Tell me if it works!

[Robin]

Since I had to buy me a digital camera for work last week I have been playing with it ever since and used it to set up my first attempt at a web page.

Now please remember I am not a computer buff, nerd, expert or even remotely informed about doing this and what I have now is after 'n' million failed attempts to get it on line!

Please can you tell me if it works and is it worth continuing (SOME people on here are forbidden to answer that, not that it will make any difference).

I don't know how to be smart and put a pretty blue link in so this is the URL:-

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.white3/THE WHITEHOUSE WEBSITE.htm

Goobledegook to me but it seems to find it.......

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[tome]

Robin

It works!

I'll take a better look when I get a mo'

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[bigmart]

Re: Yes. It works

The boat looks fabulous. I suspect that you are justifyably proud.

Two minor points:

1)When I saw The Whitehouse Site, I was reminded of a dubious Magazine that was published many years ago. ( may be the cause of some ribbing coming your way).

2) Perhaps a little less detail regarding the equipment/Location might be a good idea otherwise could be a good shopping list for some of our more light fingered bretheren.

Other than that keep going with the site I will visit regularly to see how your getting on. You might even spur me into copying your idea.

Good Luck

Martin

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[Robin]

Re: Yes. It works

Ta muchly, yes I did think about the light fingered brigade, but she is bristling with alarms! I'm a bit nervous about changing it and losing it since I'm not sure what actually made it work after so many failed attempts, I may do that as I add more pics though.

What I need now is Quay Sails to fit the new canvas work and then get some proper pics with the sun out, these and a few others were all I have so far on digital, and down below is still really in 'workshop' mode.

Still she's not bad for a 16 year old AWB though is she (the boat, SWMBO is a bit older).

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[bigmart]

Re: I gather

from youre last comment that you are either a very brave man or have a suicide wish. Careful or you may not be sailing much longer.

Good Lick

Martin

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[Talbot]

Did you fit your SSB yourself or have it fitted? Interested in ATU (type and fit) and ground system.

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[BlueSkyNick]

Well done, Robin, yes it works. However, it takes chuffin' ages for the pictures to download over a dial up connection. ie 5 minutes for the first 4 shots. I suspect this is because your new camera has 5meg pixels or more which makes them very large files although the pictures look very clear. There may be a way of reducing them, but I'm no expert either.

To make your site appear as a link, you have to put
(url) at the beginning and (/url) at the end, but using square brackets instead. Then it looks like this http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.white3/THE WHITEHOUSE WEBSITE.htm and can be clicked.

Alternatively you can put (url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.white3/THE WHITEHOUSE WEBSITE.htm) like this (/url) again using square brackets and appears LIKE THIS! and can be clicked.

Good, eh?

This is all under the Help option, Mark Up tags.

Good luck, and we will look out for you on the water !

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[Robin]

Cool ta Nick! I'll print that off.

The pics load very quickly for me on a dial up at 56 whatevers. The camera has 6 million pixels but was set on 1 million for those pictures, the file sizes are around 110kb per pic. (originals were nearer 320kb each), I tried manipulating them (actually to brighten up a dull day) but then they wouldn't load to the website, kept telling me some edit.... files were missing?

Robin

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[Twister_Ken]

Oh dear

For me the images don't load.

I note BigNick's comment about image sizes. If he's reight, try to buy, beg, borrrow or steal an Adobe application called ImageReady which automatically optimises images for web display, making the file sizes as small as poss within parameters you set.

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[Robin]

The SSB is an ancient ICOM M600 with a backstay aerial and an ATU 130 (I think) tuner, both came fitted with the boat and date back to the AZAB in 1996 (previous owners). We have one of the special bronze ground plates on the hull plus this is connected to one big S/S watertank, the 'P' bracket, the keel and I think also the engine.

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[MainlySteam]

Even works from 12,000 miles away Robin.

Congratulations and regards

John

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[1114C]

They will load quickly for you cos they are in your cache

A fine looking site though

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[jimbouy]

Chances are that the images are actually loading from your hard disc. In my early days of www designing, strictly for pleasure, I was always caught by that. Clear your cache and re point your browser at it. Even on my ADSL it's a touch slow but a nice site.

IMO for what it's worth a www site needs to be simple and effective. Viewers want to to provide the information they need with out any frills and delay. Which your does.

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[BrendanS]

The reason they load quickly for you is a technical one - they are already stored in your local cache on your computer. For those of us who have to download them from scratch, they take a lot longer.

Now a few have downloaded, I've had a look, and they aren't all that big really, so it must be the server hosting them is a little slow.

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[HenryB]

Robin,

The images don't load on my system but it is probably due to my firewall stopping the "Active X" bits from working.
What "Active X" bits - well it appears that you use MS Word or other Office product to set up the pages and, true to MS form, they always complicate everything and add bits that you don't really need. If your version of Word has a save option "Web Site Filtered" then I suggest that you use this because it produces much leaner HTML.

All IMHO of course.

Good luck,

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[Robin]

Re: Oh dear

I just deleted the cache and yep they do take ages, the little flag thingy on Explorer doesn't move either so it looks like it is stuck, but they do load in the end!

I think what I have to do is reduce the pics size away from where the originals are, saving them to a different file. I made the page using MS Word and reduced the pics within there to 25% but then they didn't load and the pic space came up with the little death cross in the top left corner.

This is too complicated for my pickled brain.

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[Robin]

Yes, see reply below it was in MS Word

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[Robin]

Thanks Brendan (and others) I will need to do some fine tuning. At least I found out now before spending a lot of hours more, if I had added more pics it could have been the slowest site on record.

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[Robin]

Yes it does I will try that option, thanks.

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[Talbot]

I have just purchased an elderly but very little used Icom M700 which I will be fitting, so am trying to get all the information straight in my head. Do you use yours at all (i.e. weather maps, e-mail etc) and if so what do you use to get the data to your laptop?

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