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Good morning…

Ok I am ready to hear what you think…

This is my first real completed for someone else, going live after
your thoughts…

This is for my daughters day care…

as usual honesty is what I love from y’all.

I just have one issue… on the bottom of the page, where I have my
name… It opens in the same window… how can I fix that… I know there
is a simple one i think… but ideas?

http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc

Thank you!!

Julie


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On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:09, julie maxwell allen wrote:

Ok I am ready to hear what you think…

This is my first real completed for someone else, going live after
your thoughts…

This is for my daughters day care…

as usual honesty is what I love from y’all.

I just have one issue… on the bottom of the page, where I have my
name… It opens in the same window… how can I fix that… I know
there is a simple one i think… but ideas?

http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc

Link not working here …

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Let me repost it:

http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc

what is the error you are getting?

Thanks
Julie

On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:09, julie maxwell allen wrote:

Ok I am ready to hear what you think…

This is my first real completed for someone else, going live after
your thoughts…

This is for my daughters day care…

as usual honesty is what I love from y’all.

I just have one issue… on the bottom of the page, where I have my
name… It opens in the same window… how can I fix that… I know
there is a simple one i think… but ideas?

http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc

Link not working here …

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Same here, error message:
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc” because
Safari can’t find the server “www.grassrootsweb.net”.

On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:44, julie maxwell allen wrote:

Let me repost it:

http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc

what is the error you are getting?

Thanks
Julie

On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:09, julie maxwell allen wrote:

Ok I am ready to hear what you think…

This is my first real completed for someone else, going live after
your thoughts…

This is for my daughters day care…

as usual honesty is what I love from y’all.

I just have one issue… on the bottom of the page, where I have my
name… It opens in the same window… how can I fix that… I know
there is a simple one i think… but ideas?

http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc

Link not working here …

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it seems that have-host may be down. I use them as my server.

I will repost to this post when I know they are up… or keep trying.

THank you

Julie
On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Trevor Reaveley wrote:

Same here, error message:
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc”
because Safari can’t find the server “www.grassrootsweb.net”.

On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:44, julie maxwell allen wrote:

Let me repost it:

http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc

what is the error you are getting?

Thanks
Julie

On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:09, julie maxwell allen wrote:

Ok I am ready to hear what you think…

This is my first real completed for someone else, going live
after your thoughts…

This is for my daughters day care…

as usual honesty is what I love from y’all.

I just have one issue… on the bottom of the page, where I have
my name… It opens in the same window… how can I fix that… I
know there is a simple one i think… but ideas?

http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc

Link not working here …

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They are up again… I just checked…

http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc

thank you

On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Trevor Reaveley wrote:

Same here, error message:
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc”
because Safari can’t find the server “www.grassrootsweb.net”.

On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:44, julie maxwell allen wrote:

Let me repost it:

http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc

what is the error you are getting?

Thanks
Julie

On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:09, julie maxwell allen wrote:

Ok I am ready to hear what you think…

This is my first real completed for someone else, going live
after your thoughts…

This is for my daughters day care…

as usual honesty is what I love from y’all.

I just have one issue… on the bottom of the page, where I have
my name… It opens in the same window… how can I fix that… I
know there is a simple one i think… but ideas?

http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc

Link not working here …

best wishes,

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On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:09, julie maxwell allen wrote:

as usual honesty is what I love from y’all.

To be honest Julie, it looks pretty much like it did before, and I
seem to have said quite a mouthful about it in the past, so no point
in repeating it. But just to sum up:

Inconsistency: on some pages the text is left aligned, on others it’s
centre aligned; look at how odd the text on the ‘About Us’ page looks,
with the words ‘oriented activities’ and ‘our community’ stuck right
in the middle at the bottom of each paragraph. Centred text makes
reading much harder for everyone.

Your drop-down menu looks, for want of a better word, bald. There’s no
background on the drop-down part, so you can see stuff through it.
Also, the drop-down links have no ‘hover’ colour set, so there’s no
easy telling which one you’re on before you click. This is really easy
to set up in the Freeway CSS menu, and I don’t understand why you
haven’t done it?

