Busy — Wed, 19 Sep 2001 23:11:28 +0000

The site wont load for me in IE or Netscape

In Netscape I get nothing, in IE I get an error:

Quote:
error 'ASP 0113'
Script timed out

/site_2/Default.asp

The maximum amount of time for a script to execute was exceeded. You can change this limit by specifying a new value for the property Server.ScriptTimeOut or by changing the value in the IIS administration tools.

could be congestion on the web with these worms/viruses going round

m1l — Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:23:56 +0000

The header was an oversight, I had done it but not FTPed it !!!!

I can't thank you enough for this, I really really appreciate all the input you have given me, now I just need to add lots more content and features !!!!

Also, it was asked in an earlier post what Codecharge was. It is a very clever tool which makes the writing of dynamic database driven sites much easier. It can generate in lots of languages (PHP, ASP, Perl, etc, etc) and is a really good R.A.D. tool but as you say, it does have a problem with doing too many tags ! I'm going to run the site through a compression tool before putting it live though.

Thanks again

Mike

The Webmistress — Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:12:03 +0000

Hoorah, yep looks good

Megan — Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:08:52 +0000

This is good! You're finally there. Way to go!

Just one thing - make the green header backgrounds the same green as the green smiley face in the logo.

m1l — Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:42:16 +0000

Good to hear you think the logo is good, you probably wont be surprised to hear that I didn't do it

I've done those changes and I've also put a grey box around the menu and the main text, like the grey in the logo, this is trying to keep the design all together. I will probably change the headings (Menu and Top clean jokes) to be graphics, using styling cues from the logo but I will need to know what the font is from the designer before I can do this.

Before someone says, I do know the grey in the background of the logo says "sample", I have asked the designer to include this in the final version in some way, probably not with the words sample

Megan — Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:22:36 +0000

That logo looks really good. Now that you've got that you can use it for the rest of your colours A few things to do:

make the background of the content area white, that's #ffffff
make the left sidebar the same yellow as the smiley face in the logo
Not sure about the green header backgrounds - try the blue from the logo... actually, what you should do is take the green and the blue in the logo and make them just a little bit brighter. Then they would coordinate with the yellow better.

You might want to clean up your code in there - it's a mess. Lots of nested font tags and stuff. What is YesSoftware CodeCharge?

The Webmistress — Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:02:04 +0000

I'll put the link in here again http://www.jokeornot.com/site_2/ (saves going back to the other page!!)

I actually like that banner better than the last one. What I'm not so sure about now is the rest! :eek:

The nav box seems very disjointed now and looks liked it's just been plonked on there and the boxes around the headings don't look good either. Perhaps have them as a colourful graphic in a different font. I think that perhaps if you settle on a colour scheme of say three colours and go for a layout that kind of frames the content, that would be better.

m1l — Wed, 19 Sep 2001 08:23:55 +0000

I feel really bad about going through so many iterations to get to the right answer because of my lack of colour co-ordination, all I can say is that I really appreciate all the help everyone has given me.

There is a new version there. I have taken the ideas of Megan and included them in it, I have also put in the new logo, I'm not 100% happy with the logo (I think I want the main font slightly funkier) but it's quite a bit better than the last one !!!

The Webmistress — Wed, 19 Sep 2001 08:07:58 +0000

The orange & yellow in the two boxes are too similar but not the same & don't look good. Change the nav one to the colour yellow Megan suggests and change the orange to something else.

Megan — Wed, 19 Sep 2001 01:16:26 +0000

Alright, you're getting close. Make the background of your main area white. Use the yellow I showed you for the left side nav. Then take the blue from the logo and use that for the header backgrounds (which are kind of a yucky murky yellow now) and try blue or red for the links.