It is part of a much bigger travel website and there is still quite
a bit of work to do. (banners, backgrounds, links, contacts etc.)
In the mean time, I thought I'll share what I've done so far and
try and get some feedback... and hits of course ;-)
It's a community based website and where better to start than with
the area I live in. Oh.... and Monique btw.
Tell me what you think: http://www.helderberg.cc/
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how do you make the scrolling things down the sides?
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To quote Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_af...
South Africa is known for its diversity in cultures, languages, and
religious beliefs. Eleven official languages are recognised in the constitution.
English is the most commonly spoken language in official and commercial
public life; however, it is only the fifth most-spoken home language.
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To answer your question. There's a lot of HTML, javascript and CSS and
it's all built with the yola site builder... of course!!
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It's a fantastic selection of elements. The thing that impressed me initially was the combination of the static banner over the slideshow. That really holds it together fantastically. The images are great.
Your selected partners at the bottom of the page add a specific community ownership and that's clever. Snippets of relevancy ground and reassure the traveller.
The scrolling panels, besides their advertising content, actually inject some travel style movement onto the page. It holds attention.
The use of the cookie is clever. Website welcomes can be boring but "welcome back" and "I remember your last visit" is quite personal and effective. Good work.
A fantastic project Boomer and can't wait for future instalments.
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The unofficial yola website reviewers.
You two have really got a way with words. I'm still blushing.
Littlus, you impress me more every day with your involvement here
on Get Satisfaction. Your personality shines through your writings.
You must be a really nice person. Thanks for the kind words.
Peter, Peter, Peter. What can I say, but thanks for the thorough review.
I timed you there and you were on the site for 7m22s ;-)
Thanks buddy for the long hard look and all the positive feedback.
Really appreciate.
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PS. Is it hard making the images which slowly change?
i have just added a bit of java to my site which chooses random images, but its on a refresh, http://hexham.info, i would love to add changing images to a new page im currently working on
thanks Lee.
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The code for the fade-in image slideshow can be found here:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicin...
Its really easy to use and you can have several slideshows running
independently on the same page which will suit your application perfectly.
Only one problem though. IE does not show the smooth transitions.
Works in all the other browsers though. Let me know if you need any help
implementing it on your site.
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Die Afrikaans is nie te sleg vir 'n Australier nie ;-)
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To translate: Ruth said that my site looks super nice and It's the
best site she has ever seen and I replied that
her Afrikaans wasn't too bad for an Australian.
Notice I did not say ex Aussie, Ruth ;-)
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Boomer, I didn't know you were given to hyperbole...
I still have that Aussie passport...
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Nice cheap holliday. Want me to organise the tour?. Just kidding!!
I'm really glad you took that screenshot. I picked up that the "whats hot"
text is stacked. I checked the site in Safari for code functionality a while
back, but have not checked the layout recently.
You made me take another look. I also noticed that the drop down
selection boxes overlap to the right. I'll have to fix this.
Thanks for the compliments.
Disclaimer: Site best viewed in Firefox!!
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Ruth, Monique, Emmy & Kershnee!
lol
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I've fixed the stacked text and the drop down boxes in Safari (I think?)
I'm having problems with my IE8, (Needs adobe plugin but wont let me install)
so if anyone can do a screenshot in IE for me I would be gratefull.
Finally, could someone tell me what time the "local time" is displaying?
It should be GMT +2. Thanks.
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Totally awesome site showcasing the even more awesome place that Boomer, myself and Ruth are lucky enough to live in.
I was quite excited to see some of my favorite restaurants and hang outs featured on the home page. Almost as good as seeing your house on TV! :)
You really have done a stunning job. With further development you could rival the other Helderberg info sites. I would get such a kick out of it if your site came up on page 1 of Google. Hope you take the challenge :)
Now Emmy will have to visit! Offers of free accommodation in the Helderberg now open. But only if your name is Emmy and you own an official Yola shirt :)
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All in all a kick butt travel site that should get some major traffic in the months and years to come. It should keep you occupied with all the future updates and additions. Just wait for all those business to take notice and ask you to include them.
Wish I had more time to give you more praise but it is most late here and I seem to be up to my ears in honey. I mean tasks... ;)
Keep it up my friend...
The Honey Bear
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I really needed the nod from someone who knows the area.
Did not realise Ruth also came from round here - small world.
Don't you worry, that site WILL be on top some day soon, just
give it, and me, time ;-)
Ed: Thanks for coming in from the cold to do the review.
Appreciate the good words from the pro, and yes the "opacity
onmouseover" code was your addition. Works well - thanks bud!
Grace: From the lady of "few words" with the most beautiful site,
you always choose the choice ones (good thing). Thanks very much.
