Dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st C

[houtslager]

:shock: gawd , I have finally gone and done the deed
I am in the 21st C ie; with regard to this here tinternet
If people would take a peek, and see if there are any problems
I would appreciate it, also any serious tips / ideas to make it
better will be listened too.

Thanks for looking,

HS in a wet and very grey Germany :?

 

[WellsWood]

Sorry HS, but a peek at what exactly?

Mark

 

[nickson71]

website at a guess .............. a link maybe useful though


must have been kicking too much whilst being dragged into the 21st century

 

[Lord Nibbo]

Umm.... Broadband by any chance? Mind you he might of bought a fur lined jock strap, Chippy Norton must be the coldest place on the Cotswolds.

 

[houtslager]

(homer) :sign3: DOH ! :roll:




http://www.thewoodbutcher.eu

here you go folks

 

[Philly]

Love your Maloof chair, H!
Philly

 

[dedee]

HL,
I like the website and the items displayed are 1st class.

I am running a Mac with OS X and Safari and your About page is not displayed too well. The last 5 lines of your writen text overflow the box at the bottom and the lnks to your other pages are not working.

This may be a Mac/Safari problem so I'd wait and see what others have to say.

Andy
ps thanks for giving me the opportunity to learn how to do a screen capture on the mac :wink:

 

[WellsWood]

Beautiful pieces H, very impressive indeed.
If I had to criticise the site technically it would be that it seems to be optimised for a lower screen resolution than I use (1280x1024) consequently it all looked a bit small, particularly noticable when trying to read the script in "about me". Stunning design though, very classy.

Jealous
Mark

 

[beech1948]

H,
The about me page comes up very small and occupies only about 1/3 rd of my screen. Its hard to read.

The page which shows your portfolio of work looks great but when I click on each object to see it in detail another copy of the whole page is created instead of the object.

Nice overall design. Good use of white space.

regards

alan
PS Using IE6.0.2900

 

[houtslager]

Okay guys, how do I optimise the site for larger / better

screen resolution.

I am using a 12" screen I know its small but it still works so I
am not upgrading just yet.


ta much ,HS

 

[andrewm]

HL,
I like the website and the items displayed are 1st class.

I am running a Mac with OS X and Safari and your About page is not displayed too well. The last 5 lines of your writen text overflow the box at the bottom and the lnks to your other pages are not working.

This may be a Mac/Safari problem so I'd wait and see what others have to say.

Andy
ps thanks for giving me the opportunity to learn how to do a screen capture on the mac :wink:

Looks the same under Opera 9.0 on a PC.

Any more pictures of that all white kitchen? - Very trendy.

Andrew

 

[WellsWood]

Sorry HS, knoweyedear - just because I know whats wrong doesn't mean I know how to fix it. I guess you look in the help file of whatever program you used to make the website, assuming you did it yourself.

Looks gorgeous though.

 

[andrewm]

H,
The page which shows your portfolio of work looks great but when I click on each object to see it in detail another copy of the whole page is created instead of the object.

PS Using IE6.0.2900

Interesting because it works fine for me in Opera and also in IE 6.0.2900.

Andrew

 

[Scrit]

Umm.... Broadband by any chance? Mind you he might of bought a fur lined jock strap, Chippy Norton must be the coldest place on the Cotswolds.

Friesland is even colder........

BTW works for me K, (20in monitor/ 1280 x whatever). "Misceleneous" is spelled wrongly. should be "miscellaneous"

Scrit

 

[ByronBlack]

two things..

the first, the text is very small to read! I'm on a small screen on laptop and have to squint to read the text. Its set in a fixed format, your better going for a relative measurement i.e. instead of coding your text in pixel measurements, do it in either keywords (small, x-small etc..) or percentages - you can find out how to do this with various html websites.

The other thing, there is a descrepancy between texts, ie. on some pages it's a serif font (squirly) and other its sans-serif - it's better to keep it all sans-serif, easy to read on a monitor.

Otherwise, a nice design.

 

[filsgreen]

Sorry to be picky HS but Miscellaneous is spelt incorrectly Sorry Scrit, never read your post (homer)

 

[Roger]

Works well in Firefox, but the text on the Index Menu and a couple of the sub descriptions is too small and can't be increased.

The spelling of Miscellaneous has been mentioned and the phrase 'to be viable restored' in the Services section is not correct!

Mainly the text sizes need to be fixed, otherwise not bad at all

 

[tigerturnings]

Works well in Firefox

I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Linux and I've got the same "overflowing the boundary" effect of the text on the about page as deedee noticed.

I'd also agree with the others who have found some of the text to be a little too small.

One more thing I'd suggest - I'd prefer the large images of your work to open in a new window, but that's just personal preference and I'm sure that there are those who'd disagree with me on that one.

Aside from those technical issues, though, looks like a nice design and some very nice work too.

Cheers,

Neil

 

[houtslager]

many thanks guys, am working on a mk 4 version where all the text is the same, shame as the "written"font is my standard typeface

Oh, how does one insert a visitor counter on the site. That at the moment is beyond me, I'm sure it is summint simple

Hopefully if I remember how to edit the site, I should have it amended in a week.Busy making a massive multi media unit and have to deliver all by next weekend.

ta folks input wioll be acted on when I get a round tuit

 

[houtslager]

well I think its done, only I want to add a visitor counter to the home page.HOW does one do this sorry to ask a dumb Q but hey - I am a woodworker trying to get a grip on this modern stuff