RE: [OT] Website styling

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxx>]

As long as it's plain black text on a white background, maybe a frame or 2
for a menu then I'm happy :-)

Seriously, a lot will depend on your intended audience, a simple design
will
(hopefully) load quicker, whereas a dynamic site will be dependant on the
complexity of the underlying database / php code. If your ISP's server is
up
to the job, then there probably will be little difference, but if the site
traffic increases or the traffic on another of the ISP's client's using the
same shared server as you, then the added overhead of the dynamic site
could
slow things down. If your audience is dialup then this may not be noticed,
but having broadband I do seem to notice that some busy dynamic sites build
content slowly.

The site I'm currently working on has a simple top, mid left, mid centre,
mid right and bottom frames with a menu in the left & right frame, to
display a welcome page with menus, then hides the bottom and either of the
left / right frames to display sub menu & content.

You might want to consider <DIV> tags rather than frames, but that
again is
personal preference.

I guess I'd better add my own site to my to-do list now I'm also forced to
change hosting companies :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve.cooper@xxxxxxx [mailto:steve.cooper@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 June 2003 09:05
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Website styling
>
>
>
> As with many others I am currently in the process of moving my site
> Gadgetshed.co.uk to a different hosting company.
>
> While doing this I thought it an ideal time to review the layout
> and format
> of the site and wanted to gauge opinion on style.  A lot of people use
> Php-Nuke or a similar setup which works well for news type site like
> Automated Home but personally I sometimes find it hard to find the
content
> I want on a reference material type site.
>
> So the question is do people prefer the php news and topics style
sites or
> a more traditional pages, frames and side menus type site like say Ian
> Bird's or Keith's. (Sorry guys just the first two I thought of)
>
> S.
>
>
>
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