Can Someone Help Me Out? - Im a bit confused

AmandaB78

Nov 17 2005, 10:57 PM

Hey everyone I was just wondering if you could check out some of my site and tell me if the links in my jewelry section work. If they don't work someone let me know. If they do work I was also wondering if you all could tell me what you think about my jewelry. If they aren't working could you guys come back when they are working (when i fix them) and tell me what you think. I love to make jewelry and clothes and other things. Even if your a guy , I would definitly love some feedback. Thanks ya'll!

One more thing, I can't change the color of the links and its driving me crazy. Is it possible?

http://www.amandab.trap17.com/AKJD.html

Plenoptic

Nov 17 2005, 11:08 PM

Yes your links are working. The jewlerey looks nice. SHINY lol Did you make them or do you run a company that makes them or are those store bought or professionally made? Well anyway, for your link problem, yes there is a way you can change it. Here is an example code for changing the link color.

CODE

<a href="http://www.blahblah.com" link="#FF00FF" vlink="#660066" alink="#FF0000">Click Me</a>

The link="" means the color of the link on your page by itself so it would change the blue to whatever color you would like. The vlink is used for what color your link changes to once the person has click on it and visited that page. If you don't want it to change keep it the same as the link. The alink is if you want the link color to change as soon as someone clicks on it to show it is active. This is optional just like the vlink.

jlhaslip

Nov 18 2005, 01:28 AM

If you want to modify the page so that ALL of the links on the page are changed to the same color, here is the code you need to place in the "head" section of your page, between the <head> tags. (check to make sure the ending </head> tag is there. I don't remember seeing it.)

You must include it in all pages if you want all pages to show these colors.

CODE

By changing the "color: #xxxxxx;" to different Hex values, you can choose the colours you like best.

If you need help figuring out the hex values for colours, post here and someone will help you.

Chameleon

Nov 18 2005, 02:13 PM

Doing a search for CSS tutorials on google.com would probably be beneficial to you; using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) you can set how your site displays text or images on your site.

Some basics to get you started:

1) Make a new *.css file where you can store all of the Style changes you want to call on in your site
2) On every page that you want to use the Styles include

CODE

in the <head> of the file
3) Add the Styles you want to use in the *.css file
(* replace the asterisk with a filename)

Hope this was helpful.

(A good tutorial for beginners CSS Tutorial

Chameleon

Nov 18 2005, 02:18 PM

Also, AmandasEarings and AmandasBracelets don't show up for me (they aren't saved as .html files)

FLaKes

Nov 18 2005, 08:54 PM

I think you should do something about the pictures, the Kates bracelet page takes forever to load. You should compress the pictures more. They weigh like 200 kb each. For their size I think they should weigh about 40 to 50 kb max. And amandas earings and bracelet section doesnt show up for me either, they appear as html code.

moogie

Nov 18 2005, 09:03 PM

Well I can see all your pages and the links all work ok for me. But your images need to be optimized more so the pages load faster.

Potential customers may decide to leave instead of shopping because they don't want to wait for the pages to load.

Nice jewellry though! Good luck with your web!

jlhaslip

Nov 18 2005, 10:11 PM

There is a free download available here that might be useful. It is a thumbnail creator, but would very likely fill your needs.
If you input an image name, and tell it a size, it will make a smaller, lighter weight version of the image and store it as a new file name which has the same name as the original but with a prefix of "tn" added so you can easily identify the pcture.
Or, another more versatile Image handling program is "Irfanview". (google is your friend) It includes a thumbnail creator, but does many other things as well.
I definately think you could improve the site by using the thumbnail sizes and making it load faster.
Another way is to have several pages with less pictures on it. Maybe sort the bracelets by colour?
Let us know if any of these ideas work for you. and if you need any more assistance, just ask here.

AmandaB78

Dec 3 2005, 04:34 PM

Thanks everyone for your feedback. All of you definitley helped. I download the easy thumbnail program and also recognized that in some browsers my images don't show up. Not only that but some pages were simply not saved as an html document.

Also my jewelry is made by me. Pictures are taken by my also. I make alot of jewelry in my spare time. Also i was looking for someone to critique me on how the jewelry looks and also maybe explain to me the purpose and use of an FTP manager. I just got a job at a computer store designing some of their website which is based off an ftp manager. I just would like to know the basics on FTP.

One other thing I need a little help with is basic submit buttons and how to get them to work properly. I want to make an area like forums where people can say what they think of my jewelry and it will autmoatically be put on the page. Can some help with that???

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