Thanks a whole lot for all the advice about my new handyman website.

I received a great deal of very good advice from this group and I have a
better site as a result. Many thanks to everyone who contributed.

The (almost) finally revised site www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Also many thanks to my talented friend Phill Smiff for the logo design.

Onwards & upwards!

Dave

david lang wrote in message
news:00UCf.11076
The (almost) finally revised site www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Also many thanks to my talented friend Phill Smiff for the logo design.


Very nice, but do you know that that Jpeg is 3418K and 1560x748 pixels
large.
Do you need help reducing its size, its not nice via a dial-up.



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Mark wrote:
david lang wrote in message
news:00UCf.11076
The (almost) finally revised site www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Also many thanks to my talented friend Phill Smiff for the logo
design.


Very nice, but do you know that that Jpeg is 3418K and 1560x748 pixels
large.
Do you need help reducing its size, its not nice via a dial-up.



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Heh! I make it 291px,146px = 522.06 kB size however I'm on 2Mb BB and it
does scroll down? to reveal it rather than instantly appear
--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:

Heh! I make it 291px,146px = 522.06 kB size however I'm on 2Mb BB and it
does scroll down? to reveal it rather than instantly appear

The actual image is 1560 x 748, but displayed as 291x146
this a) makes it slow, b) makes it look jaggy
far better to scale it down "properly" ...

In ,
Mark scribed:
david lang wrote in message
news:00UCf.11076
The (almost) finally revised site www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Also many thanks to my talented friend Phill Smiff for the logo design.


Very nice, but do you know that that Jpeg is 3418K and 1560x748 pixels
large.
Do you need help reducing its size, its not nice via a dial-up.



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Mark is right, Dave. Your original image size is huge, and you are requiring
everyone's browser to adjust the size 'on the fly' as well as download all
those extra pixels to start with, only to be discarded upon arrival!
Suggest you create a web version of the original at the output size (i.e.291
x 146 pixels), and then it will download much more quickly without any
visble loss of quality.

Here is one I made earlier!
http://tinyurl.com/9t2tm

hth and best wishes in the new venture.

Nigel

The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote in message
k...


Also many thanks to my talented friend Phill Smiff for the logo
design.


Very nice, but do you know that that Jpeg is 3418K and 1560x748 pixels
large.
Do you need help reducing its size, its not nice via a dial-up.

Heh! I make it 291px,146px = 522.06 kB size however I'm on 2Mb BB and it
does scroll down? to reveal it rather than instantly appear


Yes sloppiness with a K on a newgroup leads to a hanging.
How about 534594bytes


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david lang wrote:
Thanks a whole lot for all the advice about my new handyman website.

I received a great deal of very good advice from this group and I have a
better site as a result. Many thanks to everyone who contributed.

The (almost) finally revised site www.medwayhandyman.co.uk



Welcome to the Medway Handyman web site!

We are here to help with all those little jobs that need to be done
....... and some of the bigger ones too!

The Medway Handyman is a family run business with over 30 years
experience
with all sorts of building maintenance & repair. We work for both
domestic and
commercial customers in and around the Medway Towns:
Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Rainham , Maidstone
& surrounding areas.

Let us help with Carpentry, Plumbing, Electrics, Security, Flat Pack
Assembly,
Painting, Garden Services and General House Repairs.

We have all kinds of specialised tools and the experience to enable us
to do the job
in the minimum amount of time.

We are reliable, honest, polite, friendly and we even tidy up before we
leave!

Not only are we able to cope with small jobs - we can do them for less
than the cost
of several specialist tradesman - we can cope with larger jobs as well.

Our charges are very reasonable with no hidden extras.
Click on the 'Our Charges' page to find out, or any of the other pages
See what we can do for you.

It could do with some (not much) centralisation and some (again not
much) justification.

The words sprawl a little on a 21" monitor. Have you tried the site yet
on a variety of monitors? And browsers -without your owner's cookies?
In my opinion the lines need to be not much longer that this one:
We are reliable, honest, polite, friendly and we even tidy up before we
leave!
.... to keep the viewer's focus sharp.

And you might use a small smile he *** before we leave! :~)

Something personal (a baby in the family might help there. Especially
if plastered in chocolate or ice-cream. Or is that over egging it?)

