I've got a new website.

[Dreadhead]

very smooth and accessible nice one Mark

 

[HillBill]

Great news that.

Aye, its nice to be busy

Yay, looks good to me (on my Win8 hi-speed laptop ), everything seems to work fine. The review vid is grand.

Suggestions ...
- I see you have nothing immediately available, it might be good to have some pix of past knives there, maybe with a wee story or something about them, the otherwise blank page with just the message is a little sort of "intimidating".
- the materials and care page; as you can (I do know about time!) it would be nice to have pix of each of the woods, including the burls. The beginners amongst us may not know what they look like. Similarly for the steels and grinds.
- on the leatherwork page you say "[FONT='Open Sans', sans-serif]Please contact me through the contact section for any queries you may have"[/FONT], it feels weird to use the word "contact" twice, so close . You might change it to "Please contact me HERE" with link on the word HERE.

Nice pic of you - is that Malham ???


Have added you to my Bushcraft Links ...

Thanks Elen. Yes thats Malham... lovely place, especially at the bottom of the cove. Its very peaceful there and there are Perigrines nesting in the cove now.
Points noted and will see what i can do

Of course, your business and your money. I would have thought that a decent designer would make provision for the client to add content themselves. But then as with buying knives, web services or anything else, caveat emptor.

I did have access to the site editor, but it was all lines of code and i couldn't understand any of it I've saved a lot of money this way. My business will be better off for it

Hello Mark,

Just been through the whole website, and added it in my favourites. Nice to look at, simple to navigate, logically laid out, my only concern is that it made me want to spend cash I plainly don't have at the moment. Good luck with the new site and I hope it increases sales for you.

ATB,
GB.

Thanks mate

Its the little symbol you get when you bookmark a website or see in the address bar. If you go to google they have a white G in a blue box.

They are easy to make and loads of websites out there generate them http://www.favicon.co.uk/

So i could have my makers mark as a favicon?

 

[HillBill]

Thanks Hamish

very smooth and accessible nice one Mark

 

[resnikov]

So i could have my makers mark as a favicon?

Yes that would work really well.

 

[HillBill]

Cool I'll look into it tonight then, cheers

Yes that would work really well.

 

[leon-1]

Hey Mark, your site is good looking.

It is Slow though.

I am working off an old netbook at the moment and the difference between the speed of your site and others is noticeable. On my new laptop I wouldn't notice it due to memory and processor size / speed , but on a phone, tablet or netbook then it is considerably different.

Your front page throws out these errors.

[10:36:39.773] Expected media feature name but found 'touch-enabled'. @ http://www.markhillknives.com/:1
[10:36:39.773] Expected media feature name but found '-webkit-touch-enabled'. @ http://www.markhillknives.com/:1
[10:36:39.773] Expected media feature name but found '-o-touch-enabled'. @ http://www.markhillknives.com/:1
[10:36:39.773] Expected media feature name but found '-ms-touch-enabled'. @ http://www.markhillknives.com/:1
[10:36:39.773] Expected media feature name but found 'modernizr'. @ http://www.markhillknives.com/:1
[10:36:39.805] Unknown property '-moz-opacity'. Declaration dropped. @ http://www.markhillknives.com/
[10:36:39.806] Error in parsing value for 'background-image'. Declaration dropped. @ http://www.markhillknives.com/
[10:36:39.806] Expected color but found 'left'. Error in parsing value for 'background-image'. Declaration dropped. @ http://www.markhillknives.com/
[10:36:40.517] Error in parsing value for 'filter'. Declaration dropped. @ http://www.markhillknives.com/
[10:36:40.518] Unknown property '-moz-border-radius-topright'. Declaration dropped. @ http://www.markhillknives.com/
[10:36:40.941] Unknown property 'zoom'. Declaration dropped. @ http://static.wix.com/services/web/2.400.18/viewer.min.css:1
[10:36:40.941] Unknown property 'user-select'. Declaration dropped. @ http://static.wix.com/services/web/2.400.18/viewer.min.css:1
[10:36:40.941] Unknown property 'box-sizing'. Declaration dropped. @ http://static.wix.com/services/web/2.400.18/viewer.min.css:1
[10:36:41.614] Use of getAttributeNode() is deprecated. Use getAttribute() instead. @ http://static.wix.com/services/bootstrap/2.400.18/libs.min.js:2
[10:36:41.615] Use of attributes' nodeValue attribute is deprecated. Use value instead. @ http://static.wix.com/services/bootstrap/2.400.18/libs.min.js:2
[10:36:44.250] Unknown property 'box-sizing'. Declaration dropped. @ http://www.markhillknives.com/
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[10:36:54.662] The Web Console logging API (console.log, console.info, console.warn, console.error) has been disabled by a script on this page.

That's what shows up on developer within firefox and could be a reason for things being slow, however I have a gallery page which throws more errors and loads faster so there has to be something else as well as the errors.

Are the images specifically sized or does the website resize to fit screen. This will slow things down in a big way. There also appear to be problems with the CSS side of life, don't ask me as I am no guru, but the debugger is saying this.

