Case Study - My experiences with WB

[brownj]

Hi everyone!

I am currently working on my first WB website. Its going to be a personal website just with a few thoughts and things. When I started the project, I just wanted to test my design skills after a two year break of making websites. Its been a struggle so far, but I am just starting to get to grips with WB and CSS, which is great!

My intentions for this thread is to provide a case study of someone quite new to CMS, and the problems I have incurred and how I dealt with them.

I have found the template tutorial very useful, and I think there will be a few things I can add to it after I have finally completed this. Just so you know, I almost gave up four weeks ago thinking I couldnt do it, but I am glad I kept going: its not as hard as it seems. And I want to show other newbies, like me, that it is possible.

my website can be found at http://www.brownj.co.uk/wb/

Best,

Jez

[brownj]

What I am currently working on:

- Cleaning my room!
- Changing the menu with CSS, using Listomatic tutorial.
- Working out the bug that means the "home" button doesnt appear until you roll over it. (any help appreciated)
- Cleaning up the CSS
- Installing modules.

[brownj]

What I am currently working on:

- Cleaning my room!
- Changing the menu with CSS, using Listomatic tutorial.
- Working out the bug that means the "home" button doesnt appear until you roll over it. (any help appreciated)
- Cleaning up the CSS
- Installing modules.

Still getting used to CSS, but its a damn powerful tool.

Tell me what you think of my site? http://www.brownj.co.uk/wb/

Any suggestions on improvements would be welcomed. I know the top image is too big, but I like the picture and now I guess it will have to stay.

I will make the lil buttons do something when I add the proper content.

This is a great community you have here. I have been reading Klaus' comments , you are a clever and creative person!

What I have left to do is add the correct content; add a WB link; make a second menu; add some jazzy fun things; and add a redirect page to my index.

http://www.brownj.co.uk/wb/

[kweitzel]

it looks quite nice, but imagesize does matter ... I called the page and waited for 10 sec and then left ... wrote a little post (about 100 words) and came back. Under normal circumstances I wouldn't have come back to actually look at the page because initial loading time would have been to long.

Then after seeing the code I realised it took some time to preload the images ... and that is not so good.

Have a look into the option of "Source Ordered Layouts", where the content is loaded first and then design is applied.

keep on the nice work, cheers

Klaus

[brownj]

I see, thanks for the advice. I dont know what source ordered layouts are, but I will take a look on google.

Are you on dial-up? 10 secs is too long. I think I need to work to change this.

[brownj]

Just wondering if anyone knows? What is generally better in design terms:

Smaller images but more of them; or
Larger images but less of them?

[kweitzel]

I am actually on 2 MBit DSL ... and personally I prefer more small pics ...

For the source ordered stuff check out the Pagemaker on www.positioniseverything.net ... the code forst looks very overloaded, but you'll get quickly used to it. And it is good for 95% of all browsers.

cheers

Klaus

[brownj]

Thanks for your help Klaus. 

[dbfcs]

Tried to view but it reports a php error

[kweitzel]

What do you mean?

[ruebenwurzel]

@klaus

he tryed to use this link from the first thread

http://www.brownj.co.uk/wb/

Matthias

[kweitzel]

  stupid me ... of cause I should have just clicked all the links

cheers

Klaus

[marccouture]

This is what I get when I try to check out the page:

Warning: main(/nfs1/brownj.co.uk/www/wb/config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /nfs1/brownj.co.uk/www/wb/index.php on line 29

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '/nfs1/brownj.co.uk/www/wb/config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /nfs1/brownj.co.uk/www/wb/index.php on line 29