It wants to be a small thumb-nail and might even be a link to some
family pics and work you have done.

Or perhaps not. As the case may be.

(Not that it looks like a good example of evilocean, by any means.)

But it wants a smilie of some sort.

In oups.com,
Weatherlawyer scribed:
snipped

Or perhaps not. As the case may be.

(Not that it looks like a good example of evilocean, by any means.)

But it wants a smilie of some sort.

You're drunk (and foolish). ;-)

N.

nrh wrote


Very nice, but do you know that that Jpeg is 3418K and 1560x748
pixels large.
Do you need help reducing its size, its not nice via a dial-up.


Here is one I made earlier!
http://tinyurl.com/9t2tm

hth and best wishes in the new venture.


You beat me to it - I thought at long last I could make a contribution; I
didn't notice the half meg (I'm on BB now), but it woould take ages on
dialup.

Was I David I'd just borrow your file!


mike

david lang wrote

Thanks a whole lot for all the advice about my new handyman website.

I received a great deal of very good advice from this group and I
have a
better site as a result. Many thanks to everyone who contributed.

The (almost) finally revised site www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Good luck - thank you for switching off the music.

If you ever get any associates in Esswx, please post

--

mike

In . 1.4,
mike scribed:



You beat me to it - I thought at long last I could make a contribution;

lol Sorry. Ain't life a bitch sometimes. ;-)

I didn't notice the half meg (I'm on BB now), but it woould take ages on
dialup.

Was I David I'd just borrow your file!


Maybe, but something tells me he's gawn orff....

Nigel

nrh wrote:

Mark is right, Dave. Your original image size is huge, and you are
requiring everyone's browser to adjust the size 'on the fly' as well
as download all those extra pixels to start with, only to be
discarded upon arrival! Suggest you create a web version of the
original at the output size (i.e.291 x 146 pixels), and then it will
download much more quickly without any visble loss of quality.

Here is one I made earlier!
http://tinyurl.com/9t2tm

Nigel you are a superstar! I've used that image and I hope it now loads OK.
Trouble is I have 4meg Boradband so everything loads in seconds on my PC.

Thanks again!


--
Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Weatherlawyer wrote:
The words sprawl a little on a 21" monitor. Have you tried the site
yet on a variety of monitors? And browsers -without your owner's
cookies? In my opinion the lines need to be not much longer that this
one:
We are reliable, honest, polite, friendly and we even tidy up before
we leave!
... to keep the viewer's focus sharp.

I was wondering if there was a site on the web that would allow me to view
site through the eyes of different browsers, monitors & connection speeds?


--
Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

david lang wrote:
Weatherlawyer wrote:
The words sprawl a little on a 21" monitor. Have you tried the site
yet on a variety of monitors? And browsers -without your owner's
cookies? In my opinion the lines need to be not much longer that this
one:
We are reliable, honest, polite, friendly and we even tidy up before
we leave!
... to keep the viewer's focus sharp.

I was wondering if there was a site on the web that would allow me to
view site through the eyes of different browsers, monitors &
connection speeds?

Just put a couple of lines somewhere on the home page asking people to
email you if they have any problems browsing the site for the nature of the
problem in as much detail and what browser ect.
Make a seperate email for this.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

david lang wrote:
nrh wrote:


Mark is right, Dave. Your original image size is huge, and you are
requiring everyone's browser to adjust the size 'on the fly' as well
as download all those extra pixels to start with, only to be
discarded upon arrival! Suggest you create a web version of the
original at the output size (i.e.291 x 146 pixels), and then it will
download much more quickly without any visble loss of quality.

Here is one I made earlier!
http://tinyurl.com/9t2tm


Nigel you are a superstar! I've used that image and I hope it now loads OK.
Trouble is I have 4meg Boradband so everything loads in seconds on my PC.

