probably the simplest thing to do,
which makes it hard to find...
> The content are difficult to read, especially when you have specified
> the font-size as -1. So I would suggest to use "percentage" or "em" for
> the font-size.
as above, i didn't know you could specify a percentage, that is quite cool,
i will look for way of doing that. i thought the text was okay to read but
thanks
> Nice counter. When I hit refresh of the browser, the counter increase
> with 1. :-)
if you're talking about the counter in the shop, that's not my doing, the
shop was created by someone else, i think it could be done better but thats
a different kettle.
thanks for time and comments
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| Hywel 2004-05-14, 12:14 am |
| In article <c7ln11$l9s$2@hercules.btinternet.com>, Jon says...
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> "Hywel" <hyweljenkins@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1b07821414bc27499896cb@news.individual.net...
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> is that what happens? if you have no plug-in it should send you to
After 10 seconds it did, but all that told me was to download the plug-
in. I can't, because:
I'm behind a corporate firewall and I'm not permitted to install it
according to the company's IT usage policy.
I don't want it.
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> www.jokielbenotmane.btinternet/take04/need_f.html
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> strange.
Not really, considering the URL you've given here isn't correct.
--
Hywel I do not eat quiche
http://kibo.org.uk/
http://kibo.org.uk/mfaq.php
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| Edwin van der Vaart 2004-05-14, 12:15 am |
| Jon wrote:
> Edwin van der Vaart wrote in message:
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> i think i've solved this, had the width set to 700 for some reason.
That looks better.
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> being a bit of a newbie, i'm not sure how this should be linked too. I'm
> looking around faqs for an answer, it's probably the simplest thing to do,
> which makes it hard to find...
Sorry, I said it wrong.
There is already an external style sheet linked in the html pages
(between the <head> )
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
However in the style sheet is only the hover effect specified, you can
specify also the background, width of the tables, font families, font
sizes, font colors, etc.
For a good start to learn css.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
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> as above, i didn't know you could specify a percentage, that is quite cool,
> i will look for way of doing that. i thought the text was okay to read but
> thanks
For a normal font size is 100%. This is the same font size what you have
specified in the browser. Font size of 100% is the same as a font size
of 1em. That way the visitor can resize the font, especially in Internet
Explorer.
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> if you're talking about the counter in the shop.
That's the one.
> That's not my doing, the shop was created by someone else, i think it
> could be done better but thats a different kettle.
There are a lot of counters and statistics.
The best way is to google for it.
> thanks for time and comments
You're welcome.
Oh, when you're ready try to validate the html pages and the style sheet.
HTML
http://validator.w3.org/
CSS
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
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Edwin van der Vaart
http://www.semi-conductor.nl/ Links to Semiconductors sites
http://www.evandervaart.nl/ Under construction
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