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Title: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Jimbob on 22 September 2010, 13:30:14
The disability / singing /dancing group my other half is involved with approached me to design them a website.

Never having touched HTML before, I took it as a nice learning opportunity.

Been interesting and frustrating as hell at times, but have finally got it up and running.

http://buzz-ah.co.uk
seems to take some time before http://www.buzz-ah.co.uk becomes visible too, but am assured it may take up to 48 hours.

I quite happy with it for a 1st attempt, and have enjoyed doing it.  Just needs publishing to the group now so it can become known, and then hopefully start getting into search engine results etc.

Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Entwood on 22 September 2010, 13:32:57
Works ok for me .. nice and readable as well  :y :y :y :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Jimbob on 22 September 2010, 13:34:55
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Works ok for me .. nice and readable as well  :y :y :y :y


Thanks, probably the main design point given some of the target audience.
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Chris_H on 22 September 2010, 13:38:45
Looks good on Firefox JB.

If you don't want too much spam you might like to look into using FormMail or similar to prevent your email address being scavenged by every merciless Tom, Dick and Harry.

You can also feed the search engines directly via certain sites.  Getting friendly existing sites to add links to yours speeds up the process as well.

Well done.
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Jimbob on 22 September 2010, 13:41:21
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Looks good on Firefox JB.

If you don't want too much spam you might like to look into using FormMail or similar to prevent your email address being scavenged by every merciless Tom, Dick and Harry.

Well done.


not a bad idea, hadn't considered that, will look into it  :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Welung666 on 22 September 2010, 13:43:59
Looks good JB :y I always tend to overthink them when I design a site and, therefore, over complicate them but that is just about right. :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 22 September 2010, 13:49:09
Congrats Mr JB.....looks like a  professional job to me... :y :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: PhilRich on 22 September 2010, 14:20:29
Excellent job Jimbob! The blue text especially makes for easy reading. Well laid out & easy to navigate around the site. :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 22 September 2010, 14:22:50
That site looks very good JB, and what makes is so is the ease of use along with the right font being used 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: unclelicklug on 22 September 2010, 14:26:32
Agree with all the above, keep thinking I'd like to try and build a website sometime.
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Dishevelled Den on 22 September 2010, 14:28:48
Well done Jb 8-) - the image gallery is particularly interesting. 

To see the look of excitement and joy on the faces of those participating is heart-warming and indeed humbling.

I've no doubt that your design will help publicize the important work the group is doing.

Not only you, but all those in Buzz-AH should be proud of what has been achieved here.
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Jimbob on 22 September 2010, 14:48:42
thanks all, can really recommend www.w3schools.com for anyone wanting to learn  :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Jimbob on 22 September 2010, 15:06:44
cheers for the email form idea - now implemented  :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 22 September 2010, 15:07:34
nice one.. clear and readable.. no need to fight for clicking microscobic links.. and does the job apparently..  :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Shackeng on 22 September 2010, 15:49:23
Very impressed JB, and good luck to the group who look as though they are doing a first class job. :y :y :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: beemerdevil on 22 September 2010, 15:55:51
indeed JB .... well done  :y looks good  :y :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: jerry on 22 September 2010, 15:58:50
well done jimbob, as others have said, easy to read and navigate :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Chris_H on 22 September 2010, 16:13:17
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cheers for the email form idea - now implemented  :y
Blimey that was quick!  Are you sure it works? ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Jimbob on 22 September 2010, 16:15:14
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cheers for the email form idea - now implemented  :y
Blimey that was quick!  Are you sure it works? ;D ;D ;D


yup, tested with my address before going live  :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Debs. on 22 September 2010, 16:46:04
 :y Very nice coding and well implemented style sheet; .....over-finicky Deb. spotted the 't' missing in Flintshire in the keywords when viewing the page source.
You might like to add a meta description in the head.....it might help with getting Googled. ;)
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Jimbob on 22 September 2010, 17:19:24
cheers Debs, thats what I call testing  :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: TheBoy on 22 September 2010, 17:57:51
Good job to JB :y

As the site grows, look into what technlogies your host offers, and look at server side includes or other dynamic-ish technologies.

Probably not worth the hassles/inflexibility of full blown CMS yet


Some search engines use metadata, Google doesn't (though does display it if it has one).
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Gaffers on 22 September 2010, 18:03:23
Looks good JB, first class and a noble cause :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Elite Pete on 22 September 2010, 18:22:28
Looks good JB :y

I could do with one doing if you have some spare time  ;)
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 22 September 2010, 22:45:09
Het's my vote, well done JB, easy to read and nicely laid out.   :y :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 23 September 2010, 06:08:57
Very good Jimbob  :y

Similar layout to a site i created a while ago.

Go here

http://www.google.com/webmasters/#utm_medium=et&utm_source=ww-en_uk-et-bizsol&utm_campaign=en

To submit sitemap to Googe and force it to start indexing your site  :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Jimbob on 23 September 2010, 08:07:11
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Very good Jimbob  :y

Similar layout to a site i created a while ago.

Go here

http://www.google.com/webmasters/#utm_medium=et&utm_source=ww-en_uk-et-bizsol&utm_campaign=en

To submit sitemap to Googe and force it to start indexing your site  :y


Cheers Dave, thats a handy link  :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Shackeng on 23 September 2010, 08:12:34
What a great forum this is for helping out on all issues!  :y :y :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Seth on 23 September 2010, 09:22:04
Nothing wrong with it Jimbob.
Take a pat on the back dear boy! :y :y :y :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Chris_H on 23 September 2010, 10:46:07
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Very good Jimbob  :y

Similar layout to a site i created a while ago.

Go here

http://www.google.com/webmasters/#utm_medium=et&utm_source=ww-en_uk-et-bizsol&utm_campaign=en

To submit sitemap to Googe and force it to start indexing your site  :y
Force Google??  You're 'aving a larfff mate.
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: robbo2345 on 23 September 2010, 11:00:55
 :y great job done JB looks fantastic always fancied doing one for myself but all semms too complicated for a dunce like me ;D still havn't worked out how to put an avatar up yet lol ! great job :) :y :y
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 23 September 2010, 11:01:21
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Very good Jimbob  :y

Similar layout to a site i created a while ago.

Go here

http://www.google.com/webmasters/#utm_medium=et&utm_source=ww-en_uk-et-bizsol&utm_campaign=en

To submit sitemap to Googe and force it to start indexing your site  :y
Force Google??  You're 'aving a larfff mate.

Well, as much as you can!.....If you wait for google to 'stumble' on your site, you could wait a while!
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: robbo2345 on 23 September 2010, 11:03:19
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:y great job done JB looks fantastic always fancied doing one for myself but all semms too complicated for a dunce like me ;D still havn't worked out how to put an avatar up yet lol ! great job :) :y :y


 :o :o cant even spell  ;D seems ! :-[
Title: Re: Finished designing my 1st website
Post by: TheBoy on 23 September 2010, 21:30:44
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Very good Jimbob  :y

Similar layout to a site i created a while ago.

Go here

http://www.google.com/webmasters/#utm_medium=et&utm_source=ww-en_uk-et-bizsol&utm_campaign=en

To submit sitemap to Googe and force it to start indexing your site  :y


Cheers Dave, thats a handy link  :y
Sitemap wont be needed for a simple, static site like that JB, though the webmaster tools are handy for seeing what searches are causing clickthroughs etc...