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[M Paul]

This is my first web site. I'd like to know if it works. It does on my computer. I've never tested the site on a Mac. I have the whole site in a folder for now to keep it from search engines--that's why there is a "/housechurch" on the address. I hope this is the correct procedure.

http://www.loveofchrist.info/housechurch/

Note a review on my techniques is all I request--not the actual content of the subject matter.

Thank you!!
Paul

[Rooster1865]

Here's a small suggestion. Keep your links a distinct color and dont' let non-links be that color lest they be mistaken for links. Your quotes look like links, I'd pick another color so you don't confuse potential users.

[M Paul]

Originally posted by Rooster1865
Here's a small suggestion. Keep your links a distinct color and dont' let non-links be that color lest they be mistaken for links. Your quotes look like links, I'd pick another color so you don't confuse potential users.

Thank you for responding. Your suggestion makes perfect sense to me. I should have realized it myself. I changed the quote font color to black in a test document, and it looks about the same or better, so I think I'll make the change before going on line.

In the articles, I have the navagation links in maroon, but also the name of the organization and copyright notice, just below the tittle, and the latter is not a link to anything. However, I think in the articles, I'm ok not changing the font color of the organization name and copyright notice.

Thank you again.
Paul

[whatever]

For your first website, I like what you have done.

[Nivorous]

I agree, nice job.

[M Paul]

Thank you for the confirmations. It wasn't that easy and it took me four months. I'm going to try to keep putting in significant time to learn more and more--but it is somewhat of a slow process.

I'm going to take the temporary file out now. The site will be at http://www.loveofchrist.info
if anyone else would like to make suggestions or comments.

Thanks again,

Paul

[baconhost]

I also agree that it's a fine job for the first one. Some suggestions I would like to make however. A footer menu of links on the bottom of every page that makes it easy for the user to get back home. I probably wouldn't open a new browser window for each of the links. I'd also use the domain name for email addresses.

Nice job overall.

[M Paul]

Originally posted by baconhost
A footer menu of links on the bottom of every page that makes it easy for the user to get back home. I probably wouldn't open a new browser window for each of the links. I'd also use the domain name for email addresses.

Thank you for the feed back. I had thought about footer links, but I couldn't make up my mind, and I decided I would wait for feed back on it. So, I just got some.

On the e-mail, I'm using an old address that I don't care about for now. I had heard to watch out for spam bots. I don't like form mail, as it is too impersonal and I like the address in plain view. I've seen other web sites with the address in view and I've heard reports from people with sites having the address in view using html with no problem. So, I decided to try it in html to see in reality what would happen. After awhile I'll probably change it, and using the domain name would be best I think.

Paul

[yugnats]

i think it looks good too! nice job for your first site

[M Paul]

Originally posted by yugnats
i think it looks good too! nice job for your first site

Thank you.

Now, for my second attempt -- would anyone like to suggest what I should concentrate on learning to improve past the novice stage. I suspect banner design, or graphics. Maybe, I should consider a more sophisticated home page layout using tables.

Paul

[baconhost]

On the e-mail, I'm using an old address that I don't care about for now. I had heard to watch out for spam bots.

This little bit of javascript code has helped out tremendously with email address links:

<!--
function clickmail(domain,mailto) {
var url = "mailto:" + mailto + "@" + domain;
self.location.href = url;
return;
}
//-->

Put it between the head tags. Then change your mailto links to something like this: <a href="javascript:clickmail('digihoster.com','info')"> - General information</a>

This example doesn't let you have the email address in plain site, however, you can create an image of you email address spelled out and replace "General Information" with the image.

There are a couple different ways of keeping the harvesters away from your email address, this one is by far the easiest. All it does is break up the email address into a form that isn't recognized as an address.

-Bill

[M Paul]

This little bit of javascript code has helped out tremendously with email address links:

I thought about using javascript. However, then I learned 10% of viewers disable their browser's javascript, which means the e-mail address would not be seen by them. I think that number is too high, for losing the possiblity of communication with them. I will be interested in seeing what happens with my e-mail address for now in html.

However, thanks for the suggestion.

Paul

[Hostex Australia]

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[M Paul]

I had the page in a temporary folder. Then I put it on line. It's at

http://www.loveofchrist.info

I can't edit the /housechurch from the initial message. Maybe, if an administator sees this message she/he would do it for me.

Paul

[RRWH]

A quck comment - I understand that you have put in a lot of effort, but one thing that you have done is actually very annoying!

You have all of your links set to open in a new window - Now, that is a bad thing, especially since on every page you have a link back to the main page, which is already open in another window.

A suggestion, All internal links within your site should (preferably) open in the same window, and only have external links open in a new window.

You do not have a footer/copyright notice on any of your pages - this is a highly recommended addition to all of your pages!

On the note of not displaying an email address - it is best not to otherwise you will soon get email for all sorts of uppers/downers/extensions/software ... As suggested, find a way to hide it! - use javascript as suggested, or simply create an image that has the email address on it - spiders cannot easily read an image file to harvest it. The best option is to use a PHP or cgi formmail type script (if of course you have PHP or cgi access)