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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Thanks to everyone who took the time to look at this, and I'm gald at least some of you liked the pictures. Most of the comments were about the site itself, so I'd like to discuss some of the issues raised: My main aim when designing the site (my first, by the way) was to keep it clean and simple. I wanted to show off the pictures with the minimum of fuss, and as a result I put nothing on the front page to explain who I was or what the site was for! My original prototype used frames to separate the title from the explanatory blurb from the thumbnails, and it looked awful, so I opted for the simple approach. Having said that, I also felt that some explanation of the different sections of the gallery was necessary, hence the fading text when you roll over a thumbnail. Looking at it again, I think I was wrong and I'll probably remove it. As for the tiled background, I can't make up my mind whether I like it or not, and I see it has split opinion here as well. Having seen the site with and without the background, I feel that it takes away some of the starkness of a totally black background, but perhaps repeating the name of the site over and over is a bit sickening! I'll experiment with different backgrounds to see if I can come up with something better - perhaps just a dark but not black colour will do it? Icons - how many icons are truly intuitive, especially when they are trying to convey abstract concepts? The 'Information' icon is based on a British road sign which indicates an 'Information Point', but I can see that most people wouldn't know that! I suppose I could have used a question mark, but that doesn't really mean the same thing. I guess that if the visitor really wants to find out more about the site (rather than just look at the pictures, which is what it's really all about), they will try clicking a link or two to see what happens. Maybe another solution would be to write 'Info' or 'Random' in small letters under the icon? HTML - I'm aware that some of this is not as pretty as it could be, but I'm just a beginner :) Much of it is generated by my web page software, but some of it is my own fault! What really annoys me are the miriad differences between Explorer and Netscape - what the hell happened to standards! I notice that the navigation icons on the individual pictures don't show up in Netscape 7, since they are in a separate division, and what's happened to the horizontal rule under the picture title? What part of <HR> doesn't Netscape understand :mad: I'll have to try and sort it out one day, but I'm more interested in photography than HTML! Enough already. I've taken note of the other comments you've all made, and I'll be adding some more pictures soon, so don't forget to come back. Thanks again, Simon "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." Loading...
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