Thread: New Site

Just published a new site for my work. Still have more to do. Any suggestions?

Danielle
www.wilsonpaves.com
www.vincentvonfrankenberg.com

You are off to a good start. A couple of suggestions?

- center your pages in the browser (View, Page Properties, check the box the says "Center in Browser")

- name your pages (for example, with your homepage, you can say something like "Welcome to Wilson, Paves & Associates Insurance Agency, Inc."...you can do this in the Page Properties dialog box by typing this in the Title box)

- Where you have helpful links, make sure that these links open up into a new window so that the viewer doesn't have to struggle to get back to your site. (In the Target for each of these links, like DMV, select _blank)

hope this helps. you are doing really well with your site. keep up the good work.

AmaDee,

Great suggestions! I will work on it!

Danielle

like I said ealier, Danielle, you are off to a great start. I wish you the very best and I will keep checking back to see how you are coming along.

Thank you. Did you check out my first site and if so...any suggestions? I am always looking to make improvements! :)

www.vincentvonfrankenberg.com

I did and I wanted to offer my condolences, but wasn't sure...(let me go back there and see if I can offer any advice)

ok, let's start with the photo album...I think you should make use of either the Photo Gallery or Lightbox option (Insert, Extra, Photo Gallery or Lightbox). I say this because this will give the page a sense of organization. And also, you can have the titles under the pictures like you do now.

Also, make the page's width 800 and center it in your browser (View, Page Properties).

When you're done with this page, we'll take a look at the other ones. How does that sound?

Danielle,
The two images at the bottom of http://www.wilsonpaves.com/ Blue Shield of Cali and Independent Insurance Agent are very fuzzy. Did a search and found this , you can probably get the ones you need from your source.

Good start Danielle

The header text and logo (WPA) looks a little choppy. If you want some help with it, I would be more than happy to lend some time on it.

Danny Canada

Originally Posted by bill2006

Danielle,
The two images at the bottom of http://www.wilsonpaves.com/ Blue Shield of Cali and Independent Insurance Agent are very fuzzy. Did a search and found this , you can probably get the ones you need from your source.

Yeah...I know. This is just a rough draft and the bosses wanted it up and running as is for now. Will be tweeking things a little at a time and that is one of them. Thanks for the heads up.

Danielle

AmaDee,

Took your suggestions for www.wilsonpaves.com and made the corrections. Oh and thanks for the kind words regarding our son. I created www.vincentvonfrankenberg almost two years ago and haven't really worked too much on it in a while. I do think the photo album needs some help and I am going to work on it and other things....like the songs. Grrrr! I want the music to load quickly and have been stuggling with that. Back to the drawing board! he he! But any and all suggestions are welcome.

Thanks again,

Danielle

Originally Posted by Danny Canada

Good start Danielle

The header text and logo (WPA) looks a little choppy. If you want some help with it, I would be more than happy to lend some time on it.

Danny Canada

Danny,

Thanks for the message and I appriciate you willingness to help. Don't know what you can do though but I appriciate any suggestions.

Danielle

Had some spare time to kill so did something up for a header

Danny

Wow Danny...That is very cool! What program are you using? Looks great! :) Thank you for taking the time to do that. I will show it to the powers that be and see if they want me to use it. Thank you again!!!!!

Danielle

Hey Danielle,
It may be my machine here at work but on the index page and a couple of others, the font is jagged. I don't know if anyone else has this, but it looks like it's been streatched or something. It really looks good though, very nice!

Originally Posted by Danielle@WPA

Wow Danny...That is very cool! What program are you using? Looks great! :) Thank you for taking the time to do that. I will show it to the powers that be and see if they want me to use it. Thank you again!!!!!

Danielle

Not a problem and your welcome!

It was done with Adobe Photoshop and only took a couple of minutes to do up. Just let me know if you need a little help with something and i'll see what I can do.

Danny

Hi Danielle

Did something up if you wanted to have a boo at it:


http://www.exportbc.com/wilsonpaves.html


Danny

Danny,

Looks like I need to get Adobe Photoshop! Looks great! The only thing is that the logo doesn't match completely and the name isn't complete (Wilson, Paves & Associates Insurance Agency, Inc.)....Other than that.....super! I love it. So Photoshop is what I will need to do the fonts on the header???

Thanks Danielle

Yes, Photoshop allows you to do lots of nifty things to manipulate fonts or images. I have been using it for about 10 years now. Sorry about the proper spelling as I just did it up as a mock-up to give you an idea of how far you can take your web site and it was just an example.

Good luck with your site!