While I'm at it... Emmy: If you get tired of staying with Monique
or Ruth, I know of another place you could crash. Don't worry about
the Yola shirt (tongue in cheek) Sorry, just couldn't resist ;-)
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Something I noticed on your site that I just wanted to share with you and you can do with this as you like.
This concerns your scrolling slideshow on the right.
When I went on your site, at first I thought there was something wrong with the slideshow as there was a big expanse of white after the last image scrolling up. Then, after waiting for a few minutes, I realized that it was coming around again.
Is there a way to enable the slideshow to have a continuous loop without the big break between your last image and the first image?
Your site still looks great! I guess I'm being really picky. Sorry! As I said, you can do with my two-cents as you will - throw it out the window or put it in a penny jar for later! =)
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that has continuous scrolling but still have not found one.
You will notice the same thing with the RSS news feed and the
horizontal news feed for that matter. They all seem to work that way!
The reason for using the scroller at all is the fact that
I can place unlimited ad's in a confined space.
The scroller I'm using can also take animated gif's, flash, text
and pic's. I'll have to live with it for now until I find something better.
Don't be sorry, I really look forward to constructive critisism.
Thanks Littleus. Need to go spend a penny now ;-)
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background. Plus, I'ts still going to get a lot more ads. This
will make it take a lot longer to go round.
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It's so hard when we want to have everything at our fingertips and yet it just out of our grasp!
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what's coming up in advance as opposed to one ad at a time coming
into view. I like your thinking though. Gimme more...gimme, gimme!
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Give me a minute to catch up... ok!
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al
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Private Information.
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Here's the code. Copy it "as is" into an HTML Widget!
You should know by now to leave out the <!-and the -->
at the begining and the end. Good luck!!
<!--
<script type = "text/javascript">
/***********************************************
* Display time of last visit script- by JavaScriptKit.com
* This notice MUST stay intact for use
* Visit JavaScript Kit at http://www.javascriptkit.com/ for this script and more
***********************************************/
var days = 730; // days until cookie expires = 2 years.
var lastvisit=new Object();
var firstvisitmsg="This is your first visit to this page. Welcome!";
lastvisit.subsequentvisitmsg="Welcome back! Your last visit was on <b>[displaydate]</b>";
lastvisit.getCookie=function(Name){
var re=new RegExp(Name+"=[^;]+", "i");
if (document.cookie.match(re))
return document.cookie.match(re)[0].split("=")[1];
return'';
}
lastvisit.setCookie=function(name, value, days){
var expireDate = new Date();
var expstring=expireDate.setDate(expireDate.getDate()+parseInt(days));
document.cookie = name+"="+value+"; expires="+expireDate.toGMTString()+"; path=/";
}
lastvisit.showmessage = function() {
var wh = new Date();
if (lastvisit.getCookie("visitc") == "") {
lastvisit.setCookie("visitc", wh, days);
document.write(firstvisitmsg);
}
else {
var lv = lastvisit.getCookie("visitc");
var lvp = Date.parse(lv);
var now = new Date();
now.setTime(lvp);
var day = new Array("Sun", "Mon", "Tues", "Wed", "Thur", "Fri", "Sat");
var month = new Array ("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec");
var dd = now.getDate();
var dy = now.getDay();
dy = day[dy];
var mn = now.getMonth();
mn = month[mn];
yy = now.getFullYear();
var hh = now.getHours();
var ampm = "AM";
if (hh >= 12) {ampm = "PM"}
if (hh >12){hh = hh - 12};
if (hh == 0) {hh = 12}
if (hh < 10) {hh = "0" + hh};
var mins = now.getMinutes();
if (mins < 10) {mins = "0"+ mins}
var secs = now.getSeconds();
if (secs < 10) {secs = "0" + secs}
var dispDate = dy + ", " + mn + " " + dd + ", " + yy + " " + hh + ":" + mins + ":" + secs + " " + ampm
document.write(lastvisit.subsequentvisitmsg.replace("\[displaydate\]", dispDate))
}
lastvisit.setCookie("visitc", wh, days);
}
lastvisit.showmessage();
</script>
-->
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It must work then Alex. Try again!!
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Works for me 1st time on a test site.
Copy the code "as is" and remember to leave out the <!--
at the begining of code and the --> at the end of the code.
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On what page are you trying to implement this code? Would you mind posting that page's url so I can take a look at why this isn't working for you?
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the page it online at
http://testsiteddm.synthasite.com/tes...
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do you need any HTML codes?
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That scroller, although it looks pretty simple, was not easy
to do. The scroller is actually an iframe of another site
that I created just to host the ads. If you are really interested
in using this, I will attempt to explain.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicin...
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