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Feb 11th, 2009 at 05:06 AM
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Cliff Main
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Hey, I almost forgot about my parent's sites. I designed a site for them years back, and they have taken it over and they use Visual Site Designer to maintain everything on thieir sites
crafts4kids.ca
rockinghorsecountry.ca

I've been looking at many of the sites posted. Good Job everyone! :D
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Feb 11th, 2009 at 08:36 AM
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Michael
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Here are two of my sites.

smartpacker.nl
brainbuster.nl

It is always good to see how others build nice sites.

Feb 11th, 2009 at 09:07 AM
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Cliff Main
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Michael wrote:
Here are two of my sites.

smartpacker.nl
brainbuster.nl

It is always good to see how others build nice sites.


Nice use of the CC template. Your sites are nice. I do have one suggestion. Since you are using style sheets for your fonts, browsers like I.E. will loose their user controls for font size. You are currently using 12px size font, and many users may find that a bit on the small side (depending on their monitor settings, of course). The user can not change the font size in I.E. due to the style sheet. This cuts out anyone who needs a larger font.

2 ways to fix this:
1 - Change to font size 14px, so that you have an overall larger font for those who need it OR
2 - Create a duplicate page, with a font size of 16, and offer a link to a page with "to view larger text size cick here"...sort of thing. It just means a duplicate page (save as "newpage.html") in the editor, then change the line of code in the style sheet to have larger fonts on that page. That way, you have made your web page/site accessibility friendlier....bad english exemption applied :P
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Feb 11th, 2009 at 09:42 AM
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Michael
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Thanks for the suggestion. When I have some more time the sites will be updated.
Feb 11th, 2009 at 08:46 PM
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gerard bruce
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Not sure if you are still looking for CC developed sites here is mine

www.medset.ca

I am a real newbie at this. This is my first site. Not 100% complete. Insetring some Forms later on.
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Feb 12th, 2009 at 01:59 PM
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BillR
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Gerard,

Good start on the site, but it looks like you copied something from MS Word or something. Down at the end of your code, you have this:
"oter stuff goes here. Copyright, disclaimers � stuff like
that."

Not sure what you are trying to do with that. If it is something you will change later, you should enter it directly in your editor, to eliminate that strange character.

I also noted that you are using XHTML, and as such, your tags and entries in those tags should be all lower case. If you look just below your <body> tag, you have an <IMG start, that should be <img

I understand XHTML is more strict about how things are done.

Hope this helps.
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Feb 12th, 2009 at 05:50 PM
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Bill Dutcher
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Nice use of the CC template. Your sites are nice. I do have one suggestion. Since you are using style sheets for your fonts, browsers like I.E. will loose their user controls for font size. You are currently using 12px size font, and many users may find that a bit on the small side (depending on their monitor settings, of course). The user can not change the font size in I.E. due to the style sheet. This cuts out anyone who needs a larger font.

2 ways to fix this:
1 - Change to font size 14px, so that you have an overall larger font for those who need it OR
2 - Create a duplicate page, with a font size of 16, and offer a link to a page with "to view larger text size cick here"...sort of thing. It just means a duplicate page (save as "newpage.html") in the editor, then change the line of code in the style sheet to have larger fonts on that page. That way, you have made your web page/site accessibility friendlier....bad english exemption applied :P


Another option would be to make a landing page with several lines that ask the user:

Choose your desired text size. 12px

Choose your desired text size. 14px

Choose your desired text size. 16px

Choose your desired text size. 18px

then when the visitor chooses a preference it launches 1?px .html which calls 1>px.css.

I'm sure there is a way to pass a variable to the .css file and have options for the different font sizes but I don't know how, never had the need.

I tend to pick up things as I need them and then retain them whether I want to or not.
Feb 16th, 2009 at 12:41 AM
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WebSight
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Thanks for all of the postings everyone. I was very interested in what all of the CC software can do. I currently only use the form builder. But it makes some excellent forms:

Simple Contact Form:
http://www.californiasuperjumbomortgage … tgage.html
http://www.dunamisteam.com/Contact_Us.html

Full ON Registration Form:
http://www.thedaycamp.com/Online_Registration.html

WebSight
Headstones
Life Christian Church San Antonio
Feb 16th, 2009 at 11:16 AM
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Cliff Main
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Greg, your link to WebSight does not work = 404 error page
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Feb 16th, 2009 at 01:31 PM
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Valentine O Okafor
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Hi All, interesting websites showcased here. I am new to CC and I am trying to learn by doing. Ronald M. I am particularly interesting in how you build your sites especially the navigations.

I need to build a site with left navigation ( I can see that you have top navigation in your sites) I did not find a left navigation template in the built-in templates of CC but I did see some thing that looks like what I am looking for in the layouts.

So I want to know how to use that layout for all my pages. I am looking to build a simple multi page website. And I am using the CC HTML Editor. Any help will be appreciated.

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