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Family Website - Please Critique - www.themainelife.com

Quinnstr

2004-05-14, 5:34 pm

I tried to make every page enjoyable for our friends and family to
view. Every page can be printed with one click (I hope). I tried to
make every page viewable without scrolling. With keeping photo
integrity I reduced every picture as much as I could for fast loading
(same with video). The website isn't complete (directory page) but, I
hope to better myself and the site with comments from this post. I
used on html to build this site because this way I like to know
excatly what I am doing. I sometimes get lost in Java but, I make due
as you would see. I hope this site is simple enough for others to
copy (code) and use for there own. It's all about sharing. Hope you
enjoy it. This is my first post.

The Quinn Family website = www.themainelife.com
Thanks
Doug

Gnarlodious

2004-05-14, 5:34 pm

Entity Quinnstr spoke thus:

> www.themainelife.com
Yuk, copy and paste.
You should say: http://www.themainelife.com/
so it's clickable.
Looks good to me! Nice site. Those dead links should be commented out, this
is so tacky:
file://localhost/C:/WINDOWS/Desktop/THE%20QUINNS%20FAMILY%20WEBSITE/Front%20
Page%20Quinn%20Family%20Web%20Site.html

Comment them out like this:



And what do you mean by Vancouver, I thought you were in Maine?

-- Gnarlie
http://www.Gnarlodious.com/Cogent/Cogent.html

Weyoun the Dancing Borg

2004-05-14, 10:29 pm

Quinnstr wrote:

> I tried to make every page enjoyable for our friends and family to
> view. Every page can be printed with one click (I hope). I tried to
> make every page viewable without scrolling. With keeping photo
> integrity I reduced every picture as much as I could for fast loading
> (same with video). The website isn't complete (directory page) but, I
> hope to better myself and the site with comments from this post. I
> used on html to build this site because this way I like to know
> excatly what I am doing. I sometimes get lost in Java but, I make due
> as you would see. I hope this site is simple enough for others to
> copy (code) and use for there own. It's all about sharing. Hope you
> enjoy it. This is my first post.
>
> The Quinn Family website = www.themainelife.com
> Thanks
> Doug

ok loaded the first page.

what's the flag for? I'd remove it.

ok loaded the "enter" page. Why not make image on the front page link to
that person's page?

What's with the "strike through"? It makes text hard to read. If the
pages aren't there, either link to "comingsoon.html" or don';t make them
hyperlinks to begin with.

Other than that it seems ok to me.

Weyoun the Dancing Borg

2004-05-14, 10:29 pm

Weyoun the Dancing Borg wrote:

> Quinnstr wrote:

> ok loaded the first page.
>
> what's the flag for? I'd remove it.
>
>
> ok loaded the "enter" page. Why not make image on the front page link to
> that person's page?
>
> What's with the "strike through"? It makes text hard to read. If the
> pages aren't there, either link to "comingsoon.html" or don';t make them
> hyperlinks to begin with.
>
> Other than that it seems ok to me.

also, the "dead" links point to:

file:///C:/WINDOWS/Desktop/THE%20QUINNS%20FAMILY%20WEBSITE/dougie%20pics.html

well I dont have a file called
C:/WINDOWS/Desktop/THE%20QUINNS%20FAMILY%20WEBSITE/dougie%20pics.html

just remove the links entirely.

Weyoun the Dancing Borg

2004-05-14, 10:29 pm

> well I dont have a file called
> C:/WINDOWS/Desktop/THE%20QUINNS%20FAMILY%20WEBSITE/dougie%20pics.html
>
> just remove the links entirely.

also the home videos... they are in WMV format. I know this page is for
family and friends and they will most likely be using Windows with
Windows Media player, but for those of us who do not have access to WMV
file palying programs, have you considered offering it in a format such
as AVI or MPEG?

For AVI files I suggest the DivX or XVID codec. However since it's a
"friends and family" website, it's probably not needed.

Weyoun the Dancing Borg

2004-05-14, 10:29 pm

Weyoun the Dancing Borg wrote:

>
>
>
>
> also the home videos... they are in WMV format. I know this page is for
> family and friends and they will most likely be using Windows with
> Windows Media player, but for those of us who do not have access to WMV
> file palying programs, have you considered offering it in a format such
> as AVI or MPEG?
>
> For AVI files I suggest the DivX or XVID codec. However since it's a
> "friends and family" website, it's probably not needed.

and to answer your question, yes you *can* copyright the movies, but no
the music sound tracks :)