Re: I'm sure I shall regret this.............

Richard Robinson wrote:
Ron(UK) said:
Richard Robinson wrote:

I had a very annoying conversation a few months back, with a bloke who's
set up a local website (not Ron, for those who are watching closely).
Not a bad idea, could be useful, but. It's all "designed", with areas
having a black background, and other areas where black is used for the
text of links. And they don't fit together right, so they're both
happening at the same time. Wherever there ought to be a link, it's
invisible.
I think I know who you mean

bandsinlancaster

I asked him if he could put a control on there to turn off the annoying music but he couldn`t understand anyone wouldn`t want to hear it.

*Aha*. There are advantages in having websites that don't jbex as
intended, then. I hadn't even realised it tried to do that.

It IS a rather fussy website, but I guess it serves it`s purpose well

Not here it doesn't, because it's nigh-on ^&*(ing illegible. Sometimes I
can see useful things in it, sometimes they're all jumbledup and
overwriting each other, or using the same colours for text and for
background. And I suppose I mentioned it because I'd _like_ to be able
to see it, it is a good idea.

What browser are you trying to view it with, it works fine for me in Firefox and Opera, albeit a bit eye strainey with all those colours going on.

Do you have any theories as to why you seeit as you do?



It`s certainly made updating mine a lot easier ;)

Yes, I can imagine. It's odd, isn't it ? You'd think there ought to be
some way of having a list of Everything That's Happening. But if there
is, no-one seems to know of it. (In a properly-designed world, I'd
suggest this is one of the things a Tourist Info office might be for. Ho
hum).

The probelm s gathering the info, most venue/pub owners CBA to email their weekly gig lists, We are indebted to Nonie and Tony for their hard work in visiting all those splendid establishments and being force to partake of the brown liquid for our convenience. I totally unashamedly purloin their hard work for my own site.

Our Tourist Information barely know what`s going on in the same building as them, never mind what`s-on in 'the big city©'

Even a carp website is better'n no website



My own website is nothing to write home about, originally I 'created' it in MS Worm - 9 years ago! and never got round to changing much.

It Just Jbexeth. Nowt fancy to get in the way of doing what it's
supposed to. Easy to use. (My Leeds tunes website is equally ancient.
The html was last overhauled to make use of tables, when they became
available).

I use tables and frames tho I was 'ticked off' by a certain Mr Gaughan regarding use of the latter as he says they are the very devils work and are to be eschewed - too late now of course.




Ah, okay, a disrecommendation. This waste-of-the-poor-sod's-jbex website
has headers claiming it was molished with Serif WebPlus 9.0.1b. So be
warned. If you use this, from a 'I don't want to understand any of this,
but it gives me some easy buttons to push and it looks okay here' POV,
you can't count on it producing stuff that's okay for your potential
readers.

I suspect that part of the problem is that given many buttons to push, many website builders can`t resist pushing them?


Ron

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