I just uploaded my new version of my site. I did some of the graphics using Xara products. Let me know what you think.
Regards,
Alan
My main website
My Art Gallery
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I just uploaded my new version of my site. I did some of the graphics using Xara products. Let me know what you think.
Regards,
Alan
My main website
My Art Gallery
Alan, Fine website obviously you are a very deep thinker with strong views of your own, I am one of those people whose opinions vary with the wind. The art section I like very much,especially the Chihuly Glass Ceiling. What program do you use to produce these pictures?.
My regards to Sweet Margaret I can see why she is so called. A lovely Kind open face if I may say so.
..Norman
alan nice site, but it's very small and the scroll bar shows enormous width and height! Maybe make it a bit smaller?
Hi Parahandy,
Thanks for the kind comments. You know, I participate in several discussion boards where politics, etc, are off topic. So when people like you wander over to my site and see my blog, etc, they are sometimes surprised.
Sweet Margaret is from the UK, and I think she and our daughter are the most beautiful women who walk on the face of the earth.
I use Paintshop Pro, Corel Draw, Corel Painter, and of course Xara.
Hi Availor,
I suspect the large scrollbar shows up because of your display. My display is 1024 x 768, and there are no scrollbars at all. What browser and what version are you using?
Regards,
Alan
Regards,
Alan
I'm using Firefox.
I am using Firefox and also have the same scrollbars as availor.
I have taken a look at the page source and the following may be all or part of of the problem:
<div id="Ohor2" style="position:absolute;z-index:12;visibility:visible; left:18158px;top:332426px;width:696px;height:10px; ">
Notice the position is set to a rather large x and y setting. I suspect this may be causing the scrollbars.
What did you create this page with? There's certainly a lot more code than I would expect.
Paul
Thanks Pauland,
I'll check this out later after work. I mostly used WebEngine, but I also used NoteTab, NVU, and AceHTML.
I checked it out on both my work and home computers with both IE 6 and Firefox.
Regards,
Alan
Hi Pauland and Availor,
I would be grateful if you could check it out again. Let me know if the change I made fixed it. If it did, thanks to Pauland.
Regards,
Alan
Alan, your site's ok now :)
Thanks Availor,
Pauland found the problem. I had an extraneous object there. It was supposed to be the second-from-the-top dark rule, but I somehow had two of them.
When I got rid of the duplicate, that apparently did the trick. Odd that it not cause a problem on the two computers and two browsers I was using.
Regards,
Alan
Good news!
Paul
Pauland,
Thank you so much
:D
Very good.
Love the Blog.
Thanks Ray,
I appreciate the comment.
Really cool music! :D
Joe
Thanks Joe,Quote:
Originally Posted by jyoung
I really enjoyed putting it together. It was a lot of work. I personally sequenced and/or performed all the parts, arranged all the music except two guitar solos, and composed the majority of it. If you have a few coins, you might consider buying it. The sound quality is much better on the CD, and of course the samples are just that--samples only.
Regards,
Alan
Looks pretty good Alan, but I do have three suggestions:
- be consistent in your design. That means using the same color scheme throughout your site, the same navigation, fonts, etc.
I can understand that this will be difficult in Wordpress, but I do think that you should try at least with the other pages. I can also understand that a consistent look might not be top priority to you, but a consistent navigation should be important on any site in my opinion.
- you have done the worst thing you could do when it comes to spam: using HTML mailto: on your web site and I have found at least 3 different E-mail addresses on your site that are exposed to spammers. I don't know how popular your site is, but I can guarantee you for great certainty that with any descent increase in visitors, especially search engine traffic, you will see an increase in numbers of spammers. Understand that spammers use automatic spam bots to look for E-mail addresses and if people can find you whom you've never shared your web site address with, then spam bots will over time find you too.
- don't add something like “Coming soon” on your site (other links). But hey, I’ve seen worse. I know of online business sites that completely lock their site when they plan a makeover, like this one: http://www.wallacks.com/ Never, ever is it necessary to lock down a site for a very long time (days, weeks) for a makeover.
Other than that, well done, was nice looking around on your site Alan.
Hi BlueFlare,
Thanks for the feedback. I have thought about making the site more consistent. But I just don't seem to be motivated to spend the time doing it at the moment. I'll probably redesign the whole thing later on, but I'm really still experimenting with stuff. I'll concede it's not the kosher way to design a site. It really was several different sites that I kind of shmushed up into one. I periodically try to learn something new about HTML, and then the temptation is to try it out on a part of my site. It was a worse mess before.
I know it looks like I have used the HTML mailto command, but if you look at the source code of my page, you won't find the mailto command. Instead, I have disguised it. The site has been up for a fair amount of months now, and I don't seem to get spam those particular mailboxes. Each of those clickable email links brings up a different email address on my domain, so I can keep pretty good track.Quote:
- you have done the worst thing you could do when it comes to spam: using HTML mailto:
Your opinion was well formulated and has much merit. Thank you for sharing it with me.
I'm glad you enjoyed my site.
[QUOTE=BlueFlare;196258]
- you have done the worst thing you could do when it comes to spam: using HTML mailto: on your web site and I have found at least 3 different E-mail addresses on your site that are exposed to spammers. I don't know how popular your site is, but I can guarantee you for great certainty that with any descent increase in visitors, especially search engine traffic, you will see an increase in numbers of spammers. Understand that spammers use automatic spam bots to look for E-mail addresses and if people can find you whom you've never shared your web site address with, then spam bots will over time find you too.
QUOTE]
what do you do instead of mailto:
? thanks :)
One option is to put the email address as an image (though without a clickable link), or to use a form (since that doesn't expose your email adress, but requires some server-side functionality).
Paul
well i seem to be getting more and more spam, kaspersky catches it but it would be better to get a lot less, so basically if you put the email address in an image people have to type it in to an email
............................................i wonder if they would do that or just not bother :D any other options that work by clicking?
Excellent job Alan, sorry for the mistake I made. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by alanstancliff
Golly BlueFlare, there's absolutely no need to apologize. Out of the goodness of your heart and a spirit of helpfulness, you made several very good comments that lots of folks can and will benefit from. I appreciated your taking time to warn me. What if I hadn't known about mailto? Maybe someone else will be able to profit from your good advice about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueFlare
I encoded my email address into a form not easily read by robots. Here are some links:Quote:
Originally Posted by suunto
- My favorite is Enkoder. It allows for a certain flexibility in formatting.
- Another good one is the Address Munger.
- This site has a good explanation of what BlueFlame warned us about. (Yup, Ray, a preposition at the end of the sentence. Whaddaya expect from a bleeding Yank? :D ). There are some good suggestions there too.
nice one, thank you :)Quote:
Originally Posted by alanstancliff
I got around the spam problem by using this contact form, the software for which is available from Coffee Cup Software - trial downloads, of course.
A very useful programme which may also easily be used for full-page questionaires.
looks good, i'm always put off by contact forms when they ask for too much info but thats cool :)
I've stopped using contact forms on my sites, because there is a risk that a user makes a typing mistake when he types his E-mail address, something that can't happen if they're forced to use a dedicated E-mail client.
Also when I switched from a form to an E-mail address only visible as an image, I noticed that I was getting a lot less E-mails. Now I get mostly E-mails of people who really need me. ;)