Re: FN-FORUM Morning =)

date posted 7th September 2002 09:46

> Grammer was never my strong point heh.

Like spelling ;-)

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Kathy
http://www.vendetta.co.uk
DNRC Minister for Useful but Irritating Information and Trivia
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Kirkaldy" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 4:25 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Morning =)


> 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 =)
> >
> >
> >
> > first post to this mailing list.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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% =).
> >
> >
> >
> > www.tourismsw.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > www.tourismsw.co.uk/lettertswlow.jpg
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Any and all opinions welcome on both the letter and the website =).
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ryan Kirkaldy
> > Tourism SouthWest - Web Design Specialists
> > www.tourismsw.co.uk
> > [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
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