On the ‘Welcome’ and ‘About Us’ pages, the whole page still breaks up
if you enlarge the text, and gets lost underneath the green footer. In
fact, this happens on all pages, but on some pages, there isn’t enough
text for it to be so noticeable.

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Much better than earlier versions Julie, so along with Paul’s comments
below I’d like to add that the ‘Staff Room Staff’ lists don’t line up
properly. The words ‘Miss…(whoever)’ should all be left aligned and at
the moment it looks like a few names have spaces before them.

Trev
On 22 Oct 2009, at 17:29, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:09, julie maxwell allen wrote:

as usual honesty is what I love from y’all.

To be honest Julie, it looks pretty much like it did before, and I
seem to have said quite a mouthful about it in the past, so no point
in repeating it. But just to sum up:

Inconsistency: on some pages the text is left aligned, on others
it’s centre aligned; look at how odd the text on the ‘About Us’ page
looks, with the words ‘oriented activities’ and ‘our community’
stuck right in the middle at the bottom of each paragraph. Centred
text makes reading much harder for everyone.

Your drop-down menu looks, for want of a better word, bald. There’s
no background on the drop-down part, so you can see stuff through
it. Also, the drop-down links have no ‘hover’ colour set, so there’s
no easy telling which one you’re on before you click. This is really
easy to set up in the Freeway CSS menu, and I don’t understand why
you haven’t done it?

On the ‘Welcome’ and ‘About Us’ pages, the whole page still breaks
up if you enlarge the text, and gets lost underneath the green
footer. In fact, this happens on all pages, but on some pages, there
isn’t enough text for it to be so noticeable.

best wishes,

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Paul,

Thank you…
There are a couple of things that are centered… the location, the
quote about roots and wings… I need those centered.

but the rest is all left aligned. (and I double checked that before I
wrote this)

I will fix the css menu.

and Paul, again how would you fix that problem about the txt??

On Oct 22, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:09, julie maxwell allen wrote:

as usual honesty is what I love from y’all.

To be honest Julie, it looks pretty much like it did before, and I
seem to have said quite a mouthful about it in the past, so no point
in repeating it. But just to sum up:

Inconsistency: on some pages the text is left aligned, on others
it’s centre aligned; look at how odd the text on the ‘About Us’ page
looks, with the words ‘oriented activities’ and ‘our community’
stuck right in the middle at the bottom of each paragraph. Centred
text makes reading much harder for everyone.

Your drop-down menu looks, for want of a better word, bald. There’s
no background on the drop-down part, so you can see stuff through
it. Also, the drop-down links have no ‘hover’ colour set, so there’s
no easy telling which one you’re on before you click. This is really
easy to set up in the Freeway CSS menu, and I don’t understand why
you haven’t done it?

On the ‘Welcome’ and ‘About Us’ pages, the whole page still breaks
up if you enlarge the text, and gets lost underneath the green
footer. In fact, this happens on all pages, but on some pages, there
isn’t enough text for it to be so noticeable.

best wishes,

Paul Bradforth

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ok… I will check all the descriptions

Thank you

On Oct 22, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Trevor Reaveley wrote:

Much better than earlier versions Julie, so along with Paul’s
comments below I’d like to add that the ‘Staff Room Staff’ lists
don’t line up properly. The words ‘Miss…(whoever)’ should all be
left aligned and at the moment it looks like a few names have spaces
before them.

Trev
On 22 Oct 2009, at 17:29, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:09, julie maxwell allen wrote:

as usual honesty is what I love from y’all.

To be honest Julie, it looks pretty much like it did before, and I
seem to have said quite a mouthful about it in the past, so no
point in repeating it. But just to sum up:

Inconsistency: on some pages the text is left aligned, on others
it’s centre aligned; look at how odd the text on the ‘About Us’
page looks, with the words ‘oriented activities’ and ‘our
community’ stuck right in the middle at the bottom of each
paragraph. Centred text makes reading much harder for everyone.

Your drop-down menu looks, for want of a better word, bald. There’s
no background on the drop-down part, so you can see stuff through
it. Also, the drop-down links have no ‘hover’ colour set, so
there’s no easy telling which one you’re on before you click. This
is really easy to set up in the Freeway CSS menu, and I don’t
understand why you haven’t done it?

