Does my site appear normal to you?

leisuresuitlary · 29 Sep 2003, 09:44 PM

As some of you will know I have been creating my own site.

It is coming on well on the whole but I was dismayed to find that although it looks very nice on my account and browser on Win XP when I showed it to my father on his account on the same pc (and using the same browser) the pages had gone wrong. Fonts were big, links looked weird etc, all very upsetting for yours truely.

Could you please have a look at my page and tell me how it looks to you? If possible take a screen shot and send it to me at the address given on the site (so long as it is not a big file).

I have decided to put this question in a separate thread to my 'creating a website is' thread so that when I have a few replies I can delete the post and erase links to my site and hence email address. As a sweetener - if you do this you will discover my real name!!!!

Larry http://leisuresuit.fateback.com/

29 Sep 2003, 09:54 PM

Hey mate,

Hows it going? I know how annoying it can be designing a website with several different OS platforms and browsers in mind. However your site looks fine with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 98.

Very nice site for a moderately experienced webdesigner. If your still a beginner then well done!! Just a suggestion - change the html on the index to include a page title. An example -
<html>
<head>
<title>*Untitled</title>
*Change to whatever you want the page to be called*

Cheers, have a good one.

Dan

**DBH** · 29 Sep 2003, 10:00 PM

Larry,

The site looks fine to me (IE6 Windows 2000 Professional)

Would you like to have your picture included on the EMD Photo Page?

Dave

leisuresuitlary · 29 Sep 2003, 10:07 PM

You mean email discussions?

Sure, how do i do that?

Can you think why it looks strange on my fathers account on the same computer?

Larry

leisuresuitlary · 29 Sep 2003, 10:24 PM

Thanks Stormcrow - I had been wondering how to do that for the last couple of days, but never got round to having a good look for it as something always came up.

Larry

29 Sep 2003, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by leisuresuitlary
As some of you will know I have been creating my own site.

It is coming on well on the whole but I was dismayed to find that although it looks very nice on my account and browser on Win XP when I showed it to my father on his account on the same pc (and using the same browser) the pages had gone wrong. Fonts were big, links looked weird etc, all very upsetting for yours truely.

Larry http://leisuresuit.fateback.com/

Your using a free webhost, so could it be their advertisement code interfering with your site? Some free hosting servers automatically add this code when the page is served, so you have to design around it.
I also notice you have some bravenet coding at the top of the site. This can also cause problems and if its possible to add it at the bottom of the page it might help.

Anyway there just some suggestions.

Cheers,
Dan

**DBH** · 29 Sep 2003, 10:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by leisuresuitlary
You mean email discussions?

Sure, how do i do that?

I can just take the picture from your site and add it to the EMD Photo Page. That's your pic, in the photo album labelled My Pictures, right?

Dave

leisuresuitlary · 29 Sep 2003, 10:40 PM

thats right. please feel free to do so.

i will put a screenshot of the offending result in the same folder so you can check what i mean as well.

larry

leisuresuitlary · 29 Sep 2003, 10:45 PM

In case anyone else wants to have a look at what I am talking about I think you can directly link to it on
http://pub12.bravenet.com/photocente...0DA614DB35.jpg

larry

leisuresuitlary · 29 Sep 2003, 11:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DBH
I can just take the picture from your site and add it to the EMD Photo Page. That's your pic, in the photo album labelled My Pictures, right?

Dave

My word Liz isn't half fine isnt she?

Hi Liz, if you come to the UK drop me a line - we can 'do lunch' if you like lol,

Larry

kinetic · 29 Sep 2003, 11:47 PM

Everything looks fine on Mozilla 1.4 except the News part which could do with some linespacing. By the way seeing that most of us are so paranoid about protecting our favourite email id, isnt it rather unwise to put your email addy on the site without any masking or scrambling ? You will find some scrambling tools linked on EMD page.

leisuresuitlary · 30 Sep 2003, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by kinetic
Everything looks fine on Mozilla 1.4 except the News part which could do with some linespacing. By the way seeing that most of us are so paranoid about protecting our favourite email id, isnt it rather unwise to put your email addy on the site without any masking or scrambling ? You will find some scrambling tools linked on EMD page.

