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Horseman_D · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject: CTHP.org

Firstly, the site: cthp.org

Secondly, the chance to school a newbie. Wink

The above site was created in GoLive 5 (while trying to transition thinking over from DreamWeaver). After 2.5 years of uptime, I'm looking to redesign the site, whole cloth. Possibly even hand-code it like the big boys do.

For those willing, I'd love to get some feedback on things I've done right and wrong on the site. Additionally, here are my (basic) plans for the changes:

I'd also like to be able to update certain global page elements without having to push the change to every page individually (easy enough in GL5). This would typically be link images to pages of interest. Would CGI be a good bet, or is there something more preferable? I'm tempted to find a reason to incorporate XML just for the sake of learning it, too.

Think of this as a chance to mold a greenhorn into a proper webdev. Fill my head with all kinds of crazy ideas before I start forming opinions of my own. I'm interested to do some learning of new things in this process, so fire away.

Thanks in advance, all.
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Tim · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:15 am Post subject:

The link about the Pharmacy closing kind of hangs out there. And that would seem to be a news item to me, so why isn't it in the news and events box? Random quotes on the other hand are fine to have floating in the footer of the page and probably don't belong in news and events.

The navigation was a little confusing. At first I didn't realize the darker items would be clickable. Rather than making such a big difference in color I would probably make all of the nav the same color and just indent the items that fall under a main heard a little bit.

Horseman_D · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Tim. That's the kind of eyeballing that I need. *thumbs up*

Now that I have a better grasp on CSS, the navbar will be quite different.
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xarius · New Bee Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 2 Location: England

Unless you're going to send the MIME type as application/xhtml+xml there is not much point (as far as I know, I could be wrong) using XHTML. Which wouldn't be a problem, but as far as I know MSIE completely chokes when you send that MIME type for a webpage.

I could be totally wrong, and I am new here so please feel free to tell me if I am!
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