Re: Please Critique my site.

>Hello Elias

 Thanks very much for taking the time out to review my site.

I'm puzzled about the virtualave adds as it should simply put 1 banner add
on the screen. However even then its not appropriate because I'm focusing on
regionalised adds so I'll have to use my other site because unfortunately
they don't offer a "pay for" service.

The right hand window you mentioned by the way is to help offscreen links to
put banner adds on  to attract attention. I will be rotating the list in
groups of 20 selected on a referal basis its a bit complicated but hopefully
will give everyone a fair exposure.

The javascript error you got was because the links onmouseover routine
refers to objects on the map which don't exist until the map has loaded. The
only way out is to FORCE the map to load 1st.

Any ideas on how that can be done?

I read your message briefly before heading off to work and when you said
new window I had horrible visions that I had "framed" the links.  I was very
relieved to realise you meant using _blank instead of _top. Thats a good
point of view I am so used to using the back button but if they click on the
'X' they will lose their return to the site. Yep I'de better implement that
one.

Finally the frames -  well origionally I had the map and links together on
the one page but when I implemented the onmouseover routines to highlight
the maps I found that I had to use pixel offsets for the maps to overlay
correctly. Unfortunately when the site is put into a window and shrunk a bit
the map obviously refuses to move and it looked dismal. Putting it into a
frame meant that I could use a pixel offset from that frame and the frame
itself would shrink with the window and it looked much better but left me
with quite a lot of frames.

Well I'm feeling better already I'll get onto that window adjustement.

Thanks
Peter Newton




Nice Image Maps, there was a Java error, but I did not bother to examine it.
>I hope the site will not be on virtualave on a permanent basis. IT LOADED 7
>ADDs all at once, must have been caused by the frames system. Added to the
>loading time.
>
>Visited Wellington (got an internet friend there) what is the right frame
>for?
>Left the site via NZ Rail... perhaps your links should open in a new window
>so that peoples will come back to your site.
>
>Looks nice, but I'd have avoided all of those frames.... and my main site
>does use frames!
>
>Br. Elias!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-hwg-critique(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-critique(at)hwg.org] On
>Behalf Of Peter Newton
>Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 18:49
>To: hwg-critique(at)hwg.org
>Subject: Please Critique my site.
>
>Hello All.
>
>Well I'm finding i've become bogged down with developing my site caught up
>in the thicket and making little headway. I've got a 101 things I want to
>add and 101 things I've done but want to change. I definitely will
>appreciate other peoples points of view and different perspectives, advice
>and guidance. Please note that this site is under construction and so many
>things are not functional but it is sufficiently up and running for you to
>get the gist of the site. Although many features about this site are and
>will be FREE I will be charging for some.
>I'm especially concerned with the following:-
>
>1) Browser Problems.
>2) When should I go public?
>3) The content.
>4) The Style.
>
>My site is at:-
>
>http://nzsc.virtualave.net/
>
>NB The amazon.com add is just a space filler at present since I will be
>focused on regionalised material.
>
>Many thanks
>Peter Newton
>
>
>

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