My new website

**gwpriester** · 01 August 2009, 03:55 PM

Steve

I hope that websites created in Xtreme are acceptable for posting here as well?

After about 8 years my website was ponderous and overly verbose to the point of bloviating.

Since what I do is visual and not dealing with words, I have redesigned my website to be mostly visual.

Each page uses popup layers containing larger images that appear when the visitor mouses over the thumbnail image.

www.gwpriester.com

I am very pleased with the site and with the ease of creation in Xtreme 5 Pro.

**steve.ledger** · 01 August 2009, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

I hope that websites created in Xtreme are acceptable for posting here as well?
I am very pleased with the site and with the ease of creation in Xtreme 5 Pro.

Yes Gary, quite acceptable. The Xara Web Gallery is for sharing a website which has been created using any Xara product

Good 'fresh' looking site Gary.
Though, having never been there before - I do believe your upload process might have been interrupted as some images seem out of place?

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**zaphodeist** · 01 August 2009, 09:35 PM

Nice clean site Gary

There's none of the blurriness that I can see

**gwpriester** · 01 August 2009, 11:02 PM

Steve - I have been uploading files frequently during the day and at one point I just uploaded the HTML page before I saw that the images were renamed.

I replaced one of the vector images with the July 07 Flash animation image which works fine on the popup layer.

**steve.ledger** · 01 August 2009, 11:05 PM

Yep - all looks good now Gary, correct images all loaded in the right places (no page refresh needed either)

**ss-kalm** · 02 August 2009, 12:26 AM

Very nice site Gary. What's this for on the home page? It seems out of place somehow ...

**gwpriester** · 02 August 2009, 02:24 AM

One of my friends commented that the home page looked unbalanced. So I added a small diamond to visually center the objects on the page.

(It's a small concession

)

**ankhor** · 02 August 2009, 11:21 AM

Great site Gary, but I wouldn`t have thought otherwise.

Well to me it looks unbalanced now with a white margin to the left
That is the trouble with people having all different settings and monitors.

On other thing I noticed, I watched the german glasses site.(GBi)
And I saw a black square (see picture) where the flash was playing.
I tried it in firefox and it looked fine. I went back to IE8 and discovered what caused it, the <ctrl>key and the mousewheel, you know, where you can enlarge the site.
And since it is a site where people come who need glasses , they might actually do
that, using the <ctrl>key+mousewheel. It might be an issue for webbuilders.
I thought I better notify you about it. (And maybe his is something that has to be
looked into by the programmers?)

**steve.ledger** · 02 August 2009, 11:38 AM

Actually Ankhor, the German Glasses site (and others on his website portfolio page) is not a Xara software produced site.
See the source:

<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="NetObjects Fusion 7.5 for Windows">

Before XWD and Xtreme 5, Gary used NOF

**ankhor** · 02 August 2009, 11:58 AM

Ah okay, couldn`t see that, I wonder how XWD5 or XX(p)5 would hold up
to this test, I have seen it before when a site was made in XWD and it showed the same 'flaw' actually.
Didn`t know what caused it then.

Here is a picture of that site where I noticed it

Actually the only browser handling it very badly was IE8, the others didn`t
show the black square, but a nice background color.