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Nov 15th, 2009, 2:55pm
 
I've just spent most evenings last week and all this weekend setting up a new website. I have no expertise in this area but needed a website and didn't think that it was worth it for me to pay the sort of money a professional firm would charge. So I have had a go at DIY and used a site builder template provided by the host. It has been bloody frustrating at times, template was suposed to be WYSIWYG, but it was more like DTETUDA, Deletes template every time user does anything Roll Eyes Grin

I'm laughing now it is hopefully finished.

Here's a link  http://www.shropshire-woodsmiths.co.uk/

Any opinions, positive or negative, gratefully recieved.
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Reply #1 - Nov 15th, 2009, 3:34pm
 
Very impresive the pair of you!! very informative to.......and i notice a certain madam still got her "House" in one of the gallery images... typical!!

as for  DTETUDA.. you obviously have the same software i tried!!

seriously , neat, tidy and to the point.. Bravo!!! Wink
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Re: Web site
Reply #2 - Nov 15th, 2009, 5:16pm
 
good website keith
does judith turn to the tools often Grin Grin

and i love the charles remy mackintosh giraffee chair Grin Grin
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Re: Web site
Reply #3 - Nov 15th, 2009, 5:38pm
 
Woody,
Looks good to me,
Nice and easy to contact you,  
(I sometimes give up looking on some sites)

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Reply #4 - Nov 15th, 2009, 6:01pm
 
Wolf, I know my place Grin

BA, Judith has her own tool budget  Shocked got herself a scrollsaw, I think she spends more time in the workshop than me Grin

Sparky, thanks, now I just need a few big orders to come in
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Reply #5 - Nov 15th, 2009, 6:11pm
 
Nice website, I must say it makes me quite jeleaous.. Really must get mine finished, but it's having the time!
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Re: Web site
Reply #6 - Nov 15th, 2009, 10:32pm
 
Nice and clean. I like the colour scheme. Very readable.  The one thing that I don't like is that a web page doesn't all fit on one screen and you have to scroll down to see all the pictures as they fall off the bottom of the screen.
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Reply #7 - Nov 15th, 2009, 11:59pm
 
londonman wrote on Nov 15th, 2009, 10:32pm:
Nice and clean. I like the colour scheme. Very readable.  The one thing that I don't like is that a web page doesn't all fit on one screen and you have to scroll down to see all the pictures as they fall off the bottom of the screen.


just buy a bigger screen cheap skate... LOL!!!! Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
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Reply #8 - Nov 16th, 2009, 7:40am
 
londonman wrote on Nov 15th, 2009, 10:32pm:
Nice and clean. I like the colour scheme. Very readable.  The one thing that I don't like is that a web page doesn't all fit on one screen and you have to scroll down to see all the pictures as they fall off the bottom of the screen.


This has been the problem of using a fixed template, it will only let me put pictures down the right hand side of the screen. I wanted to have the pages so they didn't need scrolling but I could have only one maybe two pictures per page. It's been really frustrating doing this. I had it set so that a mouse over a picture brought up others but it worked fine initially and then next day it didn't for no reason Angry. In the end I just kept it simple and accepted the scrolling.

I've been meaning to set up a website for years, finally got my finger out and spent a week doing this, hopefully it will be worth it.
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Reply #9 - Nov 16th, 2009, 8:16am
 
Most websites these days drop off the bottom of the page, it is generally excepted these days.

It is good to try to keep the front page on one screen if possible.

The template is geared up for people who use a low resolution too - you may notice large spaces on the left/right of the website (if you do not, you must have your PC set to a low resolution).

Looks good WS.

As for your mouse overs, where they done using CSS or javascript?  You may have just dropped a link somewhere.
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Reply #10 - Nov 16th, 2009, 8:26am
 
Web site looks very professional, well done. Got a few minor comments:

Not sure I would have put everything you have on the "About Us" page. I'm fairly sure your real reason for retiring from BT was to spend more time doing what you love.

Personally I also like to see a postal address on web sites but I can understand the advantages and dissadvantages of that.  Likewise an email address as well as a form to fill (My email program keeps a copy of sent mail automatically, my browser doesn't).

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Reply #11 - Nov 16th, 2009, 9:00am
 
Good site, Keith!

Only a couple of points…

The requirements for obtaining LBC are not peculiar to Shropshire but are now statutory throughout England.

As for obtaining work in the field of conservation, the old system of ‘known tradesmen’ lists kept by the local authority has been superceded by the Trader Register (www.traderregister.org.uk). On first contact with the CO, owners of old properties looking for a local tradesman will frequently ask them who they can recommend, which is when they’ll now be referred to the Trader Register. In my experience this happens regardless of whether you’ve got a website because it gives the tradesmen on that list the appearance of credibility, whether a reality or not!

