My website

[caz1963]

I have just finished building my site using website baker and a modified GT1 template. This is my first attempt at building a site using a cms and I would welcome feedback from people who understand these things... I am a graphic designer not a developer so any comments would be much appreciated

Thanks

Caroline

www.oakley-media.co.uk

[mr-fan]

hi,

nice header - clear navigation....

only thing for my oppinion is the to large latest news-block..... try it with a more adapted color/text or +a graphic and

only the short news...

on every page i never see the footer - this block enlarge the wohle page - the last latest news will never be read (to much scrolling -with withe maincontent on short sites)

regards martin

[caz1963]

Thank you - I agree about the news but am struggling to work out how to change this - doing it by trial and error at the moment!

Caroline

[mr-fan]

can you post the code of your php-call for the news (did you use the anynewssnippet??

[caz1963]

No it's just the way the news is set up on the template and I'm not sure which bit to change so it just show the latest news and not other posts from the site. The relevant bit of code I think is....

<div class="Last">
            <?php ob_start();     // start output buffer
            global $database;
            $query = "SELECT post_id,title,content_short,group_id,link FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."mod_news_posts ORDER BY position DESC LIMIT 0,3";
            $error = mysql_error();
            if (!$result = mysql_query($query)) {
                print "$error";
                exit;
            }
            while($data = mysql_fetch_object($result)){
                $title = $data->title;
                $id = $data->post_id;
                $link = $data->link;
                $short = $data->content_short;
                echo '<p><a href="'.WB_URL.'/pages/'.$link.PAGE_EXTENSION.'">'.$title.'</a><br />'.$short.'</p>';
            }
            $foo=ob_get_contents();    // put outputbuffer in $foo
            ob_end_clean();             // clear outputbuffer
            if ($foo<>"") {  // some code to execute cause there is some block
                echo '<h1>Latest News</h1>';
                echo $foo;
            } else { // some code for no info
                echo '<h1>No New News</h1>';
            }
            ?>
        </div>

[mr-fan]

ok no problem... you will get it qiuck and and have a better solution!

you shoult look at this codesnippet:
http://www.websitebakers.com/pages/code-snippets/listings/anynews.php

this is the ultimate anynewssnippet....
you can modify everything and can use this snippet in your template instead of this code

Code: [Select]

<?php ob_start();     // start output buffer
         global $database;
         $query = "SELECT post_id,title,content_short,group_id,link FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."mod_news_posts ORDER BY position DESC LIMIT 0,3";
         $error = mysql_error();
         if (!$result = mysql_query($query)) {
            print "$error";
            exit;
         }
         while($data = mysql_fetch_object($result)){
            $title = $data->title;
            $id = $data->post_id;
            $link = $data->link;
            $short = $data->content_short;
            echo &#39;<p><a href="&#39;.WB_URL.&#39;/pages/&#39;.$link.PAGE_EXTENSION.&#39;">&#39;.$title.&#39;</a><br />&#39;.$short.&#39;</p>&#39;;
         }
         $foo=ob_get_contents();    // put outputbuffer in $foo
         ob_end_clean();             // clear outputbuffer
         if ($foo<>"") {  // some code to execute cause there is some block
            echo &#39;<h1>Latest News</h1>&#39;;
            echo $foo;
         } else { // some code for no info
            echo &#39;<h1>No New News</h1>&#39;;
         }
         ?>use the # button next time...

install the module and replace with something like this...

Code: [Select]

<?php display_news_items(0, 5, 50, 2, 
  &#39;The latest news&#39;, &#39;show full news text&#39;, &#39;uups, no news available&#39;,
  true, &#39;<a><img>&#39;, true, &#39; (h:i, d.m.Y)&#39;, 1, 1); ?>

the setting of the snippet you can read there:

http://addons.WebsiteBaker.org/modules/anynews/help/help_en.html

you can set the newsgroup if you have some - or you can set the leght of the shortnews or if you don't like the short news you can set it up that you will get only the headers...

if you have different newsgroups (maby webdesign/print....) also you can play with the blogmenu (its a little modified anynewsnippet that shows up a newsgroup overview...)

this snippet you will find here:
http://www.websitebakers.com/pages/code-snippets/listings/blog-menu.php

so it's time to play if you have problems i will help!

regards martin

[albatros]

Hi,

the first thing I saw was "hgpgroup.jpg" (2592px × 3888px scaled to 100px × 150px, 428.29 KB). That's not really so very good looking.

Apart from that I like it very much.

Best regards

Uwe

[Argos]

Took a quick glance at it. Nice fresh design, clear layout. Nice job!

[caz1963]

Thank you all for your nice comments. Martin I will try out the news snippets and let you know how I get on. Thank you so much for your help! Much appreciated.

Caroline