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#1 2006-08-23 23:17:42
- dododi
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- Registered: 2006-01-14
- Posts: 17
Wetland resources and information site
This is my first textile website for a wetland resources and information website that can be viewed here. I have used it more as a CMS than a typical blog
I have previously used a range of .asp and .asp.net CMS solutions but was attracted to textpattern by its standards compliance and the flexibility that the huge plug-in and community support provided. I will definitely use it again.
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#2 2006-08-24 12:57:27
- kevinpotts
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- From: Ghost Coast
- Registered: 2004-12-07
- Posts: 370
Re: Wetland resources and information site
This is good. Love the overall design — super clean and the content is well-written. One thing I noticed: your footer could use some work. First, the link to Digital Evolution doesn’t work (you forgot the “http://” in the a tag). Second, the copyright only needs either the word “copyright” or the © symbol, not both. Third, there is no need to separate these two pieces with a string of non-breaking space characters. This could easily be accomplished with CSS. For instance, your HTML might look like this:
<code>
<div id=“footer”>
<ul>
<li class=“wetlandlink”>Copyright 2006 <a href=“http://www.wetlandlink.com.au”>Wetland<em>Link</em></a></li>
<li class=“digevlink”>Site: <a href=“http://www.digitalevolution.com.au”>Digital Evolution</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</code>
And your CSS might look like this:
<code>
#footer ul {
overflow: auto; /* clears the floats */
width: 100%; /* required for stupid IE to not break the overflow */
list-style: none;
}
#footer ul li.wetlandlink {
float: left;
width: 200px; (you might need to adjust that number)
margin-left: 10px;
}
#footer ul li.digevlink {
float: right;
width: 200px; (again, adjust accordingly)
margin-right: 10px;
}
</code>
This is of course written off the top of my head, so it may or may not work. But I think it will. :)
Kevin
(graphicpush)
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Re: Wetland resources and information site
Hi dododi,
It looks great! One thing that I noticed (i know I’m in the U.S. but,) the site is loading very slow on my cable connection. I have had great success with asy_jpcache plugin for site caching you may find benefit. Other than that the site looks great.
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#4 2006-08-30 03:08:17
- dododi
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- Registered: 2006-01-14
- Posts: 17
Re: Wetland resources and information site
Thanks KevinPotts and SoulShip for your comments.
I have fixed the errors you have identified. Kevin, I wil have a play with your css suggestion when I get a chance.
Soulship, in regards to the speed, on the day in question my msql server self destructed and was causing some serious issues. I would be interested to find out if it is still slow. As it quite quick here is Australia. I will however, out the link for asy_jpcache.
Thanks again.
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Re: Wetland resources and information site
Nice job indeed (as a fellow Oz-dweller).
Can you tell me what software you used for the quick poll?
Cheers
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#6 2006-08-31 13:51:02
- alexandra
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- From: Cologne, Germany
- Registered: 2004-04-02
- Posts: 1,370
Re: Wetland resources and information site
Same question here: Can you tell me what software you used for the quick poll?
Other than that: nice site :)
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#7 2006-09-01 01:37:04
- net-carver
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- Registered: 2006-03-08
- Posts: 1,648
Re: Wetland resources and information site
Dododi
congratulations on putting together such a beautiful site for your first textpattern exposure!
However, I was a little confused by the way you decided to colour the links.
For example, looking at the articles page, I can’t tell which titles, sub-titles or lines are hyperlinks just by looking at the page, it takes a little bit of exploring with the mouse to sort it out. The main heading is green and is not a hyper. The sub-headings are blue and not hyperlinks, the sub-sub-headings (article titles?) are green and are hyperlinks, links embedded in the excerpt/article are blue, there is a blue “more” button under each excerpt that is obviously a link, and finally the right hand column has a list, each as a blue hyperlink.
Having said that, it really doesn’t take long to figure out by watching for visual clues from moving the mouse around.
Nice work!
— Steve
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