Website update - feedback?

[Brewer]

Just completed the umpteenth makeover of the band website. I'd like your reactions, good or bad!

Thanks!

www.tempermental.com (http://www.tempermental.com)

[cSuttle]

Web-site will not load here. I'm using AOL and DSL and waited about 30 seconds. Tried twice. Who are you hosted by? That response time is not good, you might wish to see if you host is having problem or if you need a new host.

[Big Al]

yup.. me too. seems to be a wee bit temperamental!! :D

[Brewer]

Thanks. My ISP is rather fragile.

[Brewer]

Thanks, John.

[cSuttle]

It finally worked. Fifth try. Love the logo. I thought the menu was WAY TOO SMALL. I almost felt the site because I didn't notice it for a while. Beside that, I like it.

[Brewer]

Thanks, Cliff. I cranked the menu text up a notch.

[jkornel]

The site looks good, and worked good for me.

But I too saw the LOGO and thought you were a modern rock or nu-metal band. Then I saw your picture and thought why are these old guys(no offence, I'm an old guy too) trying to play nu-metal. Then I figured it out.

But all in all nice site.

How as that cafexpress.com worked out for you guys and merchandise? My band has been considering them for our stuff and I am really curious how it is, and how the quality of the products is?

[cSuttle]

Thanks, Cliff. I cranked the menu text up a notch.
Much Better.

[Brewer]

How as that cafexpress.com worked out for you guys and merchandise? My band has been considering them for our stuff and I am really curious how it is, and how the quality of the products is?
Well, it's free to set up a "store". Cafepress uses good quality t-shirts (in white only). The printing quality varies depending on how large you make your image. We finally started using .PNG images that were approaching a megabyte and that prints OK. Small images look kinda sparse. I wish they offered black as well as white.

[Peter]

Looks pretty good! One oddity is that the links - for example on your bio page - show up in tiny, eye-strain-o fonts, smaller than the other text.
Just checked, and this happens in IE and in Safari.

[Ripcom]

Every thing worked alot quicker today.

I checked out the Canyon thing as well and had a listern to Crystal Sunrise. Very mellow. Nice.

Your Wendy spells her name the same as mine, "Dixson" with an S which was nice to see.

Keep up the good work

:cool:

[Brewer]

Thanks, that goes back a few decades!

[Brewer]

Looks pretty good! One oddity is that the links - for example on your bio page - show up in tiny, eye-strain-o fonts, smaller than the other text.
Just checked, and this happens in IE and in Safari.
The way browsers interpret things is very interesting. Those fonts are the same size as the rest of the text on my system (windows, IE).

Using IE under your View menu is your Text Size set to Medium? I'm curious as to why that might be happening.

Thanks for all the feedback. I do appreciate it!

[dwman_2000]

The way browsers interpret things is very interesting. Those fonts are the same size as the rest of the text on my system (windows, IE).

Using IE under your View menu is your Text Size set to Medium? I'm curious as to why that might be happening.

Thanks for all the feedback. I do appreciate it!
You should use a CSS (cascading style sheet) to "lock down" all your font sizes, colors, etc. CSS's are a mid-to-advanced level design tool. If you're not familiar with them, email me and I'll be happy to help you out (I do this for a living).

[Brewer]

Yeah, I agree with you about CSS. The entire site is actually built using a single externally-called CSS file and the font tag is pretty much non-existent on this site.

Unfortunately Netscape and IE do not appear to implement CSS in the same way. This seems to be the root of the font display issues. I am also using some classes describing font behavior for use on light and dark backgrounds that may be kicking up some issues too.

If you have any time to take a peek at it that would be great! Please don't laugh at my "spaghetti"!

The style sheet is here: http://67.171.156.90/images/style.txt

In production use it is actually named "style.css" but I changed it to .txt to make the copy easier to view.

[Peter]

Using IE under your View menu is your Text Size set to Medium? I'm curious as to why that might be happening.
Neither IE (for Mac) or Safari has a "Text Size" menu item - just a text zoom choice, which is set to 100%, and in preferences default font size is 16. Fiddling with the font preferences hasn't changed the size of the link font.
I'm going to have a look at it with a Windows machine and see what happens.

[dwman_2000]

[QUOTE=Brewer]Yeah, I agree with you about CSS. The entire site is actually built using a single externally-called CSS file and the font tag is pretty much non-existent on this site.QUOTE]

Brewer,

You need to assign the CSS font styles to your text paragraphs. After you do that, it will "lock down" the font sizes, colors, etc. Do you know how to do this?
If not, email me and I'll walk you through it.

[Brewer]

Do you know how to do this?
If not, email me and I'll walk you through it.
e-mail sent!

thanks!!!