Has anyone seen my shoe? Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 Made a website for the college radio station. Its kind of empty at the moment as the 2nd years have left so alot of things are being dicided like editorial positons etc.http://www.colchsfc.ac.uk/storm/storm.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 The only thing that immediatly jumps out is the rollovers. I roll over, and have to sit there and wait for the rollover hover image to load, and as the background is white, it looks like the button dissapears.The best way around this is a cheat, basically. You create one image, like this, with both the normal state, and hover state next to each other. They can be above each other, or side by side, doesn't matter. You can even have the active state in there, just add a 3rd image onto the end.Once you have that, all you do is use the background-position: attribute in your CSS. For instance, on Eclipse Leisure, the normal decleration isbackground-position: -553px 0px; where as the hover one is background-position: 0px 0px;You get the idea.Nice site though, maybe a little to much white space on the right, especially on pages like contact. Like the italics too, although not what italics is designed to be used for, it looks good.Although people have to stop using orange, white and gray as their site colour schemes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan6061 Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 Not working for me.The connection has timed out The server at www.colchsfc.ac.uk is taking too long to respond. * The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. * If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection. * If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Has anyone seen my shoe? Posted June 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 (edited) Thanks for the tips Simon, I noticed it does sometimes take a little while to load the rollover. I dont really understand your solution though Im sure you'll tell me on msn BTW what where italics designed for?maybe a little to much white space on the rightOn high resolutions yespeople have to stop using orange, white and gray as their site colour schemesGrey and thats the radio stations colour scheme Not working for me. Well I have no idea how to solve that, its is the college's hosting Edited June 23, 2006 by Has anyone seen my shoe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamtrials Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 I think it looks good, one thing though, you have the buttons/ banner etc aligned to theleft, and you have all the text aligned to the left, but the "Designed, Published etc" bit at the bottom seems to be to the right of the centre of the page. Maybe its my resoloution or something,but it kind of makes the whole thing look wonky...And one other tiny thing is i think "There are many ways to contact Storm Radio and here they are:"should read "Here are the ways to contact Storm Radio;" or something like that.T'is good overall though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Has anyone seen my shoe? Posted June 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 but the "Designed, Published etc" bit at the bottom seems to be to the right of the centre of the page. Maybe its my resoloution or something,but it kind of makes the whole thing look wonky...Should be aligned to the center Ill check now*picture*How long did it take you to do that?Makes sense though, ill leave it for now, im sure people will be looking long enough for the images to load Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamtrials Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 (edited) Should be aligned to the center I had problems with that the other day when coding my new site, cant quite remember what wascausing it, ill let you know if i remember what it was...Maybe use a bit of padding or something to bring the text away from the margin a bit?Kinda looks wrong having it all the way over to one side with such little text/ smallish font. Edited June 23, 2006 by adamtrials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Has anyone seen my shoe? Posted June 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 I had problems with that the other day when coding my new site, cant quite remember what wascausing it, ill let you know if i remember what it was...Maybe use a bit of padding or something to bring the text away from the margin a bit?Kinda looks wrong having it all the way over to one side with such little text/ smallish font.Yeah will get to editing it at some point, theres going to be a big update on monday as the editorial positions are decided.Hopefully I get editor or Head of PR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 How long did it take you to do that?Not long, 10 or 15 minutes.I had problems with that the other day when coding my new site, cant quite remember what wascausing it, ill let you know if i remember what it was...Maybe use a bit of padding or something to bring the text away from the margin a bit?Kinda looks wrong having it all the way over to one side with such little text/ smallish font.It really depends how its done. You can use a container div and do text-align:center; but that centers the text in everything after as well, unless you specify text-align:left;The normal way, which you'll find 90% of people use, is to have a container div (a div around everything inside the body) with margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; and it will center it. You need to set a width for this to work though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Has anyone seen my shoe? Posted June 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 It really depends how its done. You can use a container div and do text-align:center; but that centers the text in everything after as well, unless you specify text-align:left;The normal way, which you'll find 90% of people use, is to have a container div (a div around everything inside the body) with margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; and it will center it. You need to set a width for this to work though.That makes sence, ill give it a go on the big update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 that's cheatingor did they finally managed to break image preloading completely ?bloody sneaky that - same principle they use for sprites in computer games only a hundred times slower cos its not C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 that's cheatingor did they finally managed to break image preloading completely ?bloody sneaky that - same principle they use for sprites in computer games only a hundred times slower cos its not CImage pre-loading requires javascript, which for some reason is becoming rather common to have switched off. People believes its some super high security risk for some unbeknown reason.Its much nicer to use CSS if you can anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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