My New Website (yep another one)

06/11/2006 05:53:03 PM · #26

Originally posted by UNCLEBRO:

I just had a quick look, and I think it looks really good, especially as you did it yourself.
I've been trying to do my own for years now and its crap!!!
Anyway, my suggestion would be to drop the ".jpg" endings in the nudity gallery.
A small thing, but I se you've done it with the other galleries and personally I think it looks more professional without them.
Also in the infrared gallery, all the picture are titled "dsc0178.jpg" or whatever.
I know it's hard to think of titles for photos, but if they were just plain numbered like 178, 179 etc etc, then it would also look more professional.
Petty of me maybe, but you asked for it :-)

Hey Steven...nothing is too petty. I did actually have the jpeg's off them all but I reloaded the nudity gallery yesterday and forgot to do that. So will get that done today I hope. As for the other ideas...I like it....I will get that done today as well. Thankyou so much.

I will state that every idea that has been mentioned will be getting done. I wouldn't ask for suggestions if I wasn't going to listen...so keep them coming.

Some things will take a little longer to fix as I have no instruction booklet and am figuring it out myself. So please bear with me.

06/13/2006 06:38:45 AM · #27

Okay I have just spent the last two days fixing everything that people suggested....as per the list below.

(Suggested by MK) - Change the white background. DONE - but I think I prefer the white.
(Suggested by MK) -Alter the font size. DONE
(Suggested by MK) - Change the Guestbook Colour to match the site. NOT DONE- Still trying to work it out. I think that info is hiding in the custom.css file....if anyone can advise then please do so.
(Suggested by Jhonan) - Change the I's and Us to either throughout the site. DONE
(Suggested by Jhonan) - Change the under construction message. DONE
(Suggested by Jhonan) - Correct the header on the Guestbook Page. DONE
(Suggested by Jhonan) - Change the galleries to match the rest of the site. NOT DONE- Until I look at a better album that I like...then it will have to stay...but I do agree with your thinking.
(Suggested by Jhonan) - Fix the broken link on the Artistic Nudity gallery. DONE
(Suggested by Jhonan) - Change Judi's to Judi throughout the site. DONE
(Suggested by Yanko) - Fix the broken links. DONE
(Suggested by Annasense) - Link the Header graphic on each page. DONE
(Suggested by Alfresco) - Somehow got lost in the nudity section. NOT DONE- Still lost...can someone please go and find him.
(Suggested by Awpollard) - Alter the Need A Photographer section. DONE
(Suggested by Unclebro) - Drop the .jpg endings in the nudist gallery to match the other galleries. DONE
(Suggested by Unclebro) - Number the Infrared images instead of their current file names. DONE

Now hopefully that is everyone. If I have missed anyone I do apologise but please bring it to my attention so I can fix it.

Also if anyone else has any suggestions please let me know.

And thanks heaps to everyone.

Hugs

Judi

06/13/2006 05:17:53 PM · #28

Shameless bump.

Hoping that someone may have an idea about changing the colour of the guestbook?

Or any ideas on better galleries?

06/13/2006 05:56:18 PM · #29

I think the site looks great!

I did a bit of poking around, and I may have found some useful guestbook stuff. I'm not sure what all you want to change, but I did discover that the crinkly paper background, the blue gradient to the left and the blue title "Guestbook" are all images that the HTML links directly to.
They are stored in //www.judigraphics.com/guestbook/skins/Standard_English/images

crinkly paper = gbback.jpg
blue gradient = gbfiller.jpg
"Guestbook" title = title.gif

That's all I've got so far....hope that helps!

06/13/2006 06:00:26 PM · #30

Originally posted by NateAndLori:

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh....you are a dream. That is exactly what I was looking for...thankyou thankyou.

06/13/2006 06:11:21 PM · #31

No problem. Glad I could help.

Found a few other things...

The style of the 3 links at the top (show ..., sign ..., stats) looks to be controlled by the css file. Check the "link" class.

The lovely purple colors in the sign guestbook form appear to be in the HTML doc itself. One I found was bgcolor="#7755BB". These colors are defined below the

06/13/2006 06:12:54 PM · #32

Originally posted by NateAndLori:

Ahhh....awesome!

You don't have any ideas about changing the galleries to fit in with the site theme a bit more...do you??

06/13/2006 06:24:36 PM · #33

Hmmm...just one little one.

I agree that the main site and the galleries seem to be 2 different but related styles, but i'm not sure how to combine the 2.

One thing that might be quick and easy and might help the cause (at least in the short term) would be to include the main Judi Graphics.com title graphic and the news and events etc. footer graphic on the portfolio pages as well.

That might look good and help tie the 2 together, or it might look lame...hard to say! Try it and see what you think (if you wish).

06/13/2006 06:25:54 PM · #34

Originally posted by NateAndLori:

I was actually playing with that idea last night and will look at working on it some more later. I have to duck out for the day but have put all this on my list. I will let you know how I go.

06/13/2006 06:30:09 PM · #35

Sounds good. I look forward to seeing the changes!

06/14/2006 07:07:24 AM · #36

Okay...the Guestbook is now all the same colour and all the Galleries have been redesigned.

Is there anything else that needs to be looked at...oh yeah...has anyone seen Alfresco yet???

06/14/2006 05:59:10 PM · #37

Everything looks great! I like the addition of the header and footer on the gallery pages.

Just a thought...have you tried using that funky little background image on the gallery pages as well?

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06/14/2006 06:04:53 PM · #38

Originally posted by NateAndLori:

Everything looks great! I like the addition of the header and footer on the gallery pages.

Just a thought...have you tried using that funky little background image on the gallery pages as well?

I originally did....I had to go into the CSS page and found it was split into about five sections. I got all that up but just couldnt get the bottom of the page covered with it. It split the page into two. I ended up scrapping that unfortunately....that is what took me so long.

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06/14/2006 06:14:26 PM · #39

I am finding it difficult to read the text on MY GOAL and I think it should be atandardised with the text on MY ACHIEVEMENTS. At least they should both be the same text type
IMHO
Otherwise looks good to me