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Re: Background color on transparent images in news
  • 2004/2/5 20:49

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Me too I used some PNGs last week and found the file size was too big. So I used JPG instead.

Seehttp://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ to analyse your site load factor.



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Re: Albany Christian Centre XOOPSed
  • 2004/2/5 20:27

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Thanks. It looks much tidier with one drop down now I've also done the title at 100% and removed the adverts.

A graphic designer at church is re-doing the top banner for me (whoohoo!!) It will have the logo flushed to left and something else on the right.

I'm going to work on the news headlines this weekend (it's a holiday this Friday in NZ).

Question: What do you think of a Flash banner on the top-right?

Question: I'm thinking of installing one of the Adverts modules. So do you reckon an advert will look OK on the center top or center bottom? We get Christian events which we would like to grab attention to.

Also I love this this article from Heal Your Church Website.

Quote:

+My personal feelings about faith aside, there are some serious technical issues about this site that need to be addressed - and healed. First and foremost, the evil animated .gif background image.

+Holy Mystery Meat ! - graphic navigation should be about giving the user a clue, not an online game.
... the majority of the people who use the Internet are purpose driven. That is, they aren't generally looking to be entertained or wowed.

+don't be fooled into thinking that 'resizing' the image with the height and width attributes of the <img> tag will make your images load faster. They won't!

+Holy Jesus Junk! - remember when as Peter rebuked Simon Magnus for employing cheap tricks?
... [fix] the <title> tags on the sub pages so they say something a bit more descriptive than "Untitled Document."
Lorem Ipsum == Check Your Title Bar - its okay to use dummy text, but only for testing.

+.. sub pages suffer from irregular use of font color, such as fire-engine red on their "Favorite Links" page, all bold and all centered fonts on their dated "What's New" page.
Scan Me NOT! - always use text to represent text.
Instead, we get church and para-church websites so chuck-full-o-junk that they drive people away even before all the spinning animated gifs and cheesey MIDI files can load.
Evil Marquee Tag - If it's so darn'd important, then say, don't spray it!

+I am commanding you, my faithful followers, to bookmark the Web Page Analyzer page ...
It's not just what you say ... ... it's How you say it!





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Re: Background color on transparent images in news
  • 2004/2/5 5:21

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I opened it in IE6 and the images are not transparent.

But they are transparent in Netscape 7.1

I haven't used GIMP before but maybe save them as GIF instead of PNG?

Good luck



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Re: wfsection is killing me. Help?!?
  • 2004/2/4 18:40

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LOL John, you should have seen my first beta XOOPS site for the church hehehe.

I've got a good designer to work with me. While he's not a web programmer he does have a good eye for color and stuff like that.

Maybe you can ask for someone with design background to help you. If he/she could knock together a framework it could be easily accomodated within XOOPS. If you need help with the theme just let me know.

It's a public holiday tomorrow in NZ and I'll see if I can package my theme for download.

Bless ya.



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Re: wfsection is killing me. Help?!?
  • 2004/2/4 7:05

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Greetings John,

1. Where are you storing the images?
2. In WF-SECTION, switch from WYSIWYG mode to editHTML. Copy the section where you have the image code and paste them here (unless you can see the error yourself)

I've got images working in WF-sections w/o problem.
Seehttp://202.89.43.124/www.albanycc.org.nz/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=19

Bless ya.



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Chainsaw
Re: How to say the word "xoops"
  • 2004/2/4 0:42

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Vaiter!!! Vaiter!!!! I need more salt in my ZOOPS!!!




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Re: WF-Sections article as Home Page
  • 2004/2/4 0:19

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Try using WF-Channels. That's what I am using at my site.

http://202.89.43.124/www.albanycc.org.nz/



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Re: How to say the word "xoops"
  • 2004/2/4 0:16

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I say it like "zoops" ie 'oops' with a 'zzz' in front of it.



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Recommendation for a job advert module?
  • 2004/2/2 20:58

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Hi there. Does anyone know of a module that might fit the following requirements?

1. Allow users to submit 'Seeking Employment' notices as well as 'Job Vacancy Available'.

2. Maybe an option to link a CV. (There are privacy issues here and we might just drop it but then again it would be nice if it was available).



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Re: Albany Christian Centre XOOPSed
  • 2004/2/2 20:50

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WOW!! Thanks for the feedback and recommendation. I do really need it.

I agree the nested menu looks horrible.... will need to do something with that LOL *eye my chainsaw lovingly*

We're reworking the top banner. One of the graphic designer in church is going to send me a few designs to evaluate. I'm probably going to disable the banner ads. It's too distracting. Might look at other adverts modules instead.

I'll make the changes tonight when I get home from work. Oh BTW the site is down at the moment. In my moment of insanity I send a support form to the webhost asking how we can shift the domain root from public_html to public_html/xoops2. All I did was asked how to do it and he did it for me


ah well, will have to hack the mainfile.php tonight

Thanks again. It's refreshing to get other opinions.




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