iain atkins

Just been revamping my website front page, and wanted opinions etc. I personally like the simple clean look etc

Thanks in advance

www.race-tek.co.uk

Cheers


Iain

[Edited by iain atkins - 8/19/2003 11:52:14 AM]

Student Bloody Lamo.

shyte! just says coming soon!!!







So is Ron Jeremy AFAIK...













Im sure youve got teething problems tho, so stick with it and you will get there, has potential.

iain atkins

very helpful

i was after opinions of the texting etc, nevermind

mj

Looks good, proffesional - If I had one comment it would be the Power and Performance font is a touch " max power"

chhers,

mike.

iain atkins

I thought that a bit as well Mike, don't really know what other fonts to use though?

Thanks for your constructive comments

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

I agree the above comment from Mike too. It should be bigger and bolder maybe and easy to read.

Paul

SJ_Skyline

Recommend you use a proper editing tool and not microsoft Word! It makes immensely heavy code with a host of unecessary tags.

I am assuming that there is just one page to the site? If this is the case then yes, it looks nice and pretty. Hopefully it will be followed up with a super design and some quality content.

Rich

Alec

Ian,
Like it in general just:
Maybe too many fonts. Also i'd lose the underline on the mailto's.



Just my twopence worth.

Cheers

Alec

[Edited by Alec - 8/19/2003 12:08:35 PM]

what would scooby do

again, fonts are cool apart from dat power/performance one - it's hard to read..

iain atkins

Hopefully that'll be the way things will go, but unfortuneatll i only have experience with word etc, which tools should i be using Rich?

I need an easy to use editor (much like word is) but like you say i need one that doesn't use such heavy coding.

Thanks


Iain

Alec

Dreamweaver if you can. Its the pro's choice but its also the best.

Alec

iain atkins

Ah i do have that but found it a bit daunting to use, is there an easy option in DW?

SJ_Skyline

Iain,

Much as I hate myself for saying it - Dreamweaver is a good tool for starting out with. EditPad is also a great tool (possibly free?)

If you look at the source code to your page you will see that there is a whole bunch of XML style stuff at the begining of the doument, this is at best only ever used by ms word! You will also see that all of your content is wrapped up like this:

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o: p></o: p></span></p>


That is just MS Word putting in a space whereas you could do this by typing:

& nbsp; (without the space)

See what I mean about word bloating the document with cr@pola?

There are some good books out there for starting out with HTML, the idiots guides are good no matter what anybody else here says as are the instant HTML books by WROX press (dark red covers).


Hope this helps!

Rich

Edited cos SN is rendering code!

[Edited by SJ_Skyline - 8/19/2003 12:20:15 PM]

[Edited by SJ_Skyline - 8/19/2003 12:20:33 PM]

iain atkins

OK,

Lost the underlining on the 'mail to' and lost the webmaster bit as well.

Just trying some different fonts for the 'power & performance' bit, but i do quite like it - no harm in trying i suppose

Alec

As SJ_Skyline says getting a decent book is the way forward, one on HTML and possibly one on dreamweaver. Again I think the idiots guides arent a bad place to start but the wrox books are aimed at the fairly technical.


Al

iain atkins

Cheers guys

Off to WH Smiths on saturday then lol

RichB

Don't like black backgrounds. If you really want the text on black can it all be in a box with a simple border and have a white main page background.

Too many different fonts and probably too many colours...

Good luck with the site!

Jay m A

iTrader: (2)

IMO the

E-mail us with your requirements at sales@race-tek.co.uk

should be completly clicky rather than just the email address being clicky. Just because I see that as one 'box' to click on but at the mo I have to go to the right of the 'word box' to get a clicky.

The webpage is symetrical so IMO keep it that way.

iain atkins

OK,

Had a little play with dreamweaver, is the code better now... SJ?

Gonna try making the whole bit clicky as well (on the mail to)

iain atkins

Edited once again.... any better?

SJ_Skyline

The image is dead, looks like you just dumped the old code into dreamweaver. I think there is a tool in there somewhere entitled "clean MS Word document"??

Probably best to start from scrath IMHO so you don't pull in att the cr@pola from word!

Rich

SJ_Skyline

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>race-tek.co.uk - power & performance modifications</title>
<style>
.standard_text
{
margin:0cm;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic";
color:#C0C0C0;
}
.coming_soon
{
font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;
color:red;
}

</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="black" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div>
<p align="center" class="standard_text"><img width="677" height="143" src="./index_files/image002.jpg"></p>
<p align="center" class="standard_text">E-mail us with your requirements at <a class="standard_text" href="mailto:sales@race-tek.co.uk">sales@race-tek.co.uk</a></p>
<p align="center" class="standard_text">Or call us on 01285 750277</p>
<p align="center" class="standard_text"><img border="0" width="667" height="46" src="./index_files/image004.jpg"></p>
<p align="center" class="standard_text"><a class="standard_text" href="mailto:webmaster@race-tek.co.uk">webmaster@race-tek.co.uk</a></p>
<p align="center" class="coming_soon">coming soon……….</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>


[Edited by SJ_Skyline - 8/19/2003 1:05:45 PM]

iain atkins

cheers

SJ_Skyline

Yes it's not brilliant, yes it uses inline styles, yes I know there is no meta information in there and yes I know it doesn't need the div!





Good place to start from though mate

iain atkins

Right, now when i used to create a web page in word it would automatically create the folder with all the files in it etc (images etc) how do i get DW to do this?

SJ_Skyline

Iain, I'm gonna have to hand you over to someone that actually uses dreamweaver - I use Visual Studio which is definately no good for you!

I would guess click on file - new - project or something like that!


Rich

p.s. best of luck!

iain atkins

OK thanks very much for your help SJ

TelBoy

And that's a sentence you won't hear very often...

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

There is nothing there except 3 lines of text and 2 boxes with red crosses, so where are all these fonts that people are complaining about.

iain atkins

Right, lol, think i've got it now

Any better?