Questions and comments on re-designing your website to work for you

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« Last Edit: May 04, 2007, 06:54:37 AM by Stewart Plant »
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Travis:
- The link session is better to call this the navigation bar / pulldown menu whatever you like.
  There can be several menu options here - if you have more than 5 or 6 it is better to use a pulldown menu.
- Normally you say the links are for companies or people who want to place a link banner on a link page. If you do it professional I would not make a link page.
- For the neutal background I am agreeing with Stewart. Rather black - white or grey than a fancy colours which attracts your attention. Look at www.hetportret.nl (in black) or mine www.studio-atb.nl (in grey - white with gradual)
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Theo Bakker

Stewart:
my first versions had an extra HTML-page just like you do with services. I think for a start it is good. It is more what is in your gallery than the way you arrive there. I finally skipped this and made a navigationbar on the left. This includes DIRECTLY all the suboptions you mention within services. I got very good compliments for my navigation this way. In stead of three you could reach it by two steps.

Half a year ago I skipped over then to menubar above (Sothink Dynamic Menu Builder). If you are having too much options in your gallery than you will need this pull down menubar IMO.
« Last Edit: May 04, 2007, 06:55:13 AM by Stewart Plant »
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Theo Bakker

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Drop down menu's are great ideas but here is the first lesson in website, robots when they trawl your site will not follow javascript links such as you have in a dropdown menu. They need to have a html link code to follow and as of this should we have a drop down menu we will repeat the links on the base of the page so that any robot can find the information that will be on these pages.
There are actually a couple of other options. 

The easiest way I know of to do drop down menus is to have each menu has a hidden div and then show that div onmouseover for the top menu item.  This has the advantage that the links are still in the HTML code, they're just not visible to the visitor until they mouseover the menu. 

The other one isn't so much an option, but an addition.  Adding a separate HTML sitemap helps with the search engine spidering as does a SiteMaps.org XML file. 
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Hi all,

Thanks for your comments, I hope you dont mind but I have but them here and please everyone else post here any comments and ideas. The reason for this is so that we keep the main area in a set lesosn format and have this as the discussion area for the lessons to keep everything running freely.

Theo, some great ideas and Ryan thanks for mentionsing sitemaps when we get into the main building this is something we will cover as a section

Cheers and Beers

Stew
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Just a quick one for everyone, when we go on to SEO we will see how sucessful a links page can be for your website bringing business in as well as boosting your page placement on search engines.
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