>Well I have had a "Web Page" for about a month, though there was no content in it.
Well, over the last couple days, I have finally been able to add content. I am far from finished, I want to add some of the articles that I have written, and want to add some of my favorite links, etc. But finally I am not embarrased to tell someone I have a personal web site.
If any of you would like to add a like to my website on your web pages, feel free. I will be adding my page to the Segmented Woodturners Web Rings sometime soon.
As with my turning, I welcome critique, especially from you experienced Webmasters.
That's a nice start. If you can replace the gears in the upper left with a picture of a bowl, so visitors would know what you were about right away...
The format of the page backgrounds is a series of pictures. The one in the upper left corner is located in a subdirectory of your main page called:
img
That image is topbox48251.gif and is 180x205 pixels.
So if you crop and resize one of the pictures to that size. Save it as a gif. And overwrite the "gear picture" (topbox48251.gif) then you will have a small picture of one of your turnings in the upper left corner of each of your pages.
Personally I would like to see a different image in that space for each of your pages. On your opening page I would like to see a picture of you standing at your lathe or holding one of your bowls. The segmented page would have that image change to a segmented turning... That way you have the consistent look which is nice but with some context. To do that you would need to edit each of the pages and replace the reference to:
img/topbox48251.gif
to
img/image of your choice.gif (this should be 180x205 pixels)
That editing should be done in an ASCII editor like notepad. Just do a find on "img/topbox48251.gif" and replace that with the gif of your choice.
The text on the selection images runs long on some. These are images as well.
navigr1.gif
navigr2.gif
navigr3.gif
navigr4.gif
navigr5.gif
navigr6.gif
navig7.gif
all located within the img subdirectory.
The attached image is a blank form of this image. You can make a copy of this image and edited text onto that copy which you would then save to the desired file name and overwrite the existing image.
I would make alternate version with the text in red to indicate that you were viewing that particular page.
I would like to see larger text. for some reason the text size is x-small or xx-small. These sizes are specified in the styles at the top of the web page. Yes I can always increase the size in my browser. And yes the pictures are the more important aspect of such a web site.
Anyway, I like the site as it is. If you do nothing more than keep it updated you will have a great site.
I was building the pages on my laptop, but viewing them on a low res monitor on one of your home desktops, and I did not notice how bad the text size was until another turner pointed it out to me. I have fixed that.
All of the rest is along the lines of what I have been thinking about as well. As you probably guessed I used a standard template that my ISP provided to start with, and have been slowly modifiying them as I learn how to use Dreamweaver. I have thought about using a low Opacity picture of one of my bowls for the wallpaper - appropriate and different for each page - keeping buttons consistant on all pages.
Luckily there are no know pictures of me turning at the lathe - you would have to have your monitor set to a high resolution to get me on the screen. ;)
Thanks for all your great suggestions, and the technical pointers. Now I have to hope to find time to do all of this sort of stuff.
>Congratulations Mark! Very well done. My only criticism is that the print is a bit small for my old eyes, and small monitor screen.
I've been urged by several people to get my own web site. So far, I've resisted. I'm surpised at how many pieces I've sold by just posting pics on WoW.
>Very nice Mark, I finally got a chance to look your site over - I like it. And, the work you have displayed is incredible. I'm not all that much of a fan of segmented work, but your stuff is superb! My favorites are three segmented vases: the two walnut, and the one peice you talked about emulating fire with - nice stuff.
