sewhappy Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 I added a new page to my website-any one who knows me knows that is not an easy thing for me to do:D. Anyway after much stress related to it-(Somehow a different page came up in LATIN and had a very hard time taking care of that) I like this new page and just want you all to take a minute to peruse it for me and let me know what you think! www.sewhappyquilts.com then go to "Pattern Of The Month" Thanks for looking! Patty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neher-in-law5 Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 It looks good. I like the ease of your site. The only suggestion I have is to move the button closer to home so the words don't overlap on the next button. Have a good day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renae Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 I have a suggestion Patty also. What about adding the size of the quilts below the name of them? I always like to know how big they are. I have one more but it may just be my age.....I had a hard time reading the first part that you had in the purple. I had to get really close to my moniter. Like I said it may be just my age.....because I love your site and I love purple......I just had a hard time reading the black letters on the purple. Otherwise I love your website.......it is easy to get around and find what you want. Renae Gamel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramona-quilter Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 Patty, I don't know if you have made any of the uggested changes but I had no trouble looking at the site. No over-lapped buttons and I saw the size of the quilt. Some folks have their monitors set differently depending on the age and operating system of their computer. My system is pretty current and I did not have any difficulty with the colors either. Like I said, you may have already made some corrections. Actually, I found the site easy to navigate. I hate going to cluttered sites where they try to put way too much info on a page. Your site (and new page) looks great to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 Patty, I too had no trouble with your site. The purple is a little dark and I can see with a smaller monitor that it might be hard for some to read. I'm glad you're up and running. Heidi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Sew Simple Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 How colorful and cute. I love the dogflower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattyJo Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 Patty - I loved your site. I had no problems reading even on my laptop. Love your new pattern of the month. Glad you got rid of the grimlins that were giving you a hard time.:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elkayr Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 The site looks just fine. I also had a problem with the purple being difficult to read. Maybe it is an age thing, but if you could lighten the purple a bit I thing it would be easier on the eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neher-in-law5 Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 I checked it a couple more times today. I don't have a problem with the purple, so that could also be a personal eye issue. Each time I checked it the pattern of the month words ended up overlapping the next button. I'm using a new (August) Mac if that would make any difference. You've done a nice job on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roberta Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 I thought your site looked great. I went to patterns of the month and found it very user friendly. I really liked that you added notions of the month that corresponded to what one might need for the project. Clever and useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaR Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 I like your site a lot. Not hard on the eyes.. the purple was a bit hard to read, but I just highlighted the box, and the print turned white, so I could read it easier. I read it when you first posted about it, so if it's been changed, that's why I'm referring back. I agree with Roberta.. love the way things are linked together, if they might be needed. RitaR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoreW Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 Patty, I like your use of color, and the way you have things "boxed out" and organized. It makes it easy to follow what you are reading, and has enough open space to not be cluttered. I do find the purple hard to focus on - not so much that there isn't enough contrast, just that it's hard to make my eyes stay on the print. I work in information technology and spend all day looking at a computer so my monitor is huge and good quality. I have a feeling it's just a harder color combination for more mature eyes. I am almost 50 and my eyes do get tired faster than they used to! The problem someone mentioned about the links overlapping is a browser issue. In Internet Explorer it looks just fine. In Firefox (I'm on a Macintosh) the links all shift to the right a bit and overlap. I didn't try Safari, which is the default browser for Macs. You might want to see if a change in font will fix this. I've found that Verdana seems to be the best for cross platform applications. I love the pattern of the month and will be checking to see what next month brings! Lore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seakitten Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 I am using a Mac with Firefox & did get the overlapping button thing, which is annoying. Other than that, I think the site is very nice. Since you mention Tom's woodworking talents, I'd like to see some of his work displayed also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoreW Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 I was thinking the same thing about the woodworking! My husband can build just about anything if I can show him a picture. I'd love to see what your DH has done. By the way - my son's girlfriend just moved here from Bozeman and I have an Aunt and Uncle in Livingston Montana. I understand it is a beautiful place to live, especially if you are into outdoor sports!:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhappy Posted October 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Thank you to all who took the time to look at my site and telling me what you thought! I will have DH bold the text in the purple boxes-He is at an autopsy tonite and tommorrow we have a football game to go to, but not for the footbal-DS is in Marching Band. I go only for the half time shows:):) So DH will not be able to correct the site untill this weekend. I don't really understand the buttons overlapping on different computers???It is fine on ours so we will have to figure that out! Again Thank you for taking the time to help me out! LoreW- when you visit your Aunt & Uncle in Livingston-look me up! They live just over the hill from us!! Patty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoreW Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Patty - If you want to see your web page in Mozilla Firefox so you can fix the buttons you can download and install it on your computer. Go to www.mozilla.com for the free download. I promise it's not a bad thing to do to your computer, and it will let you check your web page format in another browser so you know it will look ok. Firefox is a cross platform browser (meaning that it works on a Mac or a Windows computer) and a lot of people use it. You can still use Internet Explorer as your default browser - just uncheck the box that says "Use Firefox as my default web browser" when you are using the install wizard. The box is at the bottom of the Setup Type screen. Enjoy the half-time show! I spent years standing next to a creek in all kinds of weather watching whitewater slalom races, and now that my kids are grown I miss it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnHenry Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Hi Patty, I'm in the process of constructing my website, so I was especially interested in your thread. My browser is MSN, and all looked good. It looked exactly the same in IE. The purple didn't seem too dark to me, but the orange was definitely easier to read, so you might think about lightening to lavender inasmuch as so many persons commented upon it. I'm using FrontPage, and it doesn't look like you did. I'm almost "ready to publish" and there are many questions I would like to ask you (or anyone else experienced in website construction) as I don't have a resident teacher. I'm strictly do it yourself, using two different college course textbooks two years after taking a FrontPage class, so much of which was forgotten. It was almost as if I were starting from scratch. The teacher has moved away, so I'm on my own. Your website is short and simple and neatly organized. Mine is going to be humongous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnHenry Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 If there is a problem with overlapping words - - do you know about inserting text into a table instead of trying to organize things with tab stops and spaces? You can change the settings through the Table Dialogue Box so that the table lines won't show up in the final product, but that will prevent overlapping in any browser. Everything will stay where it is supposed to because the text or pictures can't jump out of the table cell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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