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Posted by: tedsmithOn 2004/8/31 22:34:15 4377 reads

Today is a happy day for me - it is the day I turned the 'Turn Site Off' button to 'No'! http://www.lost-doggies.com is a revamped version of the former lost-doggies.co.uk web site that I had to close in 2003 because I could not keep up with the manual content of it.

Thanks to Xoops and its developers, the superb developers of modules, and the superb developers of themes, I have been able to re-launch what I consider to be a really good site for all the dog lovers in the world!

Thanks to you all, and please have a look at the site and let me know what you think!!

Cheers

Ted Smith

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Re: Another Xoops Site Goes Live Today!!

lavaburst Published 08/31/2004 22:49 Just popping in Joined 06/13/2004 Comments 77

Nice idea Ted.

I clicked over to your site and noticed some inages are referencing local versions of your images, so you can see them just fine. You need to change these so the rest of the world can see the images :)

Good luck with your new site.

Cheers.

Re: Another Xoops Site Goes Live Today!!

brash Published 08/31/2004 23:47 Friend of XOOPS Joined 04/10/2003 Comments 2206

Hi Ted,

Technically I think you have done very well. Especially for a first try with XOOPS . Only 18 HTTP requests, and about 90k worth of content. What's more I think there is a bit of room for improvement as well. You logo is currently sitting at about 26k. With a bit of work I think you could halve this. As lavaburst pointed out you may want to look at your paths too as the ones in the center columns have local path references.

Re: Another Xoops Site Goes Live Today!!

tjnemez Published 09/01/2004 0:03 Updated 09/01/2004 0:04 Home away from home Joined 09/21/2003 Comments 1594

hey ted,

very nice job on your site, serves a very good purpose as well. one thing, and this may not be an issue for others but it appears your dropdown search menu is compromising your right border. you could shorten the text to prevent this.

Re: Another Xoops Site Goes Live Today!!

YourHelp Published 09/01/2004 4:20 Friend of XOOPS Joined 06/09/2003 Comments 479

Good one. If I ever loose a doggie I will know exactly where to go.

Re: Another Xoops Site Goes Live Today!!

tedsmith Published 09/01/2004 8:02 Home away from home Joined 06/02/2004 Comments 1151

Thanks for your comments guys. Coming from you guys, to be told of done a 'technically good job' is very pleasing indeed. Cheers.

I am a bit confused about the comments about the local image links and the 'so the rest of the world can see them'. Are you meaning that you have dead links with no pics displayed? I don't quite understand.

Thanks again

Re: Another Xoops Site Goes Live Today!!

Alan-A Published 09/01/2004 8:38 Updated 09/01/2004 8:40 Not too shy to talk Joined 02/17/2004 Comments 191

Hi,

Quote:

with no pics displayed

On your homepage, we can't see the pics of "Maxwell", but we see your "Ted_Smith" New Member icon.

Hope this helps.

Great Idea and design

Alan

Re: Another Xoops Site Goes Live Today!!

Alan-A Published 09/01/2004 8:47 Updated 09/01/2004 8:50 Not too shy to talk Joined 02/17/2004 Comments 191

Hi again,

look at your template widths in NN7 - your middle column is relatively narrow - and therefore very long - quite different to your IE layout.
Opera is similar to NN.
Best wishes,

Alan

Re: Another Xoops Site Goes Live Today!!

tedsmith Published 09/01/2004 9:54 Updated 09/01/2004 11:47 Home away from home Joined 06/02/2004 Comments 1151

Regarding links : I will try to resolve this tonight and make them specific and direct as opposed to local.

Regarding Widths - I noticed that it looks different in Firefox and Mozilla than it does in IE (tis fine in (IE) but was not sure how to correct it. I use the Zaja-System Theme. When I adjusted the width for IE I adjusted a setting in style.css (one right near the top - a table setting) to make it wider. How do I do it for Netscape etc?

Thanks

Re: Another Xoops Site Goes Live Today!!

tedsmith Published 09/01/2004 15:32 Home away from home Joined 06/02/2004 Comments 1151

I have corrected by hyperlinks to the pictures now, and will work on the width of the columns once I get back from my holiday. Hopefully, thanks to Xoops, I can leave it running for a while with no major problems! It will take a while to get listed at Google etc anyway.

Thanks again everyone, and those of you that are dog lovers, please feel free to register and place a couple of forum postings so that my 'genuine' visitors have something to reply to themselves. Also, take part in the poll!

Thanks

Ted

Re: Another Xoops Site Goes Live Today!!

tedsmith Published 09/14/2004 18:23 Home away from home Joined 06/02/2004 Comments 1151

In case anyone in the future wonders the same thing, it was the styleNN.css and styleMAC.css files that also needed changing to ensure that Netscape etc see the tables in the same way as IE. I simply changed the same values in there and the widths are now all universal (I hope!).

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