dmwhipp — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:00:09 +0000

To PipeTen: Glad you like the domain name. It was hard trying to come up with something memorable that wasn't too long. There weren't a lot of .com coupon type names available.

Right now I have 20 people on my mailing list and get about 15 hits a day which translates to appx. $25 a month in commissions after putting at least 25 hours a week in the site. I'm giving the site till the end of this year and if I'm not making $100 a month in commissions at that time I'm calling it quits.

I'm a stay at home mom and this started as a hobby. I don't have a penny to spend on advertising so am relying on word of mouth and the homemade bumper sticker on my van. Also looking into ways to promote the site free on the Internet. Wish me luck!
Deborah

Deborah

dmwhipp — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:54:40 +0000

To Renegade: Thanks for checking out the site. Personally, I'm a big fan of the Keep It Simple Stupid school of design. I went with a clean, simple design purposely since other similar sites seem to busy to me.

dmwhipp — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:51:13 +0000

To Webmistress, Busy, taff and disaster-master:
Thanks for all your help. I think I have fixed the problem and everything should be left aligned except bottom navigation. Please let me know if I still have problems there. I tried to remove all the font tags too and use CSS only.

Deborah Whipp

PipeTen — Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:55:11 +0000

Good domain name.

Looks like you have spent a lot of time building up all your listings.

Does this type of site generate much revenue?

Busy — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:01:36 +0000

a tag can't be deprecated if it still validates.
according to some sites half the HTML 2 and 4 tags are deprecated when they are still valid in XHTML 2.
There are better things to use than font and center etc (use CSS instead) only because one day they will be deprecated.
we shouldn't be taking over this thread with this, want to take it outside lol

taff — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 17:10:25 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Busy
the center tags are around the table and around the valentines section, wont affect the layout. (there is one misplaced tag at the bottom of the side section - end of form)
It's silly old IE6
Also for the record font tags etc are still valid XHTML, there isn't much that is actualy "deprecated" until you start getting into XHTML 1 strict and above

Actually, "font" and "center" were deprecated by HTML 4.0 - strict, yes of course.

The Webmistress — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:36:30 +0000

Yep centered in IE6

Renegade — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:27:06 +0000

Looks very plain, try add some interactivity to it or something.
Maybe rollovers for the navigation.

...Home is the only page where, the content is left aligned, the rest is center aligned...

disaster-master — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 04:39:48 +0000

Quote: Also for the record font tags etc are still valid XHTML

yes but if she is using css then she doesn't need them.

Busy — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 04:02:23 +0000

the center tags are around the table and around the valentines section, wont affect the layout. (there is one misplaced tag at the bottom of the side section - end of form)
It's silly old IE6
Also for the record font tags etc are still valid XHTML, there isn't much that is actualy "deprecated" until you start getting into XHTML 1 strict and above