Fishy site thoughts please
 

Time for a bit of a change.. Can you please have a look and test. Removing the side menu and replacing with a drop down. That gives us more space for the news items. more pics or better layour. Also some of the pages we had to drop adverts as we needed the width like on fixtures.. but not now ...


Tested on IE 6 and 7 and Firefox... It probably falls over wiht opera I dunno.. Appricate TM or whoever trying with a mac..

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Worked well for me KIPAX..loved the (for lack of techno mumbo jumbo) the revolving pictures.However,when finished there,I couldn't get back to website!!! ???
One unasscotiated question,,why are there so many excess chairs about?

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Just given it a quick go with Safari and Firefox on the Mac and it all seems to work ok. Only tried the drop-down menus and a few links from there, but everything seemed fine.

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Cheers guys...

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Would you believe I just went on it prior to this site to check the latest news and didn't notice it :eek:

Just checked it on Firefox and Opera and both seem to be OK

My league tables are a lot bigger now :)

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Cheers K .... and Kiwi thanks.. The virtual tour thing :) should have opend in a new window leaving the MB link and fishy site there.. which it now does... also the menu link to messageboard should ahve had the popup saying its going to external non official MB and it does now so all sorted ... ta :)

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Not your department, Tony, but the 'visiting fans' page contains the following:
'The three pubs closest to the ground are The Grey Horse, (5 mins walk away) and The Greyhound (5 Mins walk away)'.:confused:

The site looks much better with the changes.

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I think that page need re writing ... too many people allowed to edit it.. they take bits out not checking to se eif it impacts on others.. plus some comments are old so will get julie to give it a shake up :) I do the programming.. Julie does the content (that regulars dont do)

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Just a quick observation......

I went on the "sponsorship" page, & noticed that there isn't a link back to the home page.

In fact there doesn't seem to be one on any page.

:confused:

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the latest news link in scroll down menu acts as a return to the "home page"

Looks good kipax :)

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Clicking top of every menu item. or clicking on the big pick at top of page or selecting latest news..all will take you back.. but none obvious... So there probably should be a more obvious button... i will get that sorted... thanks :)

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The Nav bar its self looked better beforehand - and if you decide to keep it as it is now I would swap the rollover colours of the bar... at the moment it doesn't match the rest of the site until it is rolled over... it should be the otherway around so the majority fits in and the selected one is brighter.

You may also want to align the store sponsers pictures etc to the left as it is no longer centered.

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I am not a big fan of it myself.. But julie worked very hard on the menu. getting one thats cross browser as well as backward compat so I put it in... Thats why I started the thread.. I like the side menu..it makes the site look busier..But the top menu has other advantages and will be liked by other people.

But we have had the same site for a couple of years... great looking , works well... but same same same.. had to try a change eh?

I prefer the side menu... maybe a vote?

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Looks alright really, quite easy to navigate ! :D

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It looks good, Mr K. :thumbsup:

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Looks easy to navigate and professional, just could do with widening the column to full screen possibly? Go to site and hey presto, new shirts on as well.

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Not to bad, Easier to navigate round yeah like it!!:cool:

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Good job Mr & Mrs Kipax! Like it :D

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Looking good Mr K. Love it.

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In Firefox everything is over to the left of the screen leaving a big gap on the right, To be honest i prefered the sidebar menu.

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Looks perfect in my firefox

Can you see adverts down the right hand side?

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Yes there are adverts but after the page thats displayed (which is not centered its all to the left) there is a lot of the red bacground at the right side of the display, The page is roughly 3/4 the size in width of the screen and not centered.

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Isn't it always like that? :confused:

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Thats the way it supposed to look heheheh

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The site template is 700 pixels wide a similar size to the BBC news website. If your desktop resolution is 1024 x 768, then the site will only occupy 3/4 of your screen.
This is done to make the site compatable with 99% of computer monitors. If, for instance the template was set as a percentage of the window size, and the internet window was full screen, then the site would look very odd on different monitor resolutions.
My monitor for example is widescreen with a resolution of 1440 x 900 and the fishy site would be unusable to me if the template was say 90% - 100% of the window size. I have to use a half screen window for this message board, because in full screen the lines of text are too long, making me lose track.

I hope thats not too techy.

As it is, the site looks more professional and and easier to navigate. in my opinion.

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Well put.. thats exactly the reasoning behind the size.. I could have made it what would be termed "liquid" so it stretches and/or retracts to your resolution but decided I would rather it stays the same size as with a very high resolution desktop it would look very silly stretching too wide.

Some other sites such as the ptv (spit!) ones are set quite wide and must be a nightmare for low resolution peeps ..

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Works well in mac/safari but is very thin on left side. Liquid would be good, more info in more space... hehehe, but what can I say - I rarely get chance to update and improve!

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I prefer it to the last one, far more user friendly.

Well done Mr K.

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It loks well and ok

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just been on now and it has reverted back to the old style!!!! whats happening?

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Don't like it :(

I changed it... didn't like it.. left it a few days... didn't like it even more... changed it back...

We still ahve the new headers and now at the clubs request have a splash screen if you go direct to Official Accrington Stanley there are other slight fings in the pipeline.

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i like the splash screen but will get bored if it doesn;t change frequently :eek:

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Well thats the whole point of it.. to alert people to the latest thing.. expect a new one when the kit is available from club :) stuff like that

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jobs a good 'un!

see you tomorrow night

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I prefer the menus down the left too as you can clearly see whats in each section whereas the menus across the top, you had to go into each one to find what it was you were looking for if youre not sure where it is - pain in the ass

Jimbo T :horn8:blower

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I like the site much better with the menus down the side. Looking good overall.

Not really keen on that splash screen. Seems a bit unnecessary to me and I'd prefer to go direct to the homepage. Just my opinion. :)

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What splash screen?:rolleyes:
I've bypassed that already :D

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My thoughts exactly.