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10-13-2004, 03:45 PM
Ok I have two web sites in question.
SITE 1.
This is my horse farm web site http://www.barnespaddock.com This version I did about 2 1/2 years ago. PURPOSE is for advertising my farm business - for giving information on what we do and how we do it. It is not in itself the 'mane' business (pardon the pun).
CONTENT: There are some broken links and some general type errors I have to fix, along with just updating the CONTENT. I've added stuff over the months and months and just let my organization go to crap.
GRAPHICS /GUI: hmmmm --- I well ---- hmmmm - I dunno if I am getting BORED with it or what. The parents of the kids who come here to take riding lessons love it ---- I'm not proud of it any more.
My husband wants me to do it in FLASH this next time but I'm not so sure my audience fits the profile for 'flash viewers'.
I have a learning area, Barnes U, that is password protected - but I'd like to come up with ways to present dynamic information and some interactivity - which could be the flash part there.
FUNCTIONALITY: The site itself needs to go CSS - which I will have to learn.
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SITE 2.
This is a new venture - http://www.ncsporteq.com - purpose of this is just a learning experiment for me, and maybe some day get some rainy day money out of the classifieds system.
FUNCTIONALITY - did not start it out with CSS - like I said I'm addressing that and am taking tutorials.
USER PARTICIPATION: What I'd like to do, but have no clue where to start - is set myself up so I can have NEWS added to the web site - I'd LOVE to have the representatives from other horse associations be able to UPLOAD their own news to the web site - but not sure how to do this? Can someone point me in the right direction (can CSS handle this? Is this a data base thing? I'd love to have the scrolling Java news 'ticker' where when you mouse over it it STOPS and of course the clickable link takes you to the full story).
I also have the FORUM - I had a CGI one, but have changed it out to the PHPBB (don't ask me why other than the CGI I had was older and I just needed to update and changed). I have the events calendar tied into that so that members can add North Carolina / Horse related events.
CHAT - I just got the flash chat up but have not changed the look, and there are a few bugs I need to clean up. So far the users like it. I am hoping to attract horse associations/clubs to use it for wide spread meetings etc.
CLASSIFIEDS: I need a good classified system - PayPal - where the user can do it all (make payments, have the ad post, and upload photos). I am GUESSING I should get this script/program in PHP too? (I'm not a programmer, I know enough to get this stuff installed and to admin it on a general level). If anyone has suggestions TO a program/script I'd be very greatful.....
GRAPHICS / GUI - welp this was just a first draft - the flash movie is WAY to big (takes too long to load) and that is because I didn't clean up the library - it is on my list of things to do. I got good feedback from the horsey folks that they like the subtle animation. I am not sure I like the sites NAVIGATION system IN the flash movie.
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SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE:
I have the latest Dreamweaver now (upgraded from what ever version was out some 3 years ago) - with dreamweaver I will stay.
I have Photoshop 7 on my lap top but for some reason I can not get photoshop to RUN on my desk top (crashes with both version 6 and 7)- so have been tinkering with FIREWORKS.
6+ years back I did some time in an advertising agency (which is where I learned how to modestly use photoshop) but wonder if my graphics are going to be WEB ONLY (ie no longer print media) WOULD I do better to just dig in and learn FIREWORKS?
I am a VECTOR DUMMY!!!!!
GENERAL PROMOTION:
NOW - years ago when I was doing web stuff (some 6 years ago) it was VERY easy to submit sites to search engines but that has changed! My farm web site comes up on searches quite easily (just doing a simple search for North Carolina riding lessons, or NC Pony, etc brings it up usually on the first page of results).
BUT I can't get NC Sport Eq out there --- need advice.
Ok - let me have it!
SITE 1.
This is my horse farm web site http://www.barnespaddock.com This version I did about 2 1/2 years ago. PURPOSE is for advertising my farm business - for giving information on what we do and how we do it. It is not in itself the 'mane' business (pardon the pun).
CONTENT: There are some broken links and some general type errors I have to fix, along with just updating the CONTENT. I've added stuff over the months and months and just let my organization go to crap.
GRAPHICS /GUI: hmmmm --- I well ---- hmmmm - I dunno if I am getting BORED with it or what. The parents of the kids who come here to take riding lessons love it ---- I'm not proud of it any more.
My husband wants me to do it in FLASH this next time but I'm not so sure my audience fits the profile for 'flash viewers'.
I have a learning area, Barnes U, that is password protected - but I'd like to come up with ways to present dynamic information and some interactivity - which could be the flash part there.
FUNCTIONALITY: The site itself needs to go CSS - which I will have to learn.
***********************************************************
SITE 2.
This is a new venture - http://www.ncsporteq.com - purpose of this is just a learning experiment for me, and maybe some day get some rainy day money out of the classifieds system.
FUNCTIONALITY - did not start it out with CSS - like I said I'm addressing that and am taking tutorials.
USER PARTICIPATION: What I'd like to do, but have no clue where to start - is set myself up so I can have NEWS added to the web site - I'd LOVE to have the representatives from other horse associations be able to UPLOAD their own news to the web site - but not sure how to do this? Can someone point me in the right direction (can CSS handle this? Is this a data base thing? I'd love to have the scrolling Java news 'ticker' where when you mouse over it it STOPS and of course the clickable link takes you to the full story).
I also have the FORUM - I had a CGI one, but have changed it out to the PHPBB (don't ask me why other than the CGI I had was older and I just needed to update and changed). I have the events calendar tied into that so that members can add North Carolina / Horse related events.
CHAT - I just got the flash chat up but have not changed the look, and there are a few bugs I need to clean up. So far the users like it. I am hoping to attract horse associations/clubs to use it for wide spread meetings etc.
CLASSIFIEDS: I need a good classified system - PayPal - where the user can do it all (make payments, have the ad post, and upload photos). I am GUESSING I should get this script/program in PHP too? (I'm not a programmer, I know enough to get this stuff installed and to admin it on a general level). If anyone has suggestions TO a program/script I'd be very greatful.....
GRAPHICS / GUI - welp this was just a first draft - the flash movie is WAY to big (takes too long to load) and that is because I didn't clean up the library - it is on my list of things to do. I got good feedback from the horsey folks that they like the subtle animation. I am not sure I like the sites NAVIGATION system IN the flash movie.
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SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE:
I have the latest Dreamweaver now (upgraded from what ever version was out some 3 years ago) - with dreamweaver I will stay.
I have Photoshop 7 on my lap top but for some reason I can not get photoshop to RUN on my desk top (crashes with both version 6 and 7)- so have been tinkering with FIREWORKS.
6+ years back I did some time in an advertising agency (which is where I learned how to modestly use photoshop) but wonder if my graphics are going to be WEB ONLY (ie no longer print media) WOULD I do better to just dig in and learn FIREWORKS?
I am a VECTOR DUMMY!!!!!
GENERAL PROMOTION:
NOW - years ago when I was doing web stuff (some 6 years ago) it was VERY easy to submit sites to search engines but that has changed! My farm web site comes up on searches quite easily (just doing a simple search for North Carolina riding lessons, or NC Pony, etc brings it up usually on the first page of results).
BUT I can't get NC Sport Eq out there --- need advice.
Ok - let me have it!