... to get the ball rolling

**cristofa** · 01 August 2009, 06:07 PM

Here's one done entirely in Web Designer, then Xtreme V - not finished, but getting there.

http://www.freyalaughton.co.uk/index.htm

**steve.ledger** · 01 August 2009, 09:33 PM

Great looking site !! ****

Only one thing caught me. Going to the blog page takes you away from Freya's site and disables the back-button in Google Chrome.
Perhaps the Blog page should open in a new window? Just a thought.

**cristofa** · 01 August 2009, 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by sledger

Only one thing caught me. Going to the blog page takes you away from Freya's site and disables the back-button in Google Chrome.
Perhaps the Blog page should open in a new window? Just a thought.

... thanks, and you are quite right about the blog; that arrangement is not the final solution - I have a page set up with an iframe to access the blog, but haven't got it working yet.

**gwpriester** · 01 August 2009, 11:04 PM

Cool site. I love your designs and your creations as well.

**cristofa** · 01 August 2009, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

Cool site. I love your designs and your creations as well.

... and thanks. Can only take credit for the designs and creations indirectly however - that's my daughter's work

**gwpriester** · 02 August 2009, 02:27 PM

Well a very good mother and daughter collaborative effort then.

**Tao jones** · 16 August 2009, 03:40 AM

excellent cristofa has a wonderful fresh feel to it, tao

**Cloud** · 29 January 2010, 03:21 PM

Hi Cristofa

Totally agree with Tao Jones, this is truly excellent, only thing I would have done is made sure no scrolling was required to view the whole page.

great

Kash

**cristofa** · 29 January 2010, 04:30 PM

... thanks for the compliment, Kash - re size, it's really difficult to know where to draw the line. Statcounter on another site I have puts 1280x1024 as the most popular screen res nowadays. In making Freya's site fit 1024x800 I supposed it would be OK for most visitors - trouble is, that's not taking all that stuff on top of the browser into account.

Where do you all pitch the site size issue?

**Soquili** · 29 January 2010, 04:42 PM

One of the standard Windows screen sizes would be 1024x768 which was how many being sold 2 years ago came configured. I assume that many being sold with a 4:3 aspect ratio monitor are still that way.

To target that screen size you may want to limit the width to 955 pixels which will allow for a scrollbar on the right. If you want a page to display without that scrollbar you could limit the height to about 600 to allow for a fair size browser menu and toolbar area.