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mathetos:
Seriously great and detailed site. I like several aspects:

1) Your calendar. That's not one of the WB Event calendars, or is it?
2) The different content boxes and side bars are nice and well integrated. Are each of those boxes in the middle column a unique content area, or is it one content call with a lot of customized code?
3) The CSS is cleaner on your WB site than the static site.

Couple suggestions:
1) Your navigation logic is clearer on your static site. I couldn't really figure out where I was (contexually) when I clicked the horizontal menu in relation with the vertical menu. The vertical menu alone is more logical than the hor. but putting them together just seemed confusing. I didn't dig into your code to see what you used on your static menu, but I'm sure you could almost exactly emulate your static menu with WB and show_menu2.

2) I like the black background and shadowing on the static page better.

3) I would extend the cloud graphic from the banner to the footer as well for a bit of consistency and "completion."

Overall, I'm really impressed. It makes me want to do more myself.

~mathetos~

jollylama:
Hi Mathetos,

Thanks for taking the time to look at my site and for your great suggestions.

The calendar is not WB. It's created by 'easy PHP Calendar'. It's 20 bucks and very easy to install and modify. You have the option to run it with or without MYSQL.

I think they might have a free version..
http://www.easyphpcalendar.com/index.php

When complete the homepage will accomodate different content boxes feeding in separate page id's. It will be dynamic. If you visit:

http://menifeelive.com/wb/pages/front-porch.php

You can see the dynamic version. I still need to write the css and such, but you get the idea.. I found a thread somewhere on the WB forum on how to feed any news 'anywhere'.. it's a really great script.

http://forum.WebsiteBaker.org/index.php/topic,409.0.html

The side bar on the right is all graphics I created with hard links..

As for the navigation.. I'm not sure i like any of them.. I'm still working out the sections and section names. I have alot of articles and photo galleries and just trying to sort them all out at this point. Once I figure out the site structure (which I should have done at the start) I can concentrate on the nav.

As for the black background.. Originally the WB version was black and very loud, and like the black myself because it makes it look more dramatic. However, my demographics for this site oddly enough leans towards families, stay at home moms and the 35-55 female category. I thought i'd try to use softer colors for the new WB version.

Thanks again for looking.

jollylama:
Hi,

This is kind of directed to Klaus or anybody else who knows the best way to handle this. Basically, I'm wondering how to add image upload funtionality to the guestbook and turn it into a sort of a mini classifieds or a more visual announcements. If people want to show off their baby pictures in the guestbook and add an image. I want to avoid them having to register to do this. I currently don't have user log-in enabled on the site.


--- Quote ---it is really a nice site! BTW ... the upload ability exists ... give your users the right to upload to the media directoy ... they can upload any file there that you allow them to upload ... or take the download gallery together which comes with userupload as well ...

cheers

Klaus
--- End quote ---

Hope this makes sense.. Does anybody know how to do this? and is the correct place to have this discussion?

thanks

ben

kweitzel:
try implementing this here: http://forum.WebsiteBaker.org/index.php/topic,4430.0.html

It will need to go into the view(.)php of the guestbook (I think ...).
cheers

Klaus

Akumaownz:
http://menifeelive.com/

that's a wicked example of what wb can pull off

good work!

I am surprised you left the wb in the url hee hee

nice

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