Thread: Website for my brothers business

www.appearanceawning.com

The first problem was the hyperlinks across the top would show the incorrect wording ie:"Home" instead of "Marine". What caused that was me copying shapes instead of making a new shape for each hyperlink. >P

You are still publishing your pages as PHP when you have been advised to revert back to publishing them normally as HTML due to the new coding of BV12 and how the WC3 compliance affects the rendering of pages in browsers and directly with regard to positioning of items within the BlueVoda page.

Your pages are off-center, suggesting that the page borders are not fully flush-left to the BV Workpane page rules before selecting "Center pages horizontally in browser" in Page Properties: your page must be "locked top-left" within the Workpane at all times in order to properly configure page size and page layout ratios.

The image gallery on each page could have been configured differently for a better presentation overall, by using larger thumbnails that would be more "inviting" to visitors to click on, or, you could have used LightBox instead and simply arranged larger thumbnails in a more balanced, attractive layout that would compliment the page. In any event, the image display should not vary in style, position, or layout so much page-to-page, for when it does as on this site, it gives a much less organized and professional appearance.
Personally, I would have used much larger images altogether (chosen according to Category for each page, of course), and displayed them in a "Slideshow" effect much more prominently on the page by using the Ad Banner Rotator. Nothing replaces the visual appeal aspect, and communicating your experience and expertise by showing off your work in a prominent and professional method such as a Slideshow ... especially when there is so limited actual page content.

A very good first effort that another round of attention to layout and unified organization of "flow" and visual appeal will improve greatly -- once you simply follow the mandate to publish your pages as HTML rather than PHP!
You should have been following all the threads in the Forums discussing this issue (like this short one), and how there is no way around it now that BV12 is WC3 compliant and the Net is becoming so much stricter on code being compliant to provide a standard the browsers must conform to ....

I just don't know how to do what you say I need to do. I've tried to run it with all the hyperlinks (for example www.appearanceawning.com/marine.php) with the.php replaced with .htm, .html and with nothing at all. It doesn't run with anything other than .php. I'm sorry. I am not doing it this way because I think I know more than you about website building.
Please, give me an idea how those hyperlinks should look because I'm just not getting it.

Thank you for trying to help.

I should add that when I publish each page, I am thinking I am publishing say, marine.bvp. Have I left out a step?

Originally Posted by CanvasMan

I just don't know how to do what you say I need to do. Please, give me an idea how those hyperlinks should look because I'm just not getting it. Thank you for trying to help.

FIRST, delete the PHP pages from the server using BlueFTP, so they don't create page conflicts when you re-publish them as HTML.

Right-click on a blank area of your pages to reveal PAGE PROPERTIES, and change selection of "File Extension" from PHP to HTML.

* Be sure before you make changes to your navigation, changing things from "php" to ".html" as well, so they work when you need them to. For example, your links should look like this when corrected: http://www.appearanceawning.com/marine.html

SAVE your pages to your BlueVoda folder, over-writing the previously Saved PHP pages.

PUBLISH your pages (as HTML).

Thank you! I'll get on that first thing in the morning.

There is no problem using PHP pages !

What I said (in other thread) is that BV 12 will create issues with the PHP include method, used in "Single Menu page with BV and PHP", not generally with PHP.

This is because the way CSS is added in BV 12 pages, will cause conflicts between the main page CSS and the included page ( s ) CSS.

So this actually is not caused to the way the page is published ( .html or .php) but to the way css is embedded in the page with the latest BV version.

The horizontal bars below the logo are as far to the left as I can get them and everything else is placed in reference to them.

I just checked an I have been using Lightbox. I played with it a little and figured out how to make the thumbnails bigger.

Thanks

Bob

Originally Posted by Vasili

Your pages are off-center, suggesting that the page borders are not fully flush-left to the BV Workpane page rules before selecting "Center pages horizontally in browser" in Page Properties: your page must be "locked top-left" within the Workpane at all times in order to properly configure page size and page layout ratios.

The image gallery on each page could have been configured differently for a better presentation overall, by using larger thumbnails that would be more "inviting" to visitors to click on, or, you could have used LightBox instead and simply arranged larger thumbnails in a more balanced, attractive layout that would compliment the page. In any event, the image display should not vary in style, position, or layout so much page-to-page, for when it does as on this site, it gives a much less organized and professional appearance.
Personally, I would have used much larger images altogether (chosen according to Category for each page, of course), and displayed them in a "Slideshow" effect much more prominently on the page by using the Ad Banner Rotator. Nothing replaces the visual appeal aspect, and communicating your experience and expertise by showing off your work in a prominent and professional method such as a Slideshow ... especially when there is so limited actual page content

I suppose you made them bigger, but I don't see much change, sorry! The pages still look basic, undeveloped, and unbalanced to me.

I still would seriously consider using them in a larger size (maybe 400w x 267h??) as a "slideshow" effect using the Ad Banner Rotator, though, seeing as how you have so little page Content. Even the small details like crafting the image Titles specifically for the page using Key Words will help compensate for a lack of Content for SEO considerations. Maybe changing the Header image to an unchanging one that can become more an Icon for you business to better allow the larger Ad Banner Rotator "Slideshow" in the body of the page to be the only "moving" thing would look the best?

The bottom line is that I do not see how you are missing the Key Concepts such as having enough properly composed Content on the pages to satisfy the "relevancy" aspect the Search Engines are requiring as they evaluate each page, and how you see or don't see the overall visual balance of the page with regard to layout and normal expectations.

Sure, you can do whatever you want, but isn't the whole purpose of having a website to please potential visitors while trying to present the best first impression you can and hoping to elevate the chances of people finding your site by "scoring" minimal values with the Search Engines so you can earn respectable Position based upon that Relevancy? Right now, your pages (and site) does not demonstrate much 'compliance' for consideration in that regard at all ... and we haven't even mentioned developing META!