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Old October 14th 03, 05:04 AM
DRAGONSWIRE
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I'm just starting a website and am looking for some feedback. I crochet
with wire and incorporate all types of beads from semi-precious stones and
pearls to Swarovski Crystals. The site is still under-construction. I need
to link my thumbnails to detail views and add items to categories that are
currently blank. Its my first try at a website so let me know what you
think.

Dragonswire
http://www.dragonswire.com

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Old October 15th 03, 02:06 AM
Kaytee
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In article , "DRAGONSWIRE"
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http://www.dragonswire.com


Can't see any pictures-- only little red x's. I'm on AOL 9.0, Windows XP.
Kaytee
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Old October 16th 03, 06:13 AM
Marilee J. Layman
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:06:19 GMT, ospam (Kaytee)
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In article , "DRAGONSWIRE"
writes:

http://www.dragonswire.com

Can't see any pictures-- only little red x's. I'm on AOL 9.0, Windows XP.


I'm seeing pictures -- Erols with Mozilla.

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Old October 16th 03, 04:08 PM
Dale
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"DRAGONSWIRE" wrote in message
...
I'm just starting a website and am looking for some feedback. I crochet
with wire and incorporate all types of beads from semi-precious stones and
pearls to Swarovski Crystals. The site is still under-construction. I

need
to link my thumbnails to detail views and add items to categories that are
currently blank. Its my first try at a website so let me know what you
think.

Dragonswire
http://www.dragonswire.com


Seems slow to load, and I'm on a high-speed line. You might try having just
8 thumbnails per page instead of 16. You said you were intending to have
full size images of all your stuff, which is good. Love your work, I want to
see it close up! You have a few broken links where the link is pointing to
file:///C:WEBSITE/DRAGONSWIRE instead of http://www.dragonswire.com. These
are at Necklaces3, Bracelets, and Sculptue & Masks. The full size image of
Amethyst and Peridot doesn't come up, probably because there are spaces in
the name. I'd like to see an identifier on each page, like at the top where
you have "For Purchasing Information Click Here" you could say "Dragon's
Wire by Linda Hawkins" and then say "For Purchasing Information Click Here".

Aside from those kinds of issues it looks good. Your work is very pretty,
and the photography is good, though it would be better if you adjusted each
image to make the background a consistent brightness. Something good for
search engines is to put a description of each image in the 'alt' keyword.
Finally, some kind of blurb about Dragon's Wire seems in order. The name is
good, but it makes me want to know something more, like how Dragon's Wire
was once worn by Viking queens of yore, or some such romantic nonsense. Or
you could be a bit more practical as in this website
http://www.golden-knots.com/.

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Old October 17th 03, 02:57 AM
Kaytee
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In article , "Marilee J. Layman"
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Can't see any pictures-- only little red x's. I'm on AOL 9.0, Windows XP.


I'm seeing pictures -- Erols with Mozilla.


I'm not sure what my problem is with this site-- others on AOL seem to be able
to see it; Peter had a few suggestions, but, except for two dragon pictures at
the top of the home page, they didn't change things for me, either.
I'm not having problems with seeing other graphics-- occasionally a "red x"
shows up, but "show picture" brings up the graphic.
The most likely cause seems to have something to do with my firewall--
Norton's, if that matters-- and/or its combination with AOL 9.0. Every time I
loaded the site, I got a warning from the firewall program that something was
attempting to access my computer-- and it was high enough "risk" that I wasn't
given a choice whether or not to accept the access. Since I use hubby's
computer, with his USNR stuff, finances and some confidential patient info on
it, I'm not going to mess with changing or disabling the firewall settings.
Kaytee
"Simplexities" on
www.eclecticbeadery.com
http://www.rubylane.com/shops/simplexities

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Old October 17th 03, 07:50 AM
NE333RO
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except for two dragon pictures at
the top of the home page, they didn't change things for me, either.


Saw the dragons, nothing else.
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Old October 18th 03, 01:59 AM
Dale
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"DRAGONSWIRE" wrote in message
...
I'm just starting a website and am looking for some feedback. I crochet
with wire and incorporate all types of beads from semi-precious stones and
pearls to Swarovski Crystals. The site is still under-construction. I

need
to link my thumbnails to detail views and add items to categories that are
currently blank. Its my first try at a website so let me know what you
think.

Dragonswire
http://www.dragonswire.com


Me again. From what other people are saying, it seems like you need to use
something besides Microsoft Word to do your web pages. As a software
developer, I would advise you to avoid Microsoft software when possible.
Take a look at Trellian Webpage at
http://www.trellian.com/webpage/index.html. I just downloaded their
evaluation copy, and it looks good. There's also software specializing in
creating web galleries, like http://www.express-soft.com/etc/, or Google on
"thumbnail creator" to see more options.

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www.luxefon.com


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Old October 18th 03, 01:59 AM
Chris Hackett
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Everything worked fine, pages downloaded quite quickly and all links worked.
I tried it on an older version of Netscape (Communicator 4.7) and MS
Internet Explorer 6. I am only on dial up so the download time was fine. The
only thing I didn't like was the time it took to download the enlarged
pictures, I would get fed up waiting. The file size was far too large.

Chris


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Old October 21st 03, 02:13 AM
Barbara Otterson
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:04:50 GMT, "DRAGONSWIRE"
wrote:

I'm just starting a website and am looking for some feedback. I crochet
with wire and incorporate all types of beads from semi-precious stones and
pearls to Swarovski Crystals. The site is still under-construction. I need
to link my thumbnails to detail views and add items to categories that are
currently blank. Its my first try at a website so let me know what you
think.

Dragonswire
http://www.dragonswire.com


Fascinating work. but big pictures! I don't know
about you, but it puts me off to have to move the picture
side to side to see the whole thing.
Maybe just large enough to fill the screen with
close-ups of certain sections to show detail?
Barbara
Dream Master
www.dreamweaverstudio.com

"We've got two lives, one we're given,
the other one we make."
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Old October 26th 03, 06:57 PM
ilaboo
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nice job--only sugestion is to keep it simple -- a detailed image of your
work would be nice on the home page image
hth

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 01:13:19 GMT, Barbara Otterson
wrote:

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:04:50 GMT, "DRAGONSWIRE"
wrote:

I'm just starting a website and am looking for some feedback. I crochet
with wire and incorporate all types of beads from semi-precious stones
and
pearls to Swarovski Crystals. The site is still under-construction. I
need
to link my thumbnails to detail views and add items to categories that
are
currently blank. Its my first try at a website so let me know what you
think.

Dragonswire
http://www.dragonswire.com


Fascinating work. but big pictures! I don't know
about you, but it puts me off to have to move the picture
side to side to see the whole thing.
Maybe just large enough to fill the screen with
close-ups of certain sections to show detail?
Barbara
Dream Master
www.dreamweaverstudio.com

"We've got two lives, one we're given,
the other one we make."
Mary Chapin Carpenter




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