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I am trying out a new site and would like a review, it seems that some of the columns run over the box when viewed on a pc, the site is http://proserver.com/newsite/index.html

what is the best way to keep everything inside the box on both platforms

thanks on advance

Scott

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That’s a nice template there.

First off here are my top 10 things I would change on the site.

  1. Make sure you change all the page titles to be relevant to what page you are on. You have changed it on a few of them, but there are still some others. Make sure also to add a global page title suffix onto the end so it reads “Home - Wheels of Justice” and for the following subpages make it consistent with things like “Services - Wheels of Justice”.
  2. Try to keep things in tact as far as the original template design went. The best way to do that is to measure gaps using just a floating HTML Item as a guide and it will provide better spacing amongst the elements in relation to each other because right now things are ‘smooshed’ into sections rather than adjusting it to let it breathe.
  3. The first subheader under “Court Services” is not capitalized like the other ones.
  4. The featured image on the home page isn’t lined up in the box correctly with the border that goes around it. See on the right and bottom the image.
  5. I’d consider renaming your pages to be something other than what I named them by default. You have changed it in a few places however there are still a few with their original names. For instance the ‘Company’ page is still called ‘subpage-1.html’ when it probably should be named ‘company.html’ or something like that.
  6. I’d consider moving your logo and slogan down to sit even with the navigation horizontally. It feels too close to the top.
  7. Consider changing anywhere you have “Email” with an address afterwards to just “Email Us” and not post the address. By doing this you will cut down on spam and prevent robots from adding you to mailing lists for all kinds of things.
  8. I’m not quite getting the splash page with the large city photo. If that’s the landing page people might think that there is nothing to look at or that something isn’t loading. You might want to reconsider that.
  9. On that splash page, the rollover color is red and the rest of the site uses a different color. Just concerned about consistency.
  10. I’d think maybe about bolding the names of the staff people to help them stand out and to also remove the “-” after their names. That would help them stand out a bit and make them more of a section.

Again, these are just suggestions but overall you have a great start and looks like you have enough content to fit all the spaces.

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I would go as far as to say that the Splash page in its current form really is pretty meaningless.

It has no content to be indexed by Google and not really anything to say.

It is in effect completely superfluous.

Other than that your site looks fine but to see what PC users are seeing regarding your expanding/overflowing text do the following.

In Safari under the View Menu go down and select Zoom Text Only then go to your pages and increase the text sizes by a couple of notches. ie command - +

This will show what PC users may be seeing as fonts on PCs tend to display a bit larger.

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Dave - thanks for the insight, the splash page has no meaning except to say that we are in San Francisco - I do not really look for clients that get us via google - it is San Francisco, home of the World Champion Giants

btw, what is the easiest and smartest way to produce pages for cross-platform

thx

Scott

On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:16 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

I would go as far as to say that the Splash page in its current form really is pretty meaningless.

It has no content to be indexed by Google and not really anything to say.

It is in effect completely superfluous.

Other than that your site looks fine but to see what PC users are seeing regarding your expanding/overflowing text do the following.

In Safari under the View Menu go down and select Zoom Text Only then go to your pages and increase the text sizes by a couple of notches. ie command - +

This will show what PC users may be seeing as fonts on PCs tend to display a bit larger.

David

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I do not really look for clients that get us via google

How else are your potential clients going to find you?

Not so much cross platform but different users and different text size preferences.

If you are using FW5.5 then the RPL action should do the trick.

Or a Box Model - you have obviously been to Dan’s site - did you watch his Box Model vid?

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On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:54 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

I do not really look for clients that get us via google

How else are your potential clients going to find you?
we are a legal support service and it is by word of mouth - most of the people who google for our services are pro pers and we would rather not seal with them - is the index.html page the most important page for google?

Not so much cross platform but different users and different text size preferences.

If you are using FW5.5 then the RPL action should do the trick.
I have 5.5 and will check out the rpl action

Or a Box Model - you have obviously been to Dan’s site - did you watch his Box Model vid?
I did not download the video, will have to give it a look

this has always been very mysterious

thanks again

Scott

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I also assume that your contact page is not ‘wired up’ yet.

If you are going to use Tim’s excellent PHP Feedback Form Action then contrary to the Tutorial your page does not need to end in .php as the actual PHP part is in a separate action created file.

Changing it back to .html will allow you to preview it locally.

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are pro pers and we would rather not seal with them - is the index.html page the most important page for google?

A good question. The most important page is the one that you want your visitors to get to first but google isn’t going to be interested in a page with no content.

And BTW what are pro pers ?

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yes, I have ben trying it both ways, godaddy is my host and I have checked and unchecked boxes related to them - any suggestions

Scott

On Jan 20, 2011, at 5:04 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

I also assume that your contact page is not ‘wired up’ yet.

If you are going to use Tim’s excellent PHP Feedback Form Action then contrary to the Tutorial your page does not need to end in .php as the actual PHP part is in a separate action created file.

Changing it back to .html will allow you to preview it locally.

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On Jan 20, 2011, at 5:09 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

are pro pers and we would rather not seal with them - is the index.html page the most important page for google?

A good question. The most important page is the one that you want your visitors to get to first but google isn’t going to be interested in a page with no content.

And BTW what are pro pers ?

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Hi Scott

Just been looking around your site and went onto http://proserver.com/newsite/woj.html -

Clicked on Solano County/Fairfield link and it returned:

Safari can’t find the server.
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.solano.courts.ca.gov/” because Safari can’t find the server “www.solano.courts.ca.gov”.

Thats the only one that didn’t work.

Regards

Lee

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godaddy is my host and I have checked and unchecked boxes related to them - any suggestions

Yes - one

Change hosting provider and avoid a big bag of hurt!

But seriously you should be able to get this working with GD - that is why there are Advanced Options in there specifically relating to GD.

Have you the latest version of PHPFF, 2.3.4 I think

At the moment there is no file handler selected

<form action="">

Have you looked at http://help.godaddy.com/article/508

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thanks, I wil try again, I have visited that article and set it up there - thanks again for all of your help,

Scott

On Jan 21, 2011, at 8:37 AM, DeltaDave wrote:

godaddy is my host and I have checked and unchecked boxes related to them - any suggestions

Yes - one

Change hosting provider and avoid a big bag of hurt!

But seriously you should be able to get this working with GD - that is why there are Advanced Options in there specifically relating to GD.

Have you the latest version of PHPFF, 2.3.4 I think

At the moment there is no file handler selected

<form action="">

Have you looked at http://help.godaddy.com/article/508

David

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