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  • #1968
    Chris
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    Hey Ryan,

    I’ve switched to proper hosting etc. and have changed to a better website design. Would you mind taking a look at the code sometime when you’re free?

    [url:2ttwslvc]http://www.chrislaing.net[/url:2ttwslvc]

    P.S. I’m having serious issues implementing a lightbox-style photo gallery. There are two versions kicking around, the javascript version and the pure CSS/xhtml version. Both are kicking up a nasty stink (probably since I really don’t understand this CSS business yet).

    P.P.S. I just successfully installed SMF <img decoding=” title=”Smiley” />. Thanks for the tip!

    #1969

    Holy crap! You are a fast learner!

    Is that your own design, or did you pinch it from some where? It looks very professional, so kudos to you if it’s your own design. You should also change “Web site contents” to “Web site contents and design” so people know it’s your design and not just your content. You could just add a generic copyright tag like I’ve stuck in this site, but since it’s your own site you may as well take credit for it <img decoding=” title=”Smiley” />

    The lightbox method I was recommending last time was the Javascript one. I’ll post back another day with a quick explanation of how to get it to work. The CSS one is no good, you don’t want that at all as you (AFAIK) need to download all the images on loading the page, which takes forever. The Javascript one just nicely pops out a graceful looking pop over image – it still works without Javascript on but it opens the image as a link, rather than as a pop over.

    The colour changing buttons don’t seem to load the heading for some reason.

    You have an H1 and a bunch of H4s. The mega geeks tell me that you should really have a series of them, ie: if you have an H1 and an H3, then you need to have an H2 as well. There’s a bunch of reasons, most obvious is that logically if you have an H1 heading then you would naturally expect that an H2 would follow, then an H3 etc. There’s possibly also advantages with SEO (search engine optimisation) but I suspect it doesn’t make a lick of difference – but best be on the safe side none the less.

    Some mouseovers on those colour changing buttons would be nice.

    You’ve got the forum working <img decoding=” title=”Smiley” /> Now lets see you integrate it into your site, menu and all! Not an easy task I suspect. The DIHA forum was much easier as I could just chuck the forum inside the main content box of the website, but in your case that may look a little silly as your main content box is quite small. Messing round with forum themes is a bit nightmarish sometimes too, although SMF is supposedly not too bad – I haven’t tried it before though.

    [code:2zab3am2]<style>@import”style.css”;</style>
    <link>[/code:2zab3am2]

    Why not add the style.css file the same way as blue.css? @import is an old hack for really old browsers which you don’t need to worry about any more. There’s some info. about it here [url:2zab3am2]http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ImportHack[/url:2zab3am2].

    Other than that … nice code <img decoding=” title=”Smiley” /> Damn good work <img decoding=” title=”Smiley” />

    If you go check the code in many (most?) professionally designed sites and you’ll see that they’re considerably worse than your own.

    cheers,
    Ryan

    #1970
    Chris
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    Cheers Ryan,

    I’ve been looking at a few CSS tutorials and stuff, and I basically pinched the header images and stuff from an old html template and re-styled them using CSS. It looks the same as the budget template, but the code is much tidier (following that style/content separation principle you were talking about)

    A guy I emailed reccomended the @import hack, I didn’t really understand why, but he said that it wouldn’t make a difference for the new browsers anyway so I may as well include it.

    Hmm, the colour change buttons don’t load the heading? That piece is definitely borrowed, as I’m not much of a Javascript monkey, so I’ll do a bit more surfing.

    Yeah, not sure about the forum business yet, I only got it installed last night, so we’ll just have to see what I can cook up over the next few weeks <img decoding=” title=”Smiley” />

    As always, your input is appreciated <img decoding=” title=”Smiley” />

    #1971
    Janey
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    I have a computer too you know….and I can do cool designs…in paint

    #1972
    Chris
    Member

    You’re a regular codemonkey jane <img decoding=” title=”Wink” />

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