View Full Version : new music site - comments are welcome
rvsmile
11-26-03, 05:21 PM
Hi there,
Please check out my new website (http://rvsmile.com ). It is intended as a lightweight site about my music (I am a composer). The only "heavy" files are a couple of mp3 examples of my work.
Cheerio,
Renske
BerksWebGuy
11-26-03, 05:28 PM
I'm not getting anything here (can see the code for the frames).
The Visitor
11-26-03, 08:16 PM
Neither am I.
Two points on your code.
I don't think the body tag is appropriate for a frameset.
Your doctype should be one for a frameset, not transitional.
Croc Hunter
11-26-03, 09:35 PM
It's lightweight alright ??
The body tags go between the noframes tags.
You cannot use body tag with frames, your frames wont show up, its similar as using a background image and background color at the same time, only the image will show up.
Your site looks good, nice colors, but why you have huge spaces at the bottom on every page? when you design a page you keep in mind that your users donot have to scroll a lot and if you do .. you should provide an anchor to go to top.
Might I suggest, that since you are already using the .shtml extension that you go ahead and use SSI instead of frames.
I like the simplistic color scheme you are using as well as the "lightweight" (as you say) design factor.
Will be interested in seeing the completed site, once you have the bugs worked out :)
rvsmile
11-27-03, 05:00 AM
Thanks for the comments!
One thing I hadn't expected was that my site wouldn't show up at all... :D
Well, I took out the frameset, so that at least you should be able get the startpage of my site (and hopefully the rest).
Cheerio
Renske
Originally posted by Naveen
You cannot use body tag with frames, your frames wont show up . . .
You need to put the body tags within the noframe tags (as I said in my above post) so if a browser does not have frames, that is the page that is displayed. You should have them . . . just in the right place.
rvsmile
11-27-03, 12:46 PM
I don't know exactly what you looked at, but I removed the frameset totally. The site doesn't have frames. You should see a normal HTML page now. ;)
Renske
Croc Hunter
11-27-03, 07:54 PM
Works better and comes up fast. I don't know why you have the static background causung scoll/space either... is that some sort of artistic thing? I don't get it. You know you could watermark the half face background so it would slide up and down on the page when you really do need to scroll. Just a thought. I've a friend who's a composer she just returned from Amsterdam. Loved it there. http://www.petrie.hotkey.net.au/~hsunbeam/
Fast loading
Clean and to the point
rvsmile
11-28-03, 05:04 AM
Thanks for your comment. I don't know about the scrollbar. I certainly did not try to be artistic! I have been fiddling around with it to get the scrollbar out, but didn't succeed so far. If someone has a suggestion...
Renske
http://rvsmile.com
Croc Hunter
11-29-03, 01:27 AM
Back-up your files make a copy and play with this:
------------------------------------------------------------
Find and Remove:
<div id="zelfportrait"><img src="/images/zelfportret_part.jpg" alt="Renske Vrolijk" width="164" height="417">
</div>
Find:
<body>
After Add:
<script language="JavaScript1.2">
<!-- Watermark Background image script -->
if(document.all)
document.body.style.cssText=“background:white url(http://rvsmile.com/images/zelfportret_part.jpg) no-repeat fixed right right”
</script>
-------------------------------------------------------------
If you have trouble with it, let me know what you use to build your site. The script is IE specific. You can change right right" to center center" and adjust your image. Insert the script into the “Beginning of Body” field as above.
Another option:
If you want the zelfportret_part.jpg to be a fixed background, aligned to the right and top of the page, you could use your css style sheet.
Just add this to the body section of your style sheet
background:#ffffff url("/images/zelfportret_part.jpg") no-repeat top right fixed;
You would still need to remove the <div> that references the zelfportret image as Croc stated above.
This works with IE5.01 and up, Netscape 7, Mozilla and Opera 6 - up
rvsmile
11-29-03, 10:48 AM
Hi Croc and Jack,
Based on your advice I have done some tweaking. The scrollbar I kept getting was based on the relative position I had given some elements in my style sheet. Changing their positioning from relative to absolute and adapting the coordinates solved that. I did put the background image in the stylesheet as you suggested, Jack, and that seems to work fine. At least in IE and Safari on the mac. I assume this will go allright in a recent version of IE on Windows as well. The only thing that worries me a little is older versions (pre v5).
Well, the only real thing I know for sure here is, that this just is the good old PITA world of web-design...
Thanks so far.
Renske
Yes, that CSS background works in all Windows IE versions from ver 5.01 up, as well as the others I mentioned. Don't have any older browsers on my system anymore, since 80% to 90% of the users are running either IE 5+ or one of the Mozilla's.
Glad we could help :)
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