Just make sure you copy that image to your own site, David (and perhaps
acknowledge Nigel's help). You don't want your page to look like
http://tiger.towson.edu/~mdough4/ (just scroll down a bit:-)

Douglas de Lacey

david lang wrote in
I was wondering if there was a site on the web that would allow me to view
site through the eyes of different browsers, monitors & connection speeds?


http://www.delorie.com/web/wpbcv.html
http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html
http://www.anybrowser.com/siteviewer.html

Although if you were to install Firefox this would cover most issues.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/


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In k,
david lang scribed:


Nigel you are a superstar! I've used that image and I hope it now loads
OK. Trouble is I have 4meg Boradband so everything loads in seconds on my
PC.

Thanks again!

YW! I seems we are both on the same type of connection with the same ISP
then. Snap! ;-)
I guess as an amateur website designer myself, I tend to look for these
sorts of things.

Best
Nigel

In ,
Douglas de Lacey scribed:

Just make sure you copy that image to your own site, David

I have deleted it from my server now, so if he hasn't, then ther will be a
rather obvious blank space on his index page! ;-)

(and perhaps
acknowledge Nigel's help).
8

Good heavens no. Don't want me cluttering it all up, now do we?!! lol
N.

In k,
david lang scribed:
Thanks a whole lot for all the advice about my new handyman website.

I received a great deal of very good advice from this group and I have a
better site as a result. Many thanks to everyone who contributed.

The (almost) finally revised site www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

8

Quick question, Dave. Who is hosting your website?

Nigel

david lang wrote:
I was wondering if there was a site on the web that would allow me to view
site through the eyes of different browsers, monitors & connection speeds?

There was once though I cant find the link in my bookmarks anymore.

Try installing Opera browser www.opera.no/ this has features to test
display under various conditions and the display can be set to show
window size etc.



--
David Clark

$message_body_include ="PLES RING IF AN RNSR IS REQIRD"

nrh wrote:
In k,
david lang scribed:

Thanks a whole lot for all the advice about my new handyman website.

I received a great deal of very good advice from this group and I have a
better site as a result. Many thanks to everyone who contributed.

The (almost) finally revised site www.medwayhandyman.co.uk


8

Quick question, Dave. Who is hosting your website?

namehog.net (of whom I'd never heard before). And the host machine
appears to be one of their dns servers. Hmmmmm. This sort of information
can be obtained from commands like whois, dig or even host.

Douglas de Lacey.

In article ,
david lang wrote:
I was wondering if there was a site on the web that would allow me to
view site through the eyes of different browsers, monitors & connection
speeds?

It seems to work well on my RISC OS browsers - although looks somewhat
different on Fresco and Oregano 1.

--
*If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In ,
Douglas de Lacey scribed:

namehog.net (of whom I'd never heard before). And the host machine
appears to be one of their dns servers. Hmmmmm. This sort of information
can be obtained from commands like whois, dig or even host.

Yes, "appears to be" is the operative phrase here. I was wanting to be
certain, as I have already tried reverse dns and got timeouts after certain
hops. I am not very good at this investigative malarkey WRT the old
internet, so was looking for clarification.

My question was originally based on establishing whether or not he was
having his commercially oriented website hosted on his ISP's personal
webspace allocation, which could possibly result in him having the plug
pulled on it if they found out. (He and I share the same ISP and BB
connection speeds)
In his case, it is not a certainty as this area is a bit vague in terms of
their A.U.P. But I was going to suggest he runs this past their abuse team
to give it the once over and get the OK first, before steaming off into the
wide blueyonder. However, I think you are right, and he has got his bases
covered with a commercial hosting provider.

Nigel

DJC wrote


Try installing Opera browser www.opera.no/ this has features to test
display under various conditions and the display can be set to show
window size etc.

Could you tell me how this is done?

I use Opera and run a community website; I would love to use this feature -
I must admit I don't keep several browsers installed, though I should.

(I've found a thing called Styles, but it doesn't seem to do what you
describe)


--

mike

nrh wrote:

Quick question, Dave. Who is hosting your website?

http://www.namehog.net/

I find them really helpful.

Dave

Owain wrote


In Opera, select Tools Preferences Advanced Browsing Show window
size (in v. 8.5)

View Styles User Mode allows setting text-only browser emulation
etc. Shift-F11 allows narrow window mode emulating mobile phones etc.

I put Opera on the PC I used at the training centre where I was doing my
ECDL. Using it in text mode / full screen freaked out the instructor.

That's very neat Owain, thanks a lot

--

mike