Danny

I hope I don’t ruin your day but the I like to comment today and be honest too. The main font is so wrong for the purpose. Insurance + Agency = believe in us. It should be way more elegant or then just more plain. This is more like a high school hand writing font. (By the way I took this morning as to pay it forward as my opinions to others since my sites have been remarked, “Appraised” and commented upon.)
Copperplate Gothic light if you must make tricks is one suggestion. I figured out it can take weeks for some browser updates before some computers actually read “weird” texts and I was only using TW Cent condensed (always likeable but sometimes seems to follow in time).
It really is a quick trick to change the font.

Oh, and put those index page links little bit more down. After all they are links. Also at your contact page, change your Times roman to match the smaller italic version. Overall you are using too many font sizes and styles and before you show the work to the bosses I would cut them down to Copper (+ one of the following) and Verdana, Times Roman or then my favorite TW Cent Con. Try to keep the style wheather its italic or regular. Still when people jump the pages, difference jumps out.

I did catch some Bahamas feeling thoughJ

Originally Posted by Danny Canada

Thanks Danielle

Yes, Photoshop allows you to do lots of nifty things to manipulate fonts or images. I have been using it for about 10 years now. Sorry about the proper spelling as I just did it up as a mock-up to give you an idea of how far you can take your web site and it was just an example.

Good luck with your site!

Danny

Danny,

I think your ideas are amazing. Is the Header (Wilson, Paves.....) from Photoshop? I know the new version has the Logo Maker but I haven't had time to mess with it.

I will try to implement your ideas....if I can. I feel a little handycaped! :) I don't have Photoshop yet. Maybe I need to get it???? What version would you recommend?

Thanks again for all your time and help. I have been looking around to get ideas and the fact that you were willing to jump in and help me is so very appriciated. Lord knows I need the help.

Thanks again Danny!!!!

Danielle

Originally Posted by Cornuto

I hope I don’t ruin your day but the I like to comment today and be honest too. The main font is so wrong for the purpose. Insurance + Agency = believe in us. It should be way more elegant or then just more plain. This is more like a high school hand writing font. (By the way I took this morning as to pay it forward as my opinions to others since my sites have been remarked, “Appraised” and commented upon.)
Copperplate Gothic light if you must make tricks is one suggestion. I figured out it can take weeks for some browser updates before some computers actually read “weird” texts and I was only using TW Cent condensed (always likeable but sometimes seems to follow in time).
It really is a quick trick to change the font.

Oh, and put those index page links little bit more down. After all they are links. Also at your contact page, change your Times roman to match the smaller italic version. Overall you are using too many font sizes and styles and before you show the work to the bosses I would cut them down to Copper (+ one of the following) and Verdana, Times Roman or then my favorite TW Cent Con. Try to keep the style wheather its italic or regular. Still when people jump the pages, difference jumps out.

I did catch some Bahamas feeling thoughJ

Cornuto,

Comments on any kind are welcome. I appriciate you taking the time to check it out and let me know what you think. I will take a look at the fonts and will consider your suggestions.

Thanks,

Danielle

Okay....I made some changes from all the wonderful suggestions I received. I still have more to do but am happy with what I have so far.

Thank you for all your help and suggestions!!

Danielle

Well....now that the server is up and running again....

Danny and AmaDee,

Would love your comments on the changes I made with your help!

Danielle

Hi Danielle,
I just pop in now.
May be I can give you some imputs.
1) you have done a great job.
2) your choice of colors is perfect.
3) your pages are to big.
4) your viewers will probably be somebody that has the computer on mostly for business, so on your screen put your favorites up, and this will be probably how viewers are looking at your page.It is great if they they do not have to scroll all the time.
5)Your services page, put an hyperlink with the text, ex: agricolture

Sorry, I was writing and click on the wrong thing, let me continue : agricolture.
I like the text to be the navigation menu, but I think your choice of menu bar is good.
About the size of the page, if you make it smaller, the page will look more professional.
Danielle, these are just my ideas, I said before you have started very well.
Ciao
Alas

Hi Danielle,

So sorry for your loss, I have a site too dedicated to my daughter, grandson and my dad. If you would like a candle lit for your son I would be happy to do that for you. Here is the site: www.memoriesofangels.com

Hi Danielle,
is me again, I just looked at your other site.
I just want to tell that I am really sorry for your loss.
Alas

Originally Posted by SChajin

Hi Danielle,

So sorry for your loss, I have a site too dedicated to my daughter, grandson and my dad. If you would like a candle lit for your son I would be happy to do that for you. Here is the site: www.memoriesofangels.com

Thank you Sharon. Yes...please light a candle for our son Vincent. And I too am sorry for your loss. Great site dedicated to them.

Danielle
www.vincentvonfrankenberg.com
www.wilsonpaves.com

Originally Posted by alas

Hi Danielle,
is me again, I just looked at your other site.
I just want to tell that I am really sorry for your loss.
Alas

Alas,

Thank you. And thank you for your suggestions. I really do appriciate them.

Danielle
www.vincentvonfrankenberg.com
www.wilsonpaves.com