On the ‘Welcome’ and ‘About Us’ pages, the whole page still breaks
up if you enlarge the text, and gets lost underneath the green
footer. In fact, this happens on all pages, but on some pages,
there isn’t enough text for it to be so noticeable.

best wishes,

Paul Bradforth


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I have made some corrections…

my CSS menu, I did a hover color. but with the drop down the whole
thing changes color as the whole thing is being hovered not just the
individual words… how can I correct this?

I un centered the hours etc (about us) … but I do need the top
centered… did not look right when I changed it.

how do you fix the txt expansion problem?

Thank you all… I love all of your critiques!!

http://www.grassrootsweb.net/tlc

Julie

On Oct 22, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:09, julie maxwell allen wrote:

as usual honesty is what I love from y’all.

To be honest Julie, it looks pretty much like it did before, and I
seem to have said quite a mouthful about it in the past, so no point
in repeating it. But just to sum up:

Inconsistency: on some pages the text is left aligned, on others
it’s centre aligned; look at how odd the text on the ‘About Us’ page
looks, with the words ‘oriented activities’ and ‘our community’
stuck right in the middle at the bottom of each paragraph. Centred
text makes reading much harder for everyone.

Your drop-down menu looks, for want of a better word, bald. There’s
no background on the drop-down part, so you can see stuff through
it. Also, the drop-down links have no ‘hover’ colour set, so there’s
no easy telling which one you’re on before you click. This is really
easy to set up in the Freeway CSS menu, and I don’t understand why
you haven’t done it?

On the ‘Welcome’ and ‘About Us’ pages, the whole page still breaks
up if you enlarge the text, and gets lost underneath the green
footer. In fact, this happens on all pages, but on some pages, there
isn’t enough text for it to be so noticeable.

best wishes,

Paul Bradforth

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On 22 Oct 2009, at 17:38, julie maxwell allen wrote:

There are a couple of things that are centered… the location, the
quote about roots and wings… I need those centered.

But why? They’d look so much better left-aligned. I’ll stick my neck
out and risk the disagreement of the forum here, and say that the only
thing that should ever be centred is a restaurant menu, and I have
my doubts about that.

but the rest is all left aligned. (and I double checked that before
I wrote this)

The ‘About Us’ page text is now left-aligned; it wasn’t just now though.

I will fix the css menu.

and Paul, again how would you fix that problem about the txt??

Well, as in the old joke: I wouldn’t start from here. You need to make
sure that your various boxes are all within a single containing box
which will expand as the text gets bigger, and will allow the higher
boxes to push the footer down to make room. If you do a search on the
forum for ‘box model’ you should find enough to keep you reading for a
few days :slight_smile: I believe Dan J has a really good tutorial on this at:
http://danjasker.blogspot.com/2008/07/fw5-understanding-box-model.html
It’s not trivial though; it means redoing the entire site using a
process which is not intuitive for Freeway users.
The other way you could do it is by using the old Freeway method with
the CSS button off, by making an actual table on your page into which
you put the various pieces, cell by cell. The advantage of the table
is that the cells automatically stretch to accomodate expanding text.

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OK. I did fix the CSS menu…

and I uncentered the roots and wings to…

the only other pieces that are centered are the address and some of
the titles.

Julie

On Oct 22, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:09, julie maxwell allen wrote:

as usual honesty is what I love from y’all.

To be honest Julie, it looks pretty much like it did before, and I
seem to have said quite a mouthful about it in the past, so no point
in repeating it. But just to sum up:

Inconsistency: on some pages the text is left aligned, on others
it’s centre aligned; look at how odd the text on the ‘About Us’ page
looks, with the words ‘oriented activities’ and ‘our community’
stuck right in the middle at the bottom of each paragraph. Centred
text makes reading much harder for everyone.

Your drop-down menu looks, for want of a better word, bald. There’s
no background on the drop-down part, so you can see stuff through
it. Also, the drop-down links have no ‘hover’ colour set, so there’s
no easy telling which one you’re on before you click. This is really
easy to set up in the Freeway CSS menu, and I don’t understand why
you haven’t done it?

