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March 20, 2008

Fixed Width v Stretch to Fit Websites

Writing about web page http://unipole.co.uk/default.aspx

Many website templates and free website builders, such as Google’s Page Builder & Free Parking’s WizzSites have a fixed width for your website. This has the advantage of fixing your websites look. To ensure this for most viewers screen resolutions these are normally kept quite narrow.

The MS Office Live SB website builder defaults to 780px wide. You can enable their ‘Advanced Design Features’ and this allows you to select 100% where the webpage will ‘strech to fit’. I quite like this approach since we cannot determine the shape that the browser window will be in the user’s screen. An example has been created by Lee of Unipole with a three column design using 100%. His site’s minimum width is set by the 941px logo but his design manufacture & finishing page is slightly wider due to the picture’s he used.

Another good example of the ‘strech to fit’ approach are these Warwick Blogs especially when used with pictures that ‘float’ using BlogBuilder.

Robert McGonigle : 20 Mar 2008 11:21 | Tags: Free Websites Msolsb Website Templates | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem

March 04, 2008

'Shooting' Gun Stands on the Enville Estate

Writing about web page http://gun-stands.co.uk

Last Thursday, before I attended the Mike Smith Memorial Mass, see previous entry, I had an early morning appointment on the Enville Estate, South Staffordshire. I found myself in parkland, with sheep & two fine hunters, taking digital photos for the latest CCM startup, Gun-Stands.co.uk .

Keith Woodall was on the same Enville Estate, for a shoot when he first observed the problem faced by many shooting parties; “I hated to see fine matched pairs of shotguns in the wet grass”. He designed the Stand and manufactured it with the help of local business GRP Building Products . Finalising the website details a packing specialist measured up the stand for the shipping containers. He was a clay pidgeon club member who immediately saw another potential customer. “I have to take my son along to hold the guns upright as noone wants to put their guns down on the rough concrete”.

This is the latest web-site I have created using MS Office Live Small Business or MSOLSB to its friends! These sites, with a free properly hosted domain name, are simple to set up but support all the correct search engine optimisation support. The only area I am thinking of improving is the site map which is not to the full SiteMaps.org standard. But it does have an effective site map as standard and it will be easy to upgrade this to the XML based standard.

Robert McGonigle : 04 Mar 2008 21:08 | Tags: Enville Estate Gun Stands Msolsb Musket Site Maps | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem