bumpyride
(regular)
Sat Oct 29 2005 01:31 PM
Re: My first web site.

Hi,

it's a nice site - it's nice to see a site which feels very personal, and which has lots of interesting content on.

I have a few suggestions which might improve things a bit.

1. The images on the right, contained in this page:

http://www.redvfr.plus.com/html/right_defaultmasterborder.html

Don't seem to add a lot to things, and might be a bit confusing because I thought they were links, and tried to click on them.

If you got rid of the above page, and had this page as your homepage instead:

http://www.redvfr.plus.com/html/body_my_partner__tina.html

(i.e. rename it to "index.htm" or whatever your home / index page is called)

Then you would have no frames at all, which is even better!

2. There are lots of interesting photos on the site, but the way you have displayed them makes them look squashed or distorted, and a bit grainy.

This is why:

The html to display an image is like this:

<IMG ID="Picture83" HEIGHT=244 WIDTH=271 SRC="../assets/images/two_bikes_fmws.jpg" BORDER=3 ALT="">

The height and width are determined by the height and width attributes in the above snippet of html.

But, the photo as it appears on this page:

http://www.redvfr.plus.com/html/body_photo_gallery_1.html

looks squashed, as though the bikes are too tall.

That's because the "real" size of the photo is 448 pixel wide by 336 pixels high.

Looking at the photo direct, without the html around it, you get this:

http://www.redvfr.plus.com/assets/images/two_bikes_fmws.jpg

which looks a lot more sensible.

So, what you could do, is change your html to this:

<IMG ID="Picture83" HEIGHT=336 WIDTH=448 SRC="../assets/images/two_bikes_fmws.jpg" BORDER=3 ALT="">

and then it would look correct on the web page.

Alternatively, you could resize the image in an image editing application like the gimp (http://www.gimp.org/). By doing this, you can resize the photo to be the size you want it, and it would also shrink the photo in the correct proportions.

For example, if you opened the above image in something like photoshop or similar, you could go to Image > Resize > Resize Image and set the width to be 271 (as in your html) and the program works out that if the photo is to still remain in proportion, the height would need to be 203 pixels. And then your photo would look much better.

e.g. this is the same one resized correctly:

http://jimpix.co.uk/images/wu/2bikes.jpg

All the best - it is a nice site - well done!

Jim


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