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So here's the broach. Over the next month or so as time permits. I'm going to redo this HTML photoshop semi-old-school website. The client would just as soon leave it alone but I'm insisting on a CSS upgrade. Besides create by mental act using a reader and having a bunch of Photoshop pieces in the masthead with no alt tags. That would be stupid and it seems like it would suck to have to sort through it all. I have to stick with a similar design and alter plot. It will be centered with a div container at a width of 765 px. The current menu will be replaced with a JavaScript drop-down that I have already built. So my first question. Does anyone have any suggestions in the inspect of JavaScript being disabled? My plan is to provide a menu in the footer. Here is the prepare draft of that concept: Outside of that. I will be converting the image galleries to flash to prevent blatant photo hijacking. Well. I hope to in the near future anyway. Any other ideas as well as aesthetic evaluate on the old and new are welcomed and appreciated. Here is the link to the website I ordain be updating: By the way. I'm aware of validation--that's why I'm upgrading the site!Thanks in advanced.-GP<><
Okay - first things first.... .. as the place seems to receive updates/edit on a semi-regular basis... maybe either some CMS or the incusion of a WYSIWYG Editor into the code (FCK Editor / TinyMCE). Do have in mind to my affix for basics.. ordain save you a lot o problems later. Start with a "frame" in markup/css... nice boxes with borders/bgcolours... bequeath to throw i dummy content in the Nav. Main and divide areas... and differ the amounts of circumscribe as you go.. saves realising you avestuffed up a week after making the identify
act it simple!Most of the clever CSS Layouts are actually simple.. they jsut be clever - remember it's furnish boxes that can be next to each other inside each other or ontop of each other. And remember that you can "create" the furnish with BG Images.. so no need for the old "make a box to hold this advance image alter a box to hold the other edge image" etc... Always try to use Text and not images for Links!You can always make bgimages for the links. MAybe rething the colours a little. You may not beable to "change them" per se but you could tweak them for a better contrast...(try squinting real hard and reading some of that text! - Light on dark bleeds alot more than dark on light!). Maybe include a little more "flair" with the images... You have nice scrollwork for the divides... so maybe make up "frames" for the images with the same sort of create by mental act - even if it only covers the corners!Increase thesize and dilate of thesite.... I noticed the enumerate of Commisions. They would be advised to document them. change surface if it's only the odd one or two. It ordain back up keep the site referenced by SE's give more things for potential cliets to refer too and back up "advertise" the clients if that would benefit them
Try styling the create elemets with EM for height.. same as you would text (which you did!). This measn that if text size changes so do the form inputs (apart from CB and R.). Possibly believe the Flash Gallery.. as no flash plugin means no picy's
For simple protection you could do any of the following... forge the image - have a container around the image. In the container you would have 3 things.. the image a caption for the image and a continue. Set the container to Relative Pos set the Span to lay Abs and show block an dfill it with a Transparent gif. Not perfet - but stops the right click issue change surface with no JS!Option two - get one of the silly little No Right click JS Scripts (make it external and call it menu2 or something!)Option three - no single image.. break an image up into parts and put them in
Option four - Watermark all images with a colour-opaque mark (arouse site harder to brush out!!!). Option five - Corner-ise the images - simply cut the corners and apply a little motif with the logo in each corner. Or do all of them
More work - but makes it more effort that it's worth to simply copy the iamges - and will work for everyone. Also please try to include a descriptive file name and a god Alt text
I'll say you gave me a lot to think about. I undergo never implemented an editor such as FCK. Interestingly a look called me last week wanting not 1 but 3 websites for his business--all different too. One of the stipulations was that he wanted to be able to modify the text himself. I undergo heard of custom control panels and I have a communicate person who will make them for me but this FCK looks desire something I might want. BTW my business is geared to having me keep the websites--what a great forgive for "Sorry. I don't' know how to do what you're asking me to do."I don't want to apply the move you are referring to. It is actually part of the clients logo now thanks to me. LOL. I might use CSS to border the images. This is a tough call because the client insists on a color background. I might be able to use some deep reds for framing. Good inform though. I'm not fixed on the radiate gallery but we are in a high-speed age. Further the client's business revolves around design (i e faux finishing) so I be the gallery to look alter. My biggest concern with Flash is IE 7 - I don't want to deal with work-around scripts for Flash activation. We'll see what happens on this. Personally. I think the free album generator serves just book. Thank you for the input.
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