Be aware also, Keith, that I know of no tradesman who charges for obtaining LBC or any of the other permissions for the simple reason that the customer plays one off against the other. There are other issues here, but they’re too involved to be gone into without boring everyone to death.

And explain the Charles Rennie Mackintosh connection with the Hill House-modelled furniture, especially that wonderful chair. Not everyone will get the allusion. Perhaps a link to a Mackintosh site?

Having decided to retire next year, if anything in your neck of the woods comes my way I’ll point them in your direction. Get your head around sash windows though and get your name on that Trader Register. For some reason they reckon to take eight bloody weeks from receiving your ‘agreement’ to actually putting your details on the site! Typical. A lot of guys are now putting the Trader Register logo on their sites because it makes them look "accredited", so you need to match them.
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Reply #12 - Nov 16th, 2009, 9:05am
 
Lec the big blank sections are annoying but part of the template, nothing I can do about it. You have to remember I know nothing about HTML or the like. The mouse over was set up using options from drop down boxes worked OK one day then when I turned it on next day it didn't work at all. The template we used was our fourth choice,  the previous three we tried did not work at all so we were up against it from the start.

CW I think you are right and I've maybe been a bit to open on the a about us page. I'll change it today.

As for the address, its where the workshop is, but I know what you mean its the first thing I too look for on a web site Undecided
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Reply #13 - Nov 16th, 2009, 9:38am
 
Reason for NOT putting your address on a web site, especially if you live in a rural area and depend on your tools to make a living?

One guess!

The observant may have noticed that when I published that picture of my workshop there was NOTHING to identify it as what it was. We have CCTV around the barns because of thefts of tack and malicious wounding of horses and my alarm will wake the dead, but it's of no use if the stealymen choose to ignore the notices (around the barns, not the workshop) because who the hell's going to hear it in the middle of nowhere?

The reason there are no notices about the alarms in the workshop is to avoid telling the scroats that there's something worth nicking there, and the image of them crapping themselves when all hell breaks loose is one I'd treasure whilst counting the cost of their visit!!

They'll come around innocently "looking for somewhere to stable their horse", when in reality they're casing the joint. The last farm I had my workshop on had a Range Rover nicked, which they used to transport all the riding tack and chainsaws they'd lifted from one of the barns, despite all the dogs and "security" lights. The police questioned me because they wanted to know "why was nothing stolen from your workshop, sir?"

Because they didn't know I was there, because I was probably out on site when they came to check the place out!

It's amazing how respectable they look when they come around "Just to take a look at what you do." Unless they've phoned first and been invited over, NO ONE gets a warm welcome when they come calling on spec.

With a web site you don't NEED any other address than your email.
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Reply #14 - Nov 16th, 2009, 11:17am
 
Oh bloody hell I've just changed it to add the address now I've got to change it back Roll Eyes Angry Grin Wink Tongue

There must be a parable about this, now you mention ponies
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Reply #15 - Nov 16th, 2009, 12:15pm
 
Sorry about that, matey, but it's a REAL problem in such a rural county.

When that Range Rover was nicked we think the gang who did it had either come to the farm to ask about putting a caravan there or had just walked through the farm on the footpath that went right through the yard!

The cheekiest theft was from friends who had a lot of plant around the place whilst they were renovating their current property, living in a caravan on ground just above the site.

An amazing coincidence was that they were waiting for a mate of theirs to come and look at their oil tank. He drove a black Mitsubishi Warrior pick up.

Sandra was in the kitchen of the caravan and saw a black Mitsubishi Warrior back into their yard. It was only when the passenger got out and started to hitch up their £3,500 trailer to the pick up that she started to wonder whether something was up. By the time she got to the door the pick-up was driving out the gate. She phoned Alan, who was down at the house and said she thought someone was nicking the trailer. He got to the road just as the pick-up careered past. Phoned the police who appeared three hours later.

No point following because they could have gone any of three ways from the end of their lane, although if Alan had thought about it he could have phoned a few mates who could have kept watch on different routes past their place. Trouble is, they were in a state of shock for about an hour afterwards trying to get their heads around how anyone could be so brazen.

(Oh, and I'm sitting here instead of working because having had the terrible trots last week, putting me in bed for two days, the stuff taken to block me up has now made me bloody constipated, so I'm now dizzy, have the sweats and thoroughly pissed off.)
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Reply #16 - Nov 16th, 2009, 1:23pm
 
Sorry Keith, but you'll have to put your address back again. There is a legal requirement for it, see for example this part of the Companies House web site. Not that many people seem to knoa about it though.
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