I recently decided to up-grade my computer skills and enrolled in a 8 week web-building course. The course covered building your site from code, only using a simple code writing software. I wanted to learn the basics instead of relying on software designed for building web sites. It was challenging, but I managed to make it through with a passing grade (the only test I've had in the last 30 yrs. was a blood test). I didn't take the course to become a web designer, but to be able to build my own site and understand how it works (if I pick up some work, that will be a bonus) If you get a chance, check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks
[ January 07, 2012, 03:10 PM: Message edited by: Rick Janzen ]
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Rick ... ya done good!
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
Good start, Rick especially if it's all hand-coded!
I'd like to see a few paragraphs in that homepage text I think, and justify the text rather than having it centred and ragged at both edges.
Posted by Rick Janzen (Member # 7227) on :
Thanks for the input and positive comments. I'm still tinkering with the site to try and make it a little more interesting and also visually appealing. So much to learn, so little time. I find it very interesting to write the code and see how it displays it the different browsers.
Posted by Tom Rose (Member # 606) on :
Hi Rick,
I liked your site, great work on the site and the gallery!
I especially liked the Studebaker Lark billboard, as I owned a Lark of that year and color, but a hardtop not a convertible.
Years back I made a site to sell some of my drag racing art. I wrote it in code, and it really was a chore!
My current site www.seemysignwork.com I wrote om my Mac using built in software, and it was super easy.
Good work Rick...
Posted by Diane Malesky (Member # 687) on :
Nice! I took an 8 week HTML class a few years ago. Was interesting. Amazing how far technology has come in just 20 yrs. I think our first computer and software was around $4-5000. How crazy is that?
I still...have to change my top bar design on mine. Been procrastinating Fantastically on this. Set goal. Must be done by Spring this year or I better just give up. Not conveying a good image. Geesh! LOL!!
Nice Work!
Posted by Teddy Carlsen (Member # 13012) on :
Looks great, very well done, congrats on finishing the course.
As Ian wrote, try splitting the text up in smaller parts useing p tag, best practice is using between 80-85 characters per line, and 5-6 lines per paragraph. The font used for the small text are a no go, small serif fonts are to hard to read online.
Some other tips:
In you're gallery there are divs with the same id name, change them to class instead. You can check for errors using web page(should be used on every subpage).
Add an meta title for the index page, and unique titles for the subpages.
Try looking in to setting up the page with an external css, it's much easier to manage, and try out some of the new css3 styling options.
Teddy
Posted by Rick Janzen (Member # 7227) on :
Thanks again to everyone, your tips and suggestions are greatly appreciated. I'm in the process of re-working the Home and Product pages, and hopefully will have them finished over the next couple of days. Teddy, what's the name of the photo gallery you're using on your site?
Posted by Teddy Carlsen (Member # 13012) on :
My site are set up using joomla CMS. But my plan is to redo it in html5 and css3, and make it responsive, so it will adjust to the device it viewed on, when I get the time.
If want the popup images you have to look in to some javascript.
you could use this: web page But try googling javascript gallery.
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