I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check it
out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com

wrote:
I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check
it out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com

First impressions...get rid of the awful font writing and just use plain
script font.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

Will do. Thanks. What about the content?

Barry

The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
wrote:
I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check
it out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com

First impressions...get rid of the awful font writing and just use plain
script font.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

I take it it was just the list on the index page? Thats done, thank
you.

wrote:
I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check it
out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com

Nice! You made my favorites mainly because of all the links. Here are
a few suggestions:

Use a serif font to make reading easier (Times, Courier, Book Antiqua,
etc). Ditch the RED "Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither will
your perfect workshop be..." in Verdana font, can be hard to read.

The first picture on the 'wood' page makes that text hard to read.
Move the picture to the side or run the text differently.

You already have enough links that they need to be organized.

I'm guessing you have that list at the bottom of your front page to
generate search engine hits. It looks bad so do some research on that.
maybe change the font to white to hide and make it small.

Put 'http://www.muckleshed.com' or 'www.muckleshed.com' in your
signature line on your posts so it comes up as a link.

Overall it looks good and the navigation is easy with the header at the
top allowing you to easily jump around. Keep up the good work.

wrote:
I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check it
out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com

on your index page,under site currently contains info on section
1. alphabetize items
2. place items in a 1,2 or 3 columns
3. have items so they link to the info
4. I never did find any sheds?

Looks good. Just one or two little details I noticed in the tool review
section: It's biscuit "joiner", not "jointer", and the other category
called "joiners" should be spelled "jointers". Looking forward to more.
Tom
wrote:
I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check it
out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com

Thanks RayV,

I've just tweaked it a bit, any other advice/ observations would be
gratefully recieved.

Barry

Thanks wideglide,

I've just tweaked it a little. The list on the index wasn't meant to
be there, so thats sorted... and you're right, not much shed going on
a the moment. I only started building the site last saturday and
haven't got round to taking the photo's and stuff I want for the shed
bit. It will come.

Thanks for your advice, please keep it coming...

Thanks very much Tom.

I've sorted it, any other help or advice would be gratefully recived.

Barry

muckleshed.com

tom wrote:
Looks good. Just one or two little details I noticed in the tool review
section: It's biscuit "joiner", not "jointer", and the other category
called "joiners" should be spelled "jointers". Looking forward to more.
Tom
wrote:
I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check it
out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com

" wrote in
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I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check
it
out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com


Greetings,

I think you should try to resize the tables so the conten would fit on a
normal 1024-768 screen, maybe even 800x600 for folks with older
machines.....I didn't look at the source but I would just size the
tables by percentage rather than pixels...

hope this helps...

DCH

Barry
A nice start but you need to check other browsers than IE. The links do not
all work on Firefox and Opera. In fact the plans link tries to download a
..doc file in both. It appears from the code that you are using a WYSIWYG
page coder. I think it is better to use HTML or one of the family and code
straight. If not then you need to check that your coder works in all the
main browsers.
______
God bless and safe turning
Darrell Feltmate
Truro, NS, Canada
www.aroundthewoods.com
"DCH" wrote in message
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" wrote in
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I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check
it
out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com


Greetings,

I think you should try to resize the tables so the conten would fit on a
normal 1024-768 screen, maybe even 800x600 for folks with older
machines.....I didn't look at the source but I would just size the
tables by percentage rather than pixels...

hope this helps...

DCH

wrote:
I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check it
out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

I'd be happy to write a review on my Ryobi BT3100 table saw, although
there is a whole newsgroup for it. (It is the only Ryobi tool I own --
gave away a Ryobi drill to my sister-in-law!). This little saw is
amazing if you do not have room (or money) for a nice big cabinet saw.

My latest tool is a De Walt DW735 13" Planer -- initial tests of
running about 20 feet of lumber -- h Yeah, what an awesome product!

Please somebody throw in some reviews on bandsaws, especially the
Powermatic 14". I've about given up on buying any more cheap tools.
I've got a tabletop Delta 9" that is fine for hobby work, but too small
and underpowered for any woodworking tasks.

