hi

I am only at this website building buisness 7 weeks and Im fairly sure I am doing it all backwards! the cart before the horse and all, but I am enjoying it.

I know it very early stages and to be honest I am not expecting much but if anyone wants to take a look that would be great! I would genuinely appreciate any good or bad feedback

thanks!

Id love check it out, what's the website? Or how would you want me to view it?

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Lellieis1

I dont know how to tell you because I know I cant post the address here. I think it is in my profile?

I really like the layout and content of the website, as I do not have children I have no use for the website right now. I am viewing it on my phone and it has nice content, keep up the good work and let's see what other babblers that have children say about the site.

Congratz on the site and again, keep up the good work!

Edit: what services do you use for your domain and hosting for your site?

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Lellieis1

thank you for the feedback

I bought my domain from novara.ie and the host is host.ie. They are irish which is why i picked them, I am using a basic windows hosting package and I am making my website with dreamweaver 4

Thats about as much as I know about them, sorry thats probably not very helpful.

I know exactly how you feel. I did it all backwards and I even went against some of the great advise but ya live and learn.

I like the site and will definitely be a repeated visitor, I got a 4yr old, a 1yr old, and one on the way so you may have just found your number one visitor. lol...no seriously...

Wishin ya well

check out the sig

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I just realized your from Ireland, My late grandmother was from Ireland and my Mom speak with an accent. Aye. This is great.

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aye I am,

actually I dont say aye

Your website looks great, I really like the layout and the blog is a great addition.

And wow you have your hands full! a 4 year old a 1 year old and one on the way!
well congratulations on the website and the next addition to your family
best of luck with it all

Hi Alana...actually, for the purposes of getting your site reviewed I believe you can post your website address in your post so that no one has to go searching for it. You can also add it in your sig file if need be. Best of luck.

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oh sorry I didnt realise that
thanks

ok its a site about planning childrens parties

www.thechildrenspartyplanner.com

thanks

Hi Alana,

Your first site is a lot better than my first site was.

Instead of over whelming you right out of the gate with a lot of terms, I will start with your site width. The standard is 800 x 600. On my lap top, I could not see your affiliate links on the right. I would also recommend that you use more color to make the site more attractive and fun. When people look for a child's party site, they are looking for fun.

I hope this helps.

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thanks

I have been struggling with the width because on my laptop it shows as too narrow?

I am using dreamweaver 4 and I have pretty much been teaching myself how to use it.

also I wanted to get more colour on the website and photos but I was unsure about photo royalties

thanks that helped a lot I will adjust the size and experiment with backgrounds and colours

Looks fine to me (aside from things already pointed out), although I did notice that the file size of the balloons image at the top right of the main page is HUGE. I resampled it to make the file size much smaller, but kept the dimensions the same, so you can grab a copy by going to:

Edited to remove link - file now downloaded...


Or rather, I resampled it to match the dimensions you have set for the main page. The dimensions of the version you are using now are 4014 x 2767, which is much larger than you need.

I am assuming that you are not displaying that image larger than 218 x 193 anywhere else on the site. If you are, you can rename this smaller version to something else for use on the main page, and keep the other large version for use elsewhere. Although you ought to resample it to fit the display size as it is absolutely massive.

Not sure if the link to the resampled version on my site will work but I'll try. If you download it, let me know and I'll remove it from my server.

hi

thank you
yes it worked I have it saved now.

A lot of the images I have for my site are big can you tell me what would be best to use to resize them myself please? can it be done in fireworks?

I use Corel X3 but that is licensed and not free, but a good free editor you could use is called Gimp. You'll find it at Gimp.org

Not sure about Fireforks as I've never used it...



Edit: whatever you do use, a good tip is to resample it to match EITHER the maximum width you want OR the maximum height you want, while maintaining the aspect ratio. That will ensure that the image doesn't distort out of shape. You can then resize the image by increasing either the height or the width, so that the dimensions are correct for use on your page.

Does that make sense? If not, let me clarify:

Say your image size is 420 x 340, and you were previously squeezing it into an area on your page of 320 x 250. The image will be out of shape because 420 x 340 does not naturally scale down to 320 x 250.

So in order to resample the image so it looks OK, you could first try resampling it to a width of 320 and allow the height to sort itself out (by setting it to maintain the aspect ratio). This would give you an image of dimensions: 320 x 259. But as you can see, the height has been set to 259, which is larger than the 250 you want it to be.

So undo that. Now resample it to a height of 250 and allow the width to sort itself out (by setting it to maintain the aspect ratio), and you get an image of dimensions: 309 x 250. The 250 is fine and the 309 is slightly less than you want.

But instead of fiddling with resampling to change the 309 into 320, you would OK that and you'd have an image of dimensions: 309 x 250.

Then, you would adjust the image size (paper size) by increasing the 309 to 320, without adjusting the height - leave that at 250. You then get an image with the dimensions you want, and it isn't all squashed out of shape.

Hope that hasn't confused you...

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