Colin MacDonald
@Glassboy active 2 months, 1 week ago-
Colin MacDonald posted an update in the group
No Frills Networking News and Suggestions: 9 months, 3 weeks agoDo take a look at the collection of photos of Stourbridge, taken by local man Harry Cartwright – 50 years ago! Absolutely fascinating if you are local to the town – http://www.stourbridge.com
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Colin MacDonald posted an update in the group
No Frills Networking News and Suggestions: 9 months, 3 weeks agoJust to let you know that Julie of Kato Star Events, who won the free advert on http://www.stourbridge.com in the raffle at the last meeting, her advert is already number one in Google for the search phrases ”stourbridge corporate events” and ”stourbridge corporate event organisers”
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Colin MacDonald posted an update: 1 year, 3 months ago
Finally, the new http://www.stourbridge.com is live! It’s got a new look, new content and new structure, the photography alone took hours. It went live last Friday and the visitor rate is up 50% already! Just got to make sure rankings in Google remain as good as they were on the old site. Feedback welcome and it’s a great place to advertise if your…[Read more]
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Colin MacDonald posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 6 months ago
In reply to: Glassboy posted an update in the group Web Design & New Media Marketing: Getting on well with the completely revamped version of http://www.stourbridge.com, but with over 1000 pages its taking an eternity! ViewI feel guilty now for asking! Many thanks Richard, just looked at the code, that’s what goes in the html page but what about the code within the Flash movie itself? For example, on the pub guide there will be 60 buttons, one for each pub, surely there needs to be code to launch the Lightbox window when the visitor clicks on one, like the one in…[Read more]
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Colin MacDonald posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 6 months ago
In reply to: Glassboy posted an update in the group Web Design & New Media Marketing: Getting on well with the completely revamped version of http://www.stourbridge.com, but with over 1000 pages its taking an eternity! ViewThanks Richard, yes, the pub section is being updated, got to get the priorities right! It’s not too bad to update because there’s only about 60 pubs in a one mile radius of Stourbridge and they don’t change that often, the real pain is the town centre shops section, hundreds of them and they do change as you know. You quite rightly mention…[Read more]
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Colin MacDonald posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 6 months ago
In reply to: Glassboy posted an update in the group Web Design & New Media Marketing: Getting on well with the completely revamped version of http://www.stourbridge.com, but with over 1000 pages its taking an eternity! ViewThanks Richard, I’m well aware of the shortcomings of table layouts and the benfits of the likes of CSS and divs, but this site was first put together in the late 90′s and I don’t think CSS even existed then! Certainly you couldn’t reliably use divs because of compatibility issues. The site is deliberately quirky but the new version is going…[Read more]
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Glassboy posted an update in the group
Web Design & New Media Marketing: 1 year, 6 months agoGetting on well with the completely revamped version of http://www.stourbridge.com, but with over 1000 pages its taking an eternity!
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Web Design & New Media Marketing 1 year, 6 months ago
If you move away from a table based design, and start using semantically coded divs and CSS, you could update the entire site by editing one file.
Should the site be even more complex, using includes (either, (asp).net, php, or even shtml) should make editing ”sections” such as footers, headers and/or side bars even easier.
Thanks Richard, I’m well aware of the shortcomings of table layouts and the benfits of the likes of CSS and divs, but this site was first put together in the late 90′s and I don’t think CSS even existed then! Certainly you couldn’t reliably use divs because of compatibility issues. The site is deliberately quirky but the new version is going…[Read more]
I remember those days, Dreamweaver introduced “layers” which were a precursor to divs, and to be blunt, an absolute nightmare!
I have to disagree with the mass produced bit – I find that’s due to people using templates, as opposed to the fault of the technology, but not everyone is willing to put the time and effort in to hand coding, which I…[Read more]
Thanks Richard, yes, the pub section is being updated, got to get the priorities right! It’s not too bad to update because there’s only about 60 pubs in a one mile radius of Stourbridge and they don’t change that often, the real pain is the town centre shops section, hundreds of them and they do change as you know. You quite rightly mention…[Read more]
Looks simple enough to me – I’ll just have a quick go at it:
10 minutes later
That example didn’t work fantastically, I semi wrote my own using the same technique, you can find an example here – feel free to steal the code:
http://development.barringtonmedia.co.uk/flashtest/
Just remember to link to the lightbox file with this…[Read more]
I feel guilty now for asking! Many thanks Richard, just looked at the code, that’s what goes in the html page but what about the code within the Flash movie itself? For example, on the pub guide there will be 60 buttons, one for each pub, surely there needs to be code to launch the Lightbox window when the visitor clicks on one, like the one in…[Read more]
Email me at richard AT barringtonmedia.co.uk – but the code in flash is this:
getURL(”javascript:callFancy(’linktopage.html’);”);
It’s important to get the HTML right else the pop up won’t work – though I normally wouldn’t embed a flash file like that (I always use SWFObject).
And of course your need a JS file with the following:
function callFancy(my_href) {
var j1 = document.getElementById(“hiddenclicker”);
j1.href = my_href;
$(‘#hiddenclicker’).trigger(‘click’);
}
$(document).ready(function(){
$(“a.overlay-flash”).fancybox({
‘width’ : ’75%’,
‘height’ : ’75%’,
‘autoScale’ :…[Read more]