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Old 23rd May 2007, 11:06 AM   #8 (permalink)
TimMB
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Originally Posted by Adam View Post
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I like it. I'm one for clear simple layouts! Perhaps you could do with filling the space out a bit more on the contact page? The form looks very squashed to the left. I would also make the "Work Request" box bigger as you will very quickly not be able to see what you have typed.

For example (dashes represent boxes):

First Name : Last Name:
----------------------------- ----------------------------
Address:
----------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------
Postcode :
----------------------------
Home Tel: Work Tel:
---------------------------- ----------------------------
Work Request:
----------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------
Email:
----------------------------------------------------------------


Don't seem to be able to use tabs but hopefully you get what I mean.
Hi Adam,

Many thanks, I have re-arranged the forms in the quote page, much appreciated, I have also enlarged the Work Request text box as you're right, it needs to be bigger. I do need to add more information in the Information page, just need some inspiration! It'll come.

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Originally Posted by desquinn View Post
nice site. email link on Information page is mangled at the moment
Many thanks, all sorted!

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Originally Posted by corenominal View Post
Nice clean site and appealing to the eye.

I noticed that the email link on the information page needs correcting with a "mailto:" link - however it's probably not a good idea to publicise email addresses as spambots will pick them up. You could use the following tool to encrypt the email address, it's fairly straightforward to use:

Hivelogic: Enkoder Web Form
You're right that was lazy of me and I bit carless, though I haven't heard of using Javascript to encrypt an email address. I've used your suggestion. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by TygerTyger View Post
I would say for a first site it shows excellent understanding of the fundamentals. Good stuff.
Thank yoy Tyger, means a lot!

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Originally Posted by Terra View Post
I'd advise to run your site through an HTML validator as it throws up a few errors:
Result for http://www.chipsawayclevedon.co.uk/ - W3C Markup Validator
Result for http://www.chipsawayclevedon.co.uk/quote.php - W3C Markup Validator
Result for http://www.chipsawayclevedon.co.uk/information.php - W3C Markup Validator

Most of the errors seem to do with out deprecated HTML code and missing alt tags. Once you sort out the validation & HTML code problems, the site should work just fine. You may also want to consider adding meta information to the site for search engines.

All the best - Edith
Ah, that was a little embarrassing, laziness again there I think. I have cleaned up most of my code using that, really does help because you miss some silly things out. I must say as I use a WYSIWYG editor which can cause sloppy html, though I don't use it due to lack of html knowledge but simpy to spped things up. <- There goes me being lazy again.

Meta information, totally slipped my mind thanks for that!

I really appreciate everyone's comments, sgguestions and feedback. Has really tidied the site up and given me more confidence! Thanks again.
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