I like your web concept. I want to build a shed next year ...

Lee

I second that. I'm an avid Firefox user and had to open IE to look at
your site.

To write your HTML code I recommend jEdit (http://www.jedit.org) if you
want something free, or Macromedia's Dreamweaver.

Good luck,

-DJ


Darrell Feltmate wrote:
Barry
A nice start but you need to check other browsers than IE. The links do not
all work on Firefox and Opera. In fact the plans link tries to download a
.doc file in both. It appears from the code that you are using a WYSIWYG
page coder. I think it is better to use HTML or one of the family and code
straight. If not then you need to check that your coder works in all the
main browsers.
______
God bless and safe turning
Darrell Feltmate
Truro, NS, Canada
www.aroundthewoods.com
"DCH" wrote in message
...
" wrote in
ups.com:

I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check
it
out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com

Greetings,

I think you should try to resize the tables so the conten would fit on a
normal 1024-768 screen, maybe even 800x600 for folks with older
machines.....I didn't look at the source but I would just size the
tables by percentage rather than pixels...

hope this helps...

DCH

" wrote in
ups.com:

I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check it
out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com


I'd suggest DAGS for "Website Usabiltity." (The first site on the list
is Jakob Nielsen's. I highly recommend the site. How highly? It's my
number 1 recommended website.)

One pet peeve of mine is "under construction" signs. One of Uncreative
Labs' (see signature) website guidelines is to always maintain a complete
look and feel. No "under construction" signs and no 404 errors.

Puckdropper
--
Wise is the man who attempts to answer his question before asking it.

To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm

I'm fairly new to all this web stuff, but i'll look into your ideas
this week. Many many thanks

The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
wrote:
I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check
it out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com

First impressions...get rid of the awful font writing and just use plain
script font.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

I'm swapping to a bigger bandwidth, but could you check out for the few
of you who visited my website, you'll know that I had
problems from the start... well I still have. To conquor the
bandwidth problem I'm currently changing my Host, so in the mean time,
i'm trying to iron out the problems I had with the site itself.

Please check out my other site and email me your comments on what to
add, take away or change...


http://www.woodworking.wizkids.co.uk/


many thanks!





http://www.woodworking.wizkids.co.uk/

and tell me if this is any better!

Many thanks.

wide glide wrote:
wrote:
I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check it
out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com

on your index page,under site currently contains info on section
1. alphabetize items
2. place items in a 1,2 or 3 columns
3. have items so they link to the info
4. I never did find any sheds?

Thank you for your help before, I need it again....

please check out for the few of you who visited my website, you'll know
that I had
problems from the start... well I still have. To conquor the
bandwidth problem I'm currently changing my Host, so in the mean time,
i'm trying to iron out the problems I had with the site itself.

Please check out my other site and email me your comments on what to
add, take away or change...


http://www.woodworking.wizkids.co.uk/


many thanks!





http://www.woodworking.wizkids.co.uk/

and give your views.

Ta

wide glide wrote:
wrote:
I'm trying to make a website for sheds, workshops and tools, which has
a large woodworking section. Could you guys (and gals) please check it
out and give me some advice on what to add to it.

It's still under construction, so please excuse some of the dodgy
design faults!!

Barry.

muckleshed.com

on your index page,under site currently contains info on section
1. alphabetize items
2. place items in a 1,2 or 3 columns
3. have items so they link to the info
4. I never did find any sheds?

Thank you for your help before, I need it again....

please check out for the few of you who visited my website, you'll know
that I had
problems from the start... well I still have. To conquor the
bandwidth problem I'm currently changing my Host, so in the mean time,
i'm trying to iron out the problems I had with the site itself.

Please check out my other site and email me your comments on what to
add, take away or change...


http://www.woodworking.wizkids.co.uk/


many thanks!





http://www.woodworking.wizkids.co.uk/

and give your views.

Ta