Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

2006-10-27 Thread Peter MacGregor
Nice clean easy to navigate site. I'd move About us up to position two on the menu list - it's the first thing people might want to know having found the site! I personally always put contact us last - on the grounds that the rest of the options should answer questions and only if that is

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

2006-10-27 Thread PBC Web Design
At 11:21 PM 10/26/2006, you wrote: Hi all, I would appreciate it if someone could look over my new site and give me feedback? The url is http://www.1stchoicept.us. Hi Riva, I'm not seeing any text on the home page. Looks different in IE than it does in Firefox. The bottom blue is moved

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

2006-10-27 Thread Portman
Hi Deb, There is no text as of yet on the home page. I am still waiting for them to send me something. I don't know what to do about the bottom blue in IE. When you scroll down and up again it changes. Any ideas? Thanks for looking, Riva PBC Web Design wrote: Hi Riva, I'm not seeing any

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

2006-10-27 Thread Portman
Hi Peter, Thanks. I will follow your suggestions. It does bring up an interesting point - do I edit the text the client sends me? On the one hand, I want the site to be a good reflection of me (and my work) but on the other hand, when I made edits and sent it back to them, they made more

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

2006-10-27 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Riva In regards to body text I regularly have the same problems and I explain to the client that my job isn't just to make the site look pretty, it's to make the entire user experience a good one, which includes quality-checking the text content too. My compromise with them is that I fix

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

2006-10-27 Thread Drew Trusz
On 10/27/06, Portman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I would appreciate it if someone could look over my new site and give me feedback? The url is http://www.1stchoicept.us. TIA, Riva Not good in IE6. The background of the nav list jumps all over the place. This probably has to do with the

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

2006-10-27 Thread Portman
Thanks for the reply Ross. I did ask them if they wanted me to edit it and they said yes. Probably what happened, now that I think about it, was that they made changes to what they had on their computer and just sent it to me without updating their copy (of the text) on their computer. I do

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

2006-10-27 Thread Portman
Thanks Drew. I will look into that. Riva Drew Trusz wrote: Not good in IE6. The background of the nav list jumps all over the place. This probably has to do with the layout you are using (see below). First you need a complete doctype to get IE out of quirks mode. You might be having a

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

2006-10-27 Thread Joseph Harris
From: Portman snip I do find, in general, that a lot of people today have no idea about good spelling and good grammar, but maybe that's just me. :-) Riva No, Riva, it is not just you!!! Both drops in education standards and freedom for more people to have their words seen has increased

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

2006-10-27 Thread Portman
I remember seeing a sign for a garage sale that said GARAGE SELL. A pet peeve of mine is your and you're. P.S. My father always told me never to use a preposition to end a sentence with! ;-) Riva Joseph Harris wrote: No, Riva, it is not just you!!! Both drops in education standards and

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

2006-10-27 Thread Portman
Thank you all for the feedback. It seems as though I fixed the IE6 bug. Just working on the grammar and spelling now. Riva • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

2006-10-27 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
your and you're there, their and they're lose and loose and my personal favourite: incorrect apostrophe's just like that, especially when referring to plurals of acronyms. LDMs, PS2s, PCs not LDM's PS2's and PC's - where is the ownership in that??? So add me to the cynical club lol. My

[wdvltalk] Hijacked forms

2006-10-27 Thread Todd Richards
Happy Friday everyone! Some of my sites lately have been experiencing a case of spammers hijacking my forms to send ads and other crap. Yesterday we started getting the same thing at work here from our recruiting website. The forms are mainly for more information fill out the form below so we

Re: [wdvltalk] Hijacked forms

2006-10-27 Thread r937
Obviously my bosses aren't too happy that they have to put up with the crap why are bosses opening mail from the web site? it should go through an administrative assistant, who will purge the crap manually purge in this case means moving the offending mail to a special archive folder, where

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

2006-10-27 Thread Peter MacGregor
Ross you left out one of my favourites (sob) You, Ewe and Yew!! (Now all three of them can get back to work!) I assume Ross, you have read that great little book by Lynne Truss entitled Eats Shoots and Leaves? Covers punctuation and grammar in depth but is easily read and very amusing.

RE: [wdvltalk] Hijacked forms

2006-10-27 Thread Todd Richards
Small office = checks and balances. The boss also does recruiting, so for now he has to also check the messages. Yeah, different story for a different day. Is this just something that everyone is putting up with, and only now we are seeing it? (the spamming, not having your boss check the web

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

2006-10-27 Thread Portman
My boss did a blog post on how people don't read what they write sometimes: * Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and famous: www.whorepresents.com http://www.whorepresents.com * Experts Exchange, a knowledge base for programmers: www.expertsexchange.com

RE: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

2006-10-27 Thread Conyers, Dwayne
Joseph Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wroted: From: Portman snip I do find, in general, that a lot of people today have no idea about good spelling and good grammar, but maybe that's just me. :-) Riva No, Riva, it is not just you!!! Both drops in education standards

RE: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

2006-10-27 Thread Conyers, Dwayne
Also Spracht Portman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and famous: www.whorepresents.com * Experts Exchange, a knowledge base for programmers: www.expertsexchange.com * Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island:

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

2006-10-27 Thread Portman
LOL. Or psycho therapist? Riva Conyers, Dwayne wrote: Reminds me of the old Benny Hill gag where he painted a sign on a sliding door for Therapist. When he opened the sliding door, it said, The rapist. • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To:

RE: [wdvltalk] Hijacked forms

2006-10-27 Thread Conyers, Dwayne
Todd Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ink wired: Some of my sites lately have been experiencing a case of spammers hijacking my forms to send ads and other crap. Yesterday we started getting the same thing at work here from our recruiting website. The forms are mainly for more

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

2006-10-27 Thread Portman
grin Riva Conyers, Dwayne wrote: I cringed when I saw bare e-mails on the page. That may get these poor guys inundated with spam from bots. Otherwise, the pages came up quickly. I wonder if Jessica can help me with the little stiffness in my back. :-) • The WDVL Discussion List

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

2006-10-27 Thread Drew Trusz
On 10/27/06, Portman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all for the feedback. It seems as though I fixed the IE6 bug. Just working on the grammar and spelling now. Riva Oh, come on Riva, after all of that you aren't going to tell us what you did? drew • The WDVL Discussion List from

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

2006-10-27 Thread Portman
Oh. Didn't think of that. Well, I removed the position:relative; and changed the doc type. I had to reposition a few items, but it worked beautifully. Um . . can't think of what else I did. (Just got back from getting my car looked at -again. They replaced the fuel pump a week or two ago and

RE: [wdvltalk] Hijacked forms

2006-10-27 Thread Todd Richards
Thanks Dwayne. I agree - it annoys me to no end that there are people who's sole purpose in life is to destruct and destroy. This morning I had to patch our mail server because a little known exploit was being used to fire off DoS attacks. I spend most of my day trying to combat spam on our

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

2006-10-27 Thread Drew Trusz
On 10/27/06, Portman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh. Didn't think of that. Well, I removed the position:relative; and changed the doc type. I had to reposition a few items, but it worked beautifully. Um . . can't think of what else I did. (Just got back from getting my car looked at -again. They