Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:42:01AM -0500, Nick Wright wrote: I designed for 1280 pix wide. I have a screen with considerably more horizontal pixels than that, but I don't maximize my browser window. This is partly because I have a lot of things going on, but also because unadorned paragraphs of

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-23 Thread Brian Walters
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:55 -0500, Nick Wright nickwright1...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, the blue link color has been changed. Seems a little easier on the eyes to me, what do you all think? Yes, looks better. And I also like the fact that you've changed the Fine Art page to have two images, each

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-23 Thread Nick Wright
As to the images on the fine art page. I use a program called Shutterbug to build my website. It's an excellent program and I really enjoy how it works ... mostly. It does have quite a number of quirks though. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Wed,

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-23 Thread Mark Roberts
Also, I'm surprised about the 1280 thing. I've been watching my stats since I put up the blog and it seems to me that the great majority of folks visiting my site were set at 1280. This may well be because those viewing at lower resolution don't come back. The way to look at it is: How many

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread Feroze
Clean layout...but the link colour on the text dosn't show out that well on the grey and what default width did you design for, mines set on 1024x786 and I have to scroll left to right to view the menu Feroze Nick Wright wrote: http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ Thanks in advance! --

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread Nick Wright
I designed for 1280 pix wide. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Feroze angel...@telkomsa.net wrote: Clean layout...but the link colour on the text dosn't show out that well on the grey and what default width did you design for, mines set on 1024x786 and I have to scroll left to right to view

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread Bruce Walker
Nick Wright wrote: http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ Thanks in advance! Nice, clean. I'd say it's a good fit for your style; it represents you well. I like the way the gallery looks and works. This could be simply an observation or could be a complaint: this is a click and try site.

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread Brian Walters
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:30 -0500, Nick Wright nickwright1...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ Thanks in advance! -- ~Nick David Wright http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ It's a nice, clean design and the menu navigation is intuitive. The only hitch I found was the

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread Brian Walters
Oh, and one more suggestion. Let Mark Roberts know about the site so that he can add it to his PDML Members' Web Sites Page: http://www.robertstech.com/pdml.htm Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread Cotty
On 22/4/09, Nick Wright, discombobulated, unleashed: I designed for 1280 pix wide. Interesting. I used to set my pages at 800 wide (to accommodate people on older monitors) but have since widened out to 1000 pixels. I figure anything that makes it easier on the viewer means more likely to

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread Mark Roberts
Nick Wright wrote: http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ Thanks in advance! Nice, clean design. Few nits. I'd redesign to make the page width at least partially fluid or, failing that, fit a 1024-pixel screen (still the recommended optimum design width). And move the navigation menu to the left

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread Mark Roberts
Cotty wrote: On 22/4/09, Nick Wright, discombobulated, unleashed: I designed for 1280 pix wide. Interesting. I used to set my pages at 800 wide (to accommodate people on older monitors) but have since widened out to 1000 pixels. I figure anything that makes it easier on the viewer means more

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread frank theriault
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Nick Wright nickwright1...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ Thanks in advance! -- ~Nick David Wright http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ Works for me! Well done. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson --

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread David J Brooks
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Mark Roberts msrobert...@ysu.edu wrote: (ending with / instead of ). Fix that and it looks like your code will validate completely. . Overall, I'd be thrilled if my students came up with anything as good! I'd be thrilled if I knew what that meant.:-) Dave --

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread Adam Maas
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Mark Roberts msrobert...@ysu.edu wrote: Cotty wrote: On 22/4/09, Nick Wright, discombobulated, unleashed: I designed for 1280 pix wide. Interesting. I used to set my pages at 800 wide (to accommodate people on older monitors) but have since widened out to

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
As others have said, a fine, clean design. However: even assuming that your design was for 1280 pixels wide, placing the only controls on the main page all the way to the right of that format is problematic ... many will get to the page, not see the controls, find nothing responsive to the

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread Nick Wright
Okay, the blue link color has been changed. Seems a little easier on the eyes to me, what do you all think? Also, I'm surprised about the 1280 thing. I've been watching my stats since I put up the blog and it seems to me that the great majority of folks visiting my site were set at 1280. Thanks

Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-22 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Nick Wright Subject: Re: OT: New web site, give me your thoughts Okay, the blue link color has been changed. Seems a little easier on the eyes to me, what do you all think? Also, I'm surprised about the 1280 thing. I've been watching my stats since I put

OT: New web site, give me your thoughts

2009-04-21 Thread Nick Wright
http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ Thanks in advance! -- ~Nick David Wright http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.