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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:56:07 +0000, Austin Shackles wrote:

> nope. not bad, considering it was knocked up on mozilla/netscape
> composer.

That's what I had been using until I started to play with PHP.

It does a pretty fine job at code generation, is a doddle to use and
has nice WYSIWYG editing mode but you can still get at the raw HTML
and all the views track changes made in the others. When you get more
into the depths of coding the menus are effectively context sensitive
as well, the drop down lists only show you valid options.

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On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:39:54 +0000, Austin Shackles wrote:

> It's also something about different focal lengths for different
> colours of light.

Yes, at the edges of the visible spectrum the amount of refraction is
noticeable different. I forget which takes the straighter course, I
think it's blue. How ever there shouldn't be any noticable chromatic
aberation when looking straight ahead through a pair of glasses, using
the edges is another matter. I live in a world that has barrel
distortion and chromatic aberation in my periphial vision. The brain
sorts it all out though.

> One of the things I try and do on websites is to have consistent
> colours (background, title blocks etc.) throughout the site.

CSS is wonderful for this, one edit changes the whole site. B-)
Similary you can use simple PHP to include standard files for say the
header and footer of each page, again an edit to the header/footer
file changes the entire site.

> The other thing is to try to avoid things that will affect the
> colour blind, for example, though that's more tricky

Simply avoid the common colour combination (red/green but yellow/blue
also exists) and just to be sure make the contrast bewteen text and
the background high.

I've also looked at the accesibilty requirements of web pages but
quite a bit of them is subjective. One of the biggest problems is
that, for accessibilty, one shouldn't use tables for layout... With
current browsers how do you do layout without tables?

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In message <5a4970494d%[email protected]>
beamendsltd <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi All,
thanks for the many constructive critisms, which I hope
I've now taken on board.
Clicking on the logo on the main page now goes straight to
the stores.
Orange has replaced red, as mentioned earlier.
The "menus" are now just plain hyperlinks - the graphics
weren't brilliant and the next phase in dividing things up
would have meant creating a whole lot more even more
incomprehensible ones. Anyway, I've decided the text versions
look better, are much quicker and are more meaningful.
All except the first stores page now have the right number
of boxes to give a consistent style - not too sure how I
fixed that bug!

Gives a whole new meaning to "interactive sites" does this!

Cheers
Richard

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beamendsltd wrote:
>
> Gives a whole new meaning to "interactive sites" does this!

Looks good Richard.

Any reason that under Series II/IIa Heating you list RTC5225N? I know
they get warm and puff out smoke but it's goign a wee bit far to
actually list them as a heater.


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EMB <[email protected]> wrote:

> beamendsltd wrote:
> >
> > Gives a whole new meaning to "interactive sites" does this!
>
> Looks good Richard.
>
> Any reason that under Series II/IIa Heating you list RTC5225N? I know
> they get warm and puff out smoke but it's goign a wee bit far to
> actually list them as a heater.
>
>
Thanks for that - hopefulll sorted out now....

Cheers
Richard
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