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06-03-2008 1:33 AM
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After a change in regulations I was also able to register the Irish (.ie) domain I have wanted for years.
My site is only started and lacks content but I would appreciate opinions on the general look and feel.
The address is http://www.seanbranagh.ie
I also created custom error pages on the server which I am very happy with as everyone hates to see the default Apache or IIS generated ones. They are one sure way to loose visitors.
You can see an example by going to this deliberate dead link http://www.seanbranagh.ie/no_page_here
Thanks, Sean.
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06-03-2008 2:01 AM
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Quote Weather we like it or not the internet is a 100% accurate, unedited reflection of us as a race, which is why I personally think it is the greatest invention of our time. This leads me onto another reason for building this site.
i think you meant 'whether.'
i haven't read all of it yet, but congratulations on getting to grips with all the elements necessary to get that far.
Re: New Site on my home webserver
06-03-2008 9:46 AM
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Just a quick first impression, hope it helps.
Re: New Site on my home webserver
06-03-2008 11:58 AM
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Quote Please fee free to contact me with any corrections, comments or suggestions for the site.
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06-03-2008 1:08 PM
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I would tend to agree with Orbrey that there is too much text on the front page. Better to keep the front page simple and inviting.
Re: New Site on my home webserver
07-03-2008 1:51 AM
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http://www.seanbranagh.ie
Just added the picture menu from the main page onto the bottom of every page including the server error pages. Let me know what you think.
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07-03-2008 1:14 PM
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If you don't mind a couple more small suggestions:
Add a title which summarises what your site is about, "Views on Computers and the Internet", or whatever.
The links on the PC is a nice idea, but they could do with highlighting somehow to make it clear they are clickable links.
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07-03-2008 1:30 PM
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08-03-2008 12:04 AM
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Quote from: Oldjim Although this is in it's very early stages you may want to consider giving yourself more flexibility by making each of the main pages a separate folder which means that you can build up the page off line then import it complete http://webstyleguide.com/site/basic_structures.html
I was thinking about this last night and probably will do it. Shouldn't be difficult. Just need to create a few folders and adjust links.
There would be an index.html for every folder so you could go direct to www.seanbranagh.ie/computing for example. I can use subdomains also.
Only problem would be having several files of the same name would be confusing in Dreamveaver if I am working on more that one at a time as I usually would be.
Then again I don't need to call all the files index.html. I could make them specific like computing_index.html or media_index.html.
I could then add the names in to Apache's config file so it will serve them when the folder is requested. It is my server afterall so I can do what I want. Sean.
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08-03-2008 7:59 AM
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You are best to keep things as simple as possible and have a standard index.html in each folder (if you decide to go down the folder route).
Couple of other points:
1) Use lower case in all file names, especially graphics files. This will make your site much more portable.
2) Don't use spaces in file names. To separate words use _ (underscore)
Also watch out for links in templates. They can sometimes go funny and have your local path to files inserted (C:/something/images/fred.gif) instead of relative paths.
Re: New Site on my home webserver
08-03-2008 9:38 AM
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In the end I used a text based browser to see how it worked
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08-03-2008 4:19 PM
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08-03-2008 4:52 PM
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I am glad I customized my error pages on seanbranagh.ie as they all point there now.
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09-03-2008 10:43 PM
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As this domain is part of my reseller account with Eukhost I was also able to create subdomains like http://www.computing.seanbranagh.ie and have them redirect to the revelent folder.
I have also noticed that despite editing the DNS zone to make http://www.seanbranagh.ie go to my IP address I am still able to use subdomains with folders on my Eukhost server. This will be very useful for media as I can host it on my Eukhost server at http://www.media.seanbranagh.ie an it will still look as if it is part of the same server. That way people will not be waiting ages for stuff to stream through my adsl connection and Plus Net will not get mad at me for using too much bandwidth. LoL.
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10-03-2008 12:01 AM
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On clicking on 'CONTACT' and other links, the following message appeared, 'comming soon' which has an M too many.
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