As to fitting screen sizes, rather than setting a screen size (1024 x 768) set the screen size to 100%, this way it auto adjusts to the value's of the viewer. Not sure how to do this on your site, but mine is html based (it was easy enough for me to self teach) with a few PHP add ons integrated. Within the CSS you should be able to find how to do this. My main site has no CSS file as it's all custom built by me.

Your site appears to be built around the CSS, so if there is a problem or error in there it will effect everything.

As I say the site looks good, if you can get the loading speed up it'll be a very nice site indeed. If you want to chat PM me.

 

[HillBill]

Thanks Leon.

Its not optimised for mobiles yet. I'm sure theres loads of stuff i need to do yet. This was just a quick job to get it online. Your the only person who has reported any problems really over a few forums.

I'll send you a PM later tonight if ok mate? I'll have a look see and see what i can do first. Its HTML5 that the site is built with But a simple point and click thing, rather than code.. The images are just uploaded from my computer, so i expect they will need resizing. I'm just learning as i go along mate.

 

[leon-1]

Took me about 12 hours to do, long day yesterday on a computer.

No mate it's just taken you 12 hours so far. I have put hundreds of hours into making websites, from making, designing a page down to the gif's and jpegs being sized and put together to stay in keeping with the rest of the site. Creating the gif from scratch, setting the layout, choosing your colours all take time. Web designers do normally earn their pay packet mate, but yes they do also charge a lot for something that may seem like a couple of minutes work when using a CMS or an online builder. Doing it by hand is where the original cost cam from.

I started off with a website creator and then taught myself html. Now I have integrated some aspects of php into the site as well (I am not brilliant at hand editing php).

My site is very basic, but it loads quite quickly and throws very few errors. It was also built by hand and adding and removing things don't take 5 minutes. I prefer it that way because it means I have greater control over it.

I would suggest downloading and dismantling your site to see how it's built, then try building it using what you have as a template. Take your time over it, and don't place it up until you're happy.

 

[leon-1]

Thanks Leon.

Its not optimised for mobiles yet. I'm sure theres loads of stuff i need to do yet. This was just a quick job to get it online. Your the only person who has reported any problems really over a few forums.

I'll send you a PM later tonight if ok mate? I'll have a look see and see what i can do first. Its HTML5 that the site is built with But a simple point and click thing, rather than code.. The images are just uploaded from my computer, so i expect they will need resizing. I'm just learning as i go along mate.

What editor are you using??

Drop me a PM with your phone number we'll talk

 

[HillBill]

I had to get it up quickly as my other would be down today.

Yeah, 12 hours so far I know theres still work to be done on it... just need to figure it all out. My time is limited though as i spend much of my days making knives which leave little time for other things. I wasn't happy having to devote those hours to the site yesterday.

 

[HillBill]

Are you ok with the phone call this evening? I really need to get in the workshop now

What editor are you using??

Drop me a PM with your phone number we'll talk

 

[leon-1]

Mark, this evening would be better for me as well as I have a load of leatherwork to get finished, started and done. This was my elevenses break. Drop me a pm with the time and number and I'll call you at whatever time you think will be okay.

 

[HillBill]

Will do mate. Thanks

Mark, this evening would be better for me as well as I have a load of leatherwork to get finished, started and done. This was my elevenses break. Drop me a pm with the time and number and I'll call you at whatever time you think will be okay.

 

[Driftwoodwalker]

Looking good to me, well done Mark.

Lance.

 

[Robbi]

Spot on Mark, well done mate

 

[Bucephalas]

Spot on. A very nice site indeed.
As already mentioned the image sizes need reducing to help load times, it's a bit slow loading on my system.
When saving images for my sites I use the "save for web" feature (in Photoshop but other image software should have it too). It strips out meta-data and reduces the file size greatly whilst maintaining image quality.

The site is as good if not better than any I've put together and I'd be proud of what you have so far.

 

[Paddytray]

Site look nice mate love the steel background .

 

[John Fenna]

That looks good to me!

 

[HillBill]

Looking good to me, well done Mark.

Lance.

Thanks Lance

Spot on Mark, well done mate

Cheers Robbi

Spot on. A very nice site indeed.
As already mentioned the image sizes need reducing to help load times, it's a bit slow loading on my system.
When saving images for my sites I use the "save for web" feature (in Photoshop but other image software should have it too). It strips out meta-data and reduces the file size greatly whilst maintaining image quality.

The site is as good if not better than any I've put together and I'd be proud of what you have so far.

I don't have photoshop unfortunately I'll use a web re sizer or something, it'll get done. I'm just relieved i got the site up and working as it is Thanks mate

Site look nice mate love the steel background .

Thanks mate

That looks good to me!

Cheers John

 

[Claudiasboris]

Just had a quick ferret around the site on my iPad and it looks good to me. I don't know much about website design and engineering but I like your site: clean, easy to navigate and informative. Good luck!


Claudiasboris