New website online, opinions please

slimtim · 22 September 2006, 19:52

After hours of learning css etc, I managed to knock up a new photography website. I'm afraid there aren't any RIB pics on there yet, but hopefully there will be soon and almost definately will be after the cruise next week.

Anyway, all opinions and suggestions are welcome. I have been told that the thumbnail galleries (navigate to events>rs k6 nationals) do not display properly in internet explorer. Please let me know how you see them, they should be in 5 columns and 4 rows. They seem to work fine in firefox. Does anyone know how I can fix this problem?

www.timstevensphoto.co.uk

Cheers!

Poly · 22 September 2006, 20:03

IE6 is displaying like this:

slimtim · 22 September 2006, 20:04

yeah it shouldn't be like that! Very frustrating...anyone know how I make it work with firefox and ie?

Jimbo · 22 September 2006, 20:34

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Originally Posted by slimtim

yeah it shouldn't be like that! Very frustrating...anyone know how I make it work with firefox and ie?

Tim, I'm manic with the boat show and such at the moment, but I will have a look as soon as I can for you and try and fix it! Looks nice though!

Jimbo

Richard B · 22 September 2006, 22:17

The photos that you've chosen for the "home" page and the "portfolio" page are superb, very, very nice work indeed Tim.

slimtim · 23 September 2006, 00:00

Jimbo, that would be great, thanks!

Richard, thanks for the kind words. I'm going to get the portfolio section done soon so hopefully more spangly images to look at.

tcwozere · 23 September 2006, 00:18

Cracking piccy's Tim..

IE7 is like this.. (Only visible prob, is that the text is being cut off for the portrait ones on the bottom row..)

codprawn · 23 September 2006, 01:48

Looks great to me but remember - most people use a bit more than 640x480 these days - on my 19" monitor there is loads of wasted screen.

Just noticed the 2006 RS K6 Nationals page with the thumbnails is perfect - it's just the main pages come up 1/4 screen.

I have tried it in Firefox and IE and it looks the same so very well done there!!!

benc · 23 September 2006, 07:30

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Originally Posted by Richard B

The photos that you've chosen for the "home" page and the "portfolio" page are superb, very, very nice work indeed Tim.

You couldn't have seen the contact page then! else you'd have mentioned that!

Very nice work tim!

benc · 23 September 2006, 07:50

Tim,

Just been looking at the css issue.

I think its down to IE and Firefox treating things like the "padding" and/or "margin" paremeters differently. I think one of them puts them inside the "width" you specify, and one outside.

I have had a play with the stylesheet, and found if you set the "thumbnail" class as follows, it looks fine in both browsers...

Code:

 
.thumbnail {
PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; FLOAT: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN: 15px 19px; WIDTH: 122px; PADDING-TOP: 10px; HEIGHT: 130px; TEXT-ALIGN: center
}

Basically, before you had the "width" set to the same width as the image width, and then I think IE was adding the padding/margin to the inside of the divs...

Not 100% sure of the ins and outs, but the fix I've done seems to work for both browsers!

Andy Moore · 23 September 2006, 10:45

Looks fine in Safari.

pop · 23 September 2006, 10:48

website is great i love the pic of the pier and light

is that totland do you send photos to any country?

just done my new web would like to see what you all think good and bad www.waterfronthomes.co.nz

benc · 23 September 2006, 10:53

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Originally Posted by pop

just done my new web would like to see what you all think good and bad www.waterfronthomes.co.nz

Site looks good, although seemed very slow loading

Might just be time of day/load on server... Other sites seem to load quickly for me..

pop · 23 September 2006, 11:47

thanks ben how can i get it to load up faster?

slimtim · 23 September 2006, 18:39

Thanks for the responses chaps.

Codders...I actually meant to have it that size (honest!) cos I think it looks neater and compact rather than being stretched across the whole page, doesn't really need to be any bigger does it? Thanks for the feedback though, all suggestions are welcome!

Ben, thanks very much for that. My first go at it with your code put my thumbs in 4 columns, whereas I want 5 columns. They were also over to the left and not centred. I'm going to have a play about with the cell padding etc now...

Pop, no its yarmouth pier taken from below Gossips! I will deliver prints anywhere. If you're interested, keep checking the site because I will be added more images soon. Your site looks great, the houses look even better!

pop · 23 September 2006, 18:42

ok mate ill keep looking i really wanted some nice shots of the island for NZ.

Ps the houses are for sale if you want one?

Hightower · 23 September 2006, 18:50

Very nice site Tim. However I can save photo's to MY PICTURES, so you might want to copywrite them to prevent this happening in the future.

A

from me.

slimtim · 24 September 2006, 22:19

thanks andy! Not too bothered about being able to "save as". all the files are real small so can't do a lot with them. Some times its refreshing not to have copyright text splashed all over the images.

I have now added a new whatsit thingy to the front page so the images changes. Using Ben's code I have also got the thumbnails to display properly in IE (thanks ben!) although i have 4 columns that are shifted over to the left and not 5 centred columns!

benc · 24 September 2006, 22:39

Tim, you have a PM

slimtim · 26 September 2006, 21:02

thanks for that Ben, had a quick play and it seems to work however I have a missing 1px border on the right on some of the pages.

Just uploaded another gallery of Cowes P1 Powerboat pics.