I was thinking about this but decided that as my site is not one likely to be come accross - its not on search engines etc then it isnt at risk. Perhaps this is foolish talk! Whatever the case i have now used one of my FM spam aliases

Larry

Adrian Bell · 30 Sep 2003, 03:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by leisuresuitlary
Can you think why it looks strange on my fathers account on the same computer?

Has he got his text size set to "Largest" (View > Text Size > Largest) as when I set mine to "Largest" the page looks just like your screenshot.

mammaduck · 30 Sep 2003, 04:28 AM

Larry, Vey nice site

I see in your source that you have the line height for the "news" section set to 10px. You might want to change that to something a bit bigger, that way the lines won't overlap each other.

Hanneke

leisuresuitlary · 30 Sep 2003, 05:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Adrian Bell
Has he got his text size set to "Largest" (View > Text Size > Largest) as when I set mine to "Largest" the page looks just like your screenshot.

That seems to be it. Thanks adrian, I might make a 'front' or 'entry' page with my logo on it giving the appropriate parameters.

What is this type of screen called?

Larry

29 Sep 2003, 09:44 PM	#1
leisuresuitlary Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: UK Posts: 168	Does my site appear normal to you? As some of you will know I have been creating my own site. It is coming on well on the whole but I was dismayed to find that although it looks very nice on my account and browser on Win XP when I showed it to my father on his account on the same pc (and using the same browser) the pages had gone wrong. Fonts were big, links looked weird etc, all very upsetting for yours truely. Could you please have a look at my page and tell me how it looks to you? If possible take a screen shot and send it to me at the address given on the site (so long as it is not a big file). I have decided to put this question in a separate thread to my 'creating a website is' thread so that when I have a few replies I can delete the post and erase links to my site and hence email address. As a sweetener - if you do this you will discover my real name!!!! Larry http://leisuresuit.fateback.com/

29 Sep 2003, 09:54 PM	#2
Guest Posts: n/a	Hey mate, Hows it going? I know how annoying it can be designing a website with several different OS platforms and browsers in mind. However your site looks fine with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 98. Very nice site for a moderately experienced webdesigner. If your still a beginner then well done!! Just a suggestion - change the html on the index to include a page title. An example - <html> <head> <title>Untitled</title> Change to whatever you want the page to be called* Cheers, have a good one. Dan

29 Sep 2003, 10:00 PM	#3
DBH Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: USA Posts: 1,533	Larry, The site looks fine to me (IE6 Windows 2000 Professional) Would you like to have your picture included on the EMD Photo Page? Dave

29 Sep 2003, 10:07 PM	#4
leisuresuitlary Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: UK Posts: 168	You mean email discussions? Sure, how do i do that? Can you think why it looks strange on my fathers account on the same computer? Larry

29 Sep 2003, 10:24 PM	#5
leisuresuitlary Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: UK Posts: 168	Thanks Stormcrow - I had been wondering how to do that for the last couple of days, but never got round to having a good look for it as something always came up. Larry

29 Sep 2003, 10:40 PM	#8
leisuresuitlary Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: UK Posts: 168	thats right. please feel free to do so. i will put a screenshot of the offending result in the same folder so you can check what i mean as well. larry

29 Sep 2003, 10:45 PM	#9
leisuresuitlary Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: UK Posts: 168	In case anyone else wants to have a look at what I am talking about I think you can directly link to it on http://pub12.bravenet.com/photocente...0DA614DB35.jpg larry

29 Sep 2003, 11:47 PM	#11
kinetic Essential Contributor Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: India Posts: 422	Everything looks fine on Mozilla 1.4 except the News part which could do with some linespacing. By the way seeing that most of us are so paranoid about protecting our favourite email id, isnt it rather unwise to put your email addy on the site without any masking or scrambling ? You will find some scrambling tools linked on EMD page.

30 Sep 2003, 04:28 AM	#14
mammaduck Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 706	Larry, Vey nice site I see in your source that you have the line height for the "news" section set to 10px. You might want to change that to something a bit bigger, that way the lines won't overlap each other. Hanneke