v8 Showcase / Example Sites

[TraceyHand]

Imagine you have a 200 page website and on each page you have a different paragraph at the top, BUT that sentence is displayed in font size 14px and red in colour.

Your site has been live for 6 months and your corporate colours change and you need to change that sentence to be green instead of red. Now in the olden days you would need to open up 200 pages and individually change the colour. Instead of doing that nowadays, we would give the top paragraph a style and place that style in our stylesheet.

To change the colour to green using CSS, we would change the colour once in the stylesheet and the 200 pages would change instantly as they get the colour from the stylesheet, not the colour directly in each page. That in very basic terms is what CSS is all about, it's power and speed basically with all styling taken out of pages and put into one central file. You then change things in the style sheet and that does your whole site for you.

and having done exactly that last month, I can see why CSS has advantages in this area, at least!!

[leehack]

Being filled at the moment - http://www.run3.co.uk/

[TraceyHand]

Being filled at the moment - http://www.run3.co.uk/

you might want to correct somebodys spelling of "footwear" maybe? on site as "footware"

[Duncan Rounding]

Interesting. Or maybe not:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2297...re-or-footwear

[TraceyHand]

Interesting. Or maybe not:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2297...re-or-footwear

hmmm..interesting indeed.
Although I would have thought that the majority of people (visitors/customers) would expect to see it spelt "footwear" and so might see it as a misspelling?
Right or wrong, I'd be inclined to go for what the majority expect to see.

Unless, of course, I'm the minority in thinking that it looks wrong!

[george]

Cheers for the css reasoning replies lads. Gracias etc.

[JSnow]

My second site...

http://www.snowcam.co.za

Still using the out of the box themes but this time I have implemented quite a few block's to achieve what I need.... good fun.

All comments welcome.

[danlou84]

JSnow you from SA? well my site isnt finished and this link is for preview purposes only but.... http://www.kfhproductions.co.uk/acat...hop_index.html

just trying to get everything together!

[markbirmingham]

Our site has launched...finally!

Hi everyone,

After several months of late nights and early mornings, and trawling through the forums for help, we've finally finished our Actinic store.

Please visit us at www.ochigo.co.uk



Thanks guys!

Mark

[JSnow]

JSnow you from SA?

Yip... living it large!

You've got a nice looking site so far. The colour scheme works well and I enjoyed the fonts. The path to product is easy to navigate.

One thing to look at is the black footer links. They are lost against the dark background.

Look forward to seeing your completed site.

[danlou84]

yeah they are really temp. lol.. I basically moved them from the top while I messed with my nav bar.. havent changed it yet.. it will be white on blue or perhaps grey..

yeah a close friend of mine is too.. florida.. was born in Jo'burg tho!!

some of the stories...................................................

[markbirmingham]

Hi,

Has anyone had a chance to check out the site? Any constructive critism would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you,

Mark

[Jenny]

Viewing within IE7. your items/value box is out of line, compared with the rest of the navigation. personally i find the black harsh for my tastes. the heading Product sections looks a pixel bigger than the rest of the navigation; you may want it this way. You might want a viewable copyright statement as well.
jenny

[Duncan Rounding]

Rather than diluting this thread it would be better to start a new thread for a particular site review response. This thread is really intended to be just a showcase of Actinic designs.

You'll get more people giving you constructive comment in a dedicated thread.

[markbirmingham]

Hi Jenny and Drounding, thanks for your replies.

I'll take a look into the Items and Values box, you're right about that.

Drounding, I'll also start a new thread, thanks for the tip!

Mark