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ptower
09-25-2003, 11:55 AM
I am 49 and this is my first attempt. Since a majority of the viewers of this website don't need, nor probably have, bandwidth wasters like Flash etc.. I tried to keep it as simple as possible, as well as standards compliant.
I would appreciate any comments on how to improve it.
TIA
www.towergenealogy.com
Heathcliff
10-14-2003, 07:23 PM
You're a man after my own heart. I like simple, fast loading pages. Most websites suffer from too much cleverness.

I like a little margin on the side, and links that change color on mouseover, but that is personal taste. To add margins and links that change color on mouseover, you can use the following. Make the doctype line the first line of the page and nest the style tags between the head tags.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">


<head>
<style>
body{margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%;}
a:link{color:blue;}
a:visited{color:blue;}
a:hover{color:red;}
</style>
</head>
dabbler
10-15-2003, 12:57 AM
I also like to make a reference to the e-mail address as a link to open the user's e-mail client. It just makes it easier for the user, and may encourage more feedback.
Just make the text into a link with href="mailto:emailaddress@wherever.com".
Just a note to remember to close tags with </....>

I like the appearance of the page. I can't stand "fussy" pages that make it so you don't know where to start. Good start.

Stick around here and soak up the expertise of the guys on this board. I learned so much from them.
bigdawg
10-17-2003, 08:06 PM
I took it from your post that you want it user friendly, I would set some page margins so the user would not have to read from side to side!!!
ptower
12-17-2003, 01:09 PM
I incorporated your kind suggestions, although I may put in a bit less margin than suggested. Either way, Thanks.