honest, but not to harsh please?

[joshuarat]

First page ever written. How about some honest opinions?
lanesefamily.com Thanks in advance for your input.

[sophiespo]

you might want to post the url for us to have a look! :)

[MannInc]

Sophiespo, it's right there, lanesefamily.com

Not too bad looking of a FP templated site. Personally I never use FP's templates, of course I'm a seasoned web designer :)

[sophiespo]

whoops!! thats what i get for trying to post at 8am :p

[joshuarat]

Manninc. Thanks (I think) for not TOO bad. <g> Not certain I really have the time (read that as intelligence) to learn pure HTML to write pages with, though I am giving it a shot. Can you reccomend any other semi-template programs to use? I am not particurally (see, i can't even spell right, much less code!) enamoured of FP, but I've got it, so I use it. Free ware is good, but am willing to spen money if it's worth it.....or should i just hit the books?

[joshuarat]

Manninc. Thanks (I think) for not TOO bad. <g> Not certain I really have the time (read that as intelligence) to learn pure HTML to write pages with, though I am giving it a shot. Can you reccomend any other semi-template programs to use? I am not particurally (see, i can't even spell right, much less code!) enamoured of FP, but I've got it, so I use it. Free ware is good, but am willing to spen money if it's worth it.....or should i just hit the books?

[(jj)]

For a personal family type site, it looks fine (even if you did use the FP templates) ;)

One thing I would suggest though, is to not use spaces in your file names. When you use spaces (like in your picture names) in file names, IE will handle them by putting a %20 in place of the spaces, but Netscape users will just not be able to see them.


Just my "For What It's Worth"

[joshuarat]

Tahnks for the heads up on the spaced file names. I'll change them tonight...had no idea why that was not working. Thats why I love the forums!

[muijefr]

Rat, nice job for first time out of the box and I think your site menu is very creative. I wonder why you have any links to other sites, such as expedia and especially msn, ugh! You don't need it and they do worse than just take up space. They take people away from your site to perhaps never return.

[joshuarat]

muijfer....i know, iknow...i hate em to...anted to keep tha page, but no time to edit it yet. shoody work huh? they will go away soon..i think...soon as i remember/figure out how. Is it bad that FP is kicking my butt? oh well, time and talent. which incidentally are two things i need to find....

[MannInc]

Here are a couple of links to FP Tutorial sites:


FP Tips and Tricks (http://www.webworksite.com/tipsntricks.htm)
FrontPageGuru (http://www.frontpageguru.com/)


I cannot vouch for the quality at all because I just ran a search for FrontPage Tutorials, but they look like they might help. ForntPageGuru is built to look like FrontPage :)

[joshuarat]

Manninc, thanks for the sites. preciate the help.