After many hours slaving over a hot computer, and nailing our ISP to the phone, the revamped web site is up and running.
Some projects have gone, and lots are now reduced to pictures in a gallery. This has allowed me to get several new things up on the costume front:
The timex French Hood: this was up on the old site for a while, but some of you may not have seen it
What the Dickens - that gold ball gown in 12 days madness! I still need pix of it on the customer, but otherwise it's all up there.
Creating a Court Gown: this has been extensively revamped and expanded, and divided into several pages to allow the completed project to go up a bit at a time as I complete it.
There's a new index page, which should allow for easier navigation, though the old forward and back button navigation will still work.
Please take a look round, and let Alan or me know of you find any errors or links that fail to work. There's a contacts page on the site if you want to contact us directly, but Alan will be checking answers here too.
I love it! its great and much easier to navigate. I always look to your site when I am stuck, sometimes it has the answer, sometimes not, but when it doesn't at least its good inspiration and relaxing!
I love the gold gown.....I was waiting for that! P.S.........you are too skinny!!!! Nice collar bones! :)
By the way, if you want to check for dead links, there is a great link checker here:
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will let you know if there are any internal, or external, links that aren't working. In addition to my guitar strap biz, I'm a webdesigner & I use that checklink tool a lot when building / revising sites.
Hehe! I still have about a stone (14 lbs) to lose to get to goal - and I won't lose much this week! I have a mad attack of the munchies! The vital statistics have gone down from 43/38/49 to 36/30/40, so there is still room for improvement. Slowly does it...
Glad it works for you. BB has improved all sorts of things for us! I can now talk to clients on the phone AND be connected to the net, as can DH! :) It also made uploading the new look site much quicker than it would have been.
I think the speed of this at your end is helped by the fact that Alan cut out a LOT of hidden garbage! There were loads of pix 'on the site' that had no hyperlinks to them.
Just to clarify, unreferenced pictures won't be loaded when you get a page, they just occupied a lot of space on the ISP for no benefit. I have reorganised the pages and separated each one with its pictures into a separate directory, as well as tidying up the code a bit.
Some of the speed benefit will be down to the lack of picures on the index pages. Text loads a lot faster than pictures. I have tidied up the html page code a bit, and added a Table of Contents for quick reference - there is a link at the bottom of each page to get back to it.
I don't know how it works in France, but in the UK the telco, the phone company, is responsible for the wiring up to the master socket, the first phone point in the house. The in-house wiring is up to the homeowner, and may have been installed when the house was built, added to by previous occupants, or all be DIY.
In my case it was all DIY, done with the four-wire and six-wire BT signal cable of the time (25 years ago)(by me :-) ). This cable is *no good* for broadband, and I have resorted to connecting one of those little splitters to the master socket, so that the house wiring only gets telephone signals and the broadband router is fed from the splitter. All this is pending my rewiring the house telephones with twisted-pair cabling, which will support broadband.
If your house wiring is not to modern twisted-pair standard, it could affect the reliability of the broadband signal. This should be may noticable as the broadband light on your modem flickering even when there is no computer activity. If you are a long way from your exchange the signal may be pretty degraded already and any slight fault will be critical. Your modem may be falling back to a slower connection speed because it can't get a reliable connection.
Digression: dialup modems work at the same frequencies as the human voice and can connect using almost any voice telephone wiring. Voice frequency transmission doesn't require much in the way of special cabling, just good connections - a piece of wet string can be made to work.
Broadband uses higher frequencies which do require some sophisitication in the transmission line. Twisted pair is a transmission line that uses pairs of wires to carry each signal. By twisting each pair together it becomes much better at rejecting noise and can carry higher frequencies for further (there are lots of complicated electromagnetical reasons for this). One of the deciding factors about whether you can get broadband at your home is how good the cabling is between you and the exchange - if it's old-fashioned straight wires you're usually out of luck.
I found one small thing. I can't copy the link because it doesn't seem to have one...I don't understand all this new coding. :)
But, in the beaded dress section, just a hair past halfway down, there is a close-up of the edge of the dress. If I click on that to make the picture bigger, I get a "page not found."
Fascinating tutorial. You make it look easy, Kate.
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