bex-lewis.co.uk
Personal pages are the ideal place to experiment with
different techniques, colours, and generally 'play', although I still
wanted my pages to look good, be informational about me, easy to navigate,
and be fairly fast loading.
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The front page is a splash page because
it was hosted on freenetname,
which does have 20MB of hosting, but my site soon exceeded
this limit so I have only uploaded the front page, although
with a functional element which enters the site hosted on
my ww2poster webspace.
- I have slowly been redesigning and
restructuring my personal webspace, to streamline it and
make it less cumbersome to keep up to date.
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- The pages were intended for the use of my family and friends
who are scattered around the UK and the world, and like
to see my pictures. I am very slow at putting my physical
photos into albums, etc. and so they appear here, although
time constraints mean that this site is also behind.
- Recently I have not had time to develop this (although
I added quite a lot of information on Fair Trade), and the
entire site needs a reassessment, and decisions as to which
areas of the site to maintain, and which to lose. Friends
like the photo pages, but it is the biggest problem for
space, and with regard to Data Protection issues.
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The new website design, currently in progress (reformatting
and streaming needed).
- I wanted to get rid of the rollover buttons, so that the
pages would load faster, and wanted a clearer menu available
on all pages, including on the right hand menu where my
pet project (fair trade) is available, plus a link to Amazon
and my 'wishlist' as people ask what I want for presents!
- I want to learn how to create submenus in DHTML, or some
such, but haven't yet learnt how to. This may decrease the
size of the left hand bar.
- I maintained a similar colour scheme to last time to provide
some consistency, and continued to use a template with the
same editable areas so that content transferred easily.
- I have added a breadcrumbs menu at the top, although I
am still entering data for this.
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With various tweaks to the website,
a smoother front-page, and a much newer photo, I think the
front of the site looks a lot better, and hopefully loads
just as fast.
- Other areas of the site continue
to be updated, but the photos section of the site certainly
gets a lot of additions.
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http://www.bex-lewis.co.uk
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