On the ‘Welcome’ and ‘About Us’ pages, the whole page still breaks
up if you enlarge the text, and gets lost underneath the green
footer. In fact, this happens on all pages, but on some pages, there
isn’t enough text for it to be so noticeable.

best wishes,

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I will look into this box model etc…

but for now I have to use what I have to get it up. But that does not
mean that once I get my arms around the box model, i wont replace it…

thank you for the link

Julie
On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 22 Oct 2009, at 17:38, julie maxwell allen wrote:

There are a couple of things that are centered… the location, the
quote about roots and wings… I need those centered.

But why? They’d look so much better left-aligned. I’ll stick my neck
out and risk the disagreement of the forum here, and say that the
only thing that should ever be centered is a restaurant menu, and
I have my doubts about that.

but the rest is all left aligned. (and I double checked that before
I wrote this)

The ‘About Us’ page text is now left-aligned; it wasn’t just now
though.

I will fix the css menu.

and Paul, again how would you fix that problem about the txt??

Well, as in the old joke: I wouldn’t start from here. You need to
make sure that your various boxes are all within a single containing
box which will expand as the text gets bigger, and will allow the
higher boxes to push the footer down to make room. If you do a
search on the forum for ‘box model’ you should find enough to keep
you reading for a few days :slight_smile: I believe Dan J has a really good
tutorial on this at:
http://danjasker.blogspot.com/2008/07/fw5-understanding-box-model.html
It’s not trivial though; it means redoing the entire site using a
process which is not intuitive for Freeway users.
The other way you could do it is by using the old Freeway method
with the CSS button off, by making an actual table on your page into
which you put the various pieces, cell by cell. The advantage of the
table is that the cells automatically stretch to accomodate
expanding text.

best wishes,

Paul Bradforth

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On 22 Oct 2009, at 18:06, julie maxwell allen wrote:

OK. I did fix the CSS menu…

Much better.

and I uncentered the roots and wings to…

Better too. It’d be even better if the left edge of the ‘roots and
wings’ lined up with the headline ‘Giving Children Roots and Wings’
above it, and with the left edge of the picture below. Also, the GIF
text of the heading is quite jagged.

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Ok… Done…

Which heading? The roots and wings?

So with those … how is the rest of the site?

J:)

On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 22 Oct 2009, at 18:06, julie maxwell allen wrote:

OK. I did fix the CSS menu…

Much better.

and I uncentered the roots and wings to…

Better too. It’d be even better if the left edge of the ‘roots and
wings’ lined up with the headline ‘Giving Children Roots and Wings’
above it, and with the left edge of the picture below. Also, the GIF
text of the heading is quite jagged.

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OK while waiting for more… which I love…
How can i fix an original problem that I brought up?

When you click on my name on the bottom, it opens my page in the same
window… how can I have it open another browser window…

TY

J;)
On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:19 PM, julie maxwell allen wrote:

Ok… Done…

Which heading? The roots and wings?

So with those … how is the rest of the site?

J:)

On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 22 Oct 2009, at 18:06, julie maxwell allen wrote:

OK. I did fix the CSS menu…

Much better.

and I uncentered the roots and wings to…

Better too. It’d be even better if the left edge of the ‘roots and
wings’ lined up with the headline ‘Giving Children Roots and Wings’
above it, and with the left edge of the picture below. Also, the
GIF text of the heading is quite jagged.

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On 22 Oct 2009, at 18:19, julie maxwell allen wrote:

Which heading? The roots and wings?

Yes. In fact, all the GIF text throughout the site is jagged.

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Is there a way to fix that wo changing the font?

On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Paul Bradforth wrote:

On 22 Oct 2009, at 18:19, julie maxwell allen wrote:

Which heading? The roots and wings?

Yes. In fact, all the GIF text throughout the site is jagged.

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On 22 Oct 2009, at 18:30, julie maxwell allen wrote:

Is there a way to fix that wo changing the font?

It’s not the font that’s causing it, although I’d change the font like
a shot anyway :slight_smile:
Perhaps do a bit of experimenting setting different anti-aliasing or
colour levels for the GIFs, with ‘Graphics Preview’ turned on.

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