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emailuser
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www.johnstonetown.co.uk
I brought this website online tonight & apart from minor testing and tweaking stuff its pretty much finished .
Local websites for small towns are usually quite limited as there is only so much you can write about or take photos of if its small town .
Instead of installing a pre written script i wrote a custom php script for the JT website as i wanted to give it a certain look & to be able to do certain things .
There are 5 different ways the user can search for local links .
1 - a-z search
2 - catagory search
3 - town/village search
4 - (search button) limited specific town/village search
5 - (search button) the standard text box search
I kept the 'submit url' page clean and simple & the image code should prevent spam .
Either way , I reckon some newish type of users will find it a bit confusing at first but what the hell its done now :-)
Good or bad (honest) comments invited .
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emailuser
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No comments one way or the other - is that a good or bad thing :-)
http://www.johnstonetown.co.uk/chatroom.php
I started writing a php chatroom script the other day and the basic chatroom functions are now up and running and the chatroom works fine .
Unlike the usual chatroom stuff theres no need to register or anything - as that sort of thing is something i've always hated myself .
The script wasnt without its individual problems though as i had to use <iframe> and a little javascript to achieve the effect and to get it want i wanted it to do .
<iframe> was needed as the page refreshes every 15 seconds and if you where halfway through typing in a line of text it would be lost if the whole page refreshed , So <iframe> fixed the problem as its now only the 'big chat' window that gets refreshed every 15 seconds .
Javascript was needed so the cursor would be automaticly placed in the text entry box after you typed a line of text and pressed the return key to submit/enter it , Without the javascript code the user need to manually put the cursor into the text entry box manually by moving the mouse pointer over the text entry box and clicking the left mouse button , Yes it was a real pain and not very good to use .
The obvious problem with javascript is that some users disable it in their browsers as its a possbile security issue & like some other web designers i only use javascript as a last resort and only when theres no other option easily available .
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smn2
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Reg'd: Mon
Posts: 24
Loc: Holmfirth
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Hi
Erm, I think you've done a good job and I love
the easy way you can get at the information
(in several ways).
However, I would say that the layout is probably more
suited to a webmaster-site than a site that's a local
guide. I think visitors might expect a softer
look. For example, I helped design this local guide
to Chipping Campden
- http://www.chipping-campden.net
Now I think there's less info on this site than yours,
but there are more content pages and it features
local images to make people feel at home.
So I'd be inclined to write a few static pages of
content about Johnstone Town, and maybe put your
home page onto a search.html page (linked to via a
More Search Options link), and 'soften' your home
page with some content and perhaps the most popular
searches preconfigured or something (or just
a Google search box - if it works for them, it
might work for you!).
Of course I could be completely wrong! Lol
Steve
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