Re: FN-FORUM Morning =)

date posted 7th September 2002 04:28

Thanks for the comments =)

Its hard making sure everything is ok when your looking at something for so
long, your eyes kind of blend into what your doing and you dont see some
mastakes you make heh, good to have other people look at it as they see it
=)

With the text in large, are you refering to the letter or the website?

Grammer was never my strong point heh.

" It splits but is still usable in NS4.7 "
How do you mean it splits?

The problem in Netscape with 2 'home' links, unfortuatly i cant get rid of
that, i've found a work around by making the first invisible, which works in
internet explorer, i didnt know that it appears in netscape. I'll have keep
cracking on it and see if i can fix that.

With the menu it self, it can either be aligned x pixels from left or
centered, if i align it x pixels from the left it will be out of alignment
since the website it self is centered.
The only way around it that i found, was to allow it to be centered and use
that extra invisible home as a offset, isn't the most ideal route but i
needed tsw online asap. By deleting that extra home on the left, the
alignment wont offset it self and it will move into the monitor image, any
ideas would be great =). Was thinking of putting it in a layer thats
centered, and use the pixels from the left within that layer to align it,
but i havent been successful in doing that yet.

Which version of netscape do the both appear in? i have version 7 and they
dont.

I see what you mean about the gold / yellow style links that arnt links,
i'll sort that out now.

The text changes that you've said sound great, i'll change that also. =)

oh and the letter is that size for print, its a4 size, 300 resolution, 3000
x 2000 or so pixels on screen to maintain max quality when it goes to the
printers , the letter it self will never be online, just to send out to
businesses etc on paper. =)

More comments the better =)

Cheers Tam.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tam Stone" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Morning =)


Good Morning!

Looks good but...

It splits but is still usable in NS4.7

I think you need to have a look at where you use bold and regular font.
Some of the titles appear regular with the text bold. I'd prefer if the
main text wasn't bold, it looks wrong. Also with the whole lot in bold
the yellow looks like its used as highlighting, which sometime it is and
sometimes its a link, perhaps a slight change on rollover would be good
for the links to make them more obvious.

You also have two links to 'home'

IE looks fine and doesn't appear to have the two 'home' links that both
NS's have. The text links at the bottom also are the wrong font in IE.

I like the design though, sort out the bold text and I think it will
look great.

I think you need to resize the letter its rather large at the moment and
the text would still be readable at half the size (i realise this is
only online but makes it hard to read through.. Its hard to read that
large but i did notice the first line is abit iffy 'take the opportunity
in taking advantage of' sounds weird take the opportunity and take the
advantage mean the same thing your just repeating yourself, choose one
or the other 'take the opportunity of' or 'take advantage of'. Next bit
has three 'ours' in. I would write that sentence as...

'We would like to invite you to take advantage of our introductory
prices on web design packages. These special prices coninside with the
launch of the new Tourism Southwest web design site.'

Thats abit better, if you try reading your sentence aloud you'll
probably see what I mean, lots of repeated words/meanings.

The rest reads abit easier, I don't like the sentence 'This promotion
however...' I'm not sure you need the however in there perhaps put 'The
first 10 customers to sign up will receive...' it sounds abit more positive.

'every website we do..' would read better with a full stop after and
start 'our service doesn't end with the completion of your site' as a
new sentence.

Rather the saying getting on line is a 'good route' I would say how it
can 'benefit' you, it sounds abit more like it will improve their
business rather then just change it. Either put a space between the / or
don't but don't do both.

The sentence about brochures doesn't read write and you should use
'three' instead of '3' republish and update mean the same thing. 'No
more having to re-print brochures/leaflets,simply put your webaddress
on... A website could cost your business upto three time less to update!'

I would also swap the last two sentences around.

Sorry this has turned into a rather long email. My grammar isn't perfect
but I'm sure other people will comment on the letter to and these are
only my suggestions.

Tamsin

Ryan Kirkaldy wrote:

> Morning =)
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> first post to this mailing list.
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> Was wondering if i could get some opinions on my website, its finished
> ( part from meta tags etc ), also it would be nice to know if its
> working on all browsers, i've checked it on netscape7 and internet
> explorer 6, any previous versions and other browsers you guys might be
> using would be useful to know if its all working 100% =).
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> www.tourismsw.co.uk
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> I've built up a letter to go with it, this is lowest quality version
> for the net so it isn't too large, ( 500kb aprox ) , full version is
> max quality / print quality.
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> www.tourismsw.co.uk/lettertswlow.jpg
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> Any and all opinions welcome on both the letter and the website =).
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> Thanks.
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> Regards,
> Ryan Kirkaldy
> Tourism SouthWest - Web Design Specialists
> www.tourismsw.co.uk
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