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post #1 of 8
4/6/09 at 2:37pm
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I'm putting together a website dedicated to reviewing European cult films on DVD. I've bought the domain, and am trying to piece the site together with my limited design knowledge. I've downloaded the free version of netobjects to help with the process. I have a few minor problems I need help working through.

1. I've designed the layout of the site using one of the provided templates for the menu. On the actual pages of the site the buttons, and everything look clean, but when I preview the page, the text on the buttons is blurry. How can I fix that?

2. I added some pages at the beginning of the process for my initial reviews, when I preview the review pages they are given buttons, and links at the bottom of the screen. I simply want to make a list in the center of the page alphabetically of the reviews, and not have them as part of the menu. How would I go about doing that?

3. Everytime I create a new page, I have to start over with the layout. How would I simply copy the layout of the last page over to the next? So I don't have to continually repeat the process. Since the primary use of the website is DVD reviews, I figured I could create one webpage template, and carry it over for all reviews.
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post #2 of 8
4/23/09 at 11:27pm
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I just launched the site www.eurocultav.com, but it looks like total crap on every computer that's not my own. I know no one replied to this in the first place, but can anyone tell me why the fonts are different, and the text isn't formatted correctly?
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post #3 of 8
4/23/09 at 11:34pm
I've never used netobjects but that does look pretty horrible. For what you are doing, I wonder if you shouldn't use something like wordpress (I know, it's for blogs mainly) and create your site that way. You can grab a nice looking template from the dozens of ones that exist on the theme wordpress sites.

What do you mean the text is blurry, doesn't look like that to me. The font for the text looks kind of nasty, I think you are using Courier which makes it look like a typewritter.

If you don't want to use something like wordpress, maybe another program like Dreamweaver would be better. But again, I've never used netobjects so don't know how good or bad it is.
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post #4 of 8
4/24/09 at 12:31am
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It's not blurry, it's just not lined up properly. For example the Eurocult DVD and Blu-Ray reviews is supposed to be on one line, while the reviews are supposed to get 1 line each. I used echelon as the font, but that doesn't show. I don't have much in the way of web design skills, so I don't expect it to be anything special visually, but I would at least like it to look organized.

I have previewed the site multiple times before posting it, and it looked good in netobjects preview, and on my home computer in firefox, chrome, and IE.
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post #5 of 8
4/24/09 at 12:51am
I do a bit of website design. You are honestly probably best off looking for blog hosting at this point. Wordpress would probably be your best bet -- it's got a huge community behind it and tons of templates available.

One hint -- don't use Echelon, because it will only sometimes show up on machines that have it. You should use a standard font, like Arial or Verdana for sans serif, or Times for serif.
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post #6 of 8
4/24/09 at 2:21am
I use my own shell account to host my blog with wordpress but yes, you are better off looking at a hosting solution that already has it.

You can find all kinds of themes that look nice;
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
http://topwpthemes.com/
http://www.templatesbrowser.com/wordpress-themes/

The themes are not that hard to customize, in most cases you can probably find a theme you like and change little things like the site banner and navigation bar.

Remember you can also create "static" pages in wordpress too, but I find that even for movie reviews it's not that horrible to use a blog post as the review. Makes your site look more active than having a page that just links to static pages with reviews (this makes the front of the site kind of stale).
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post #7 of 8
4/24/09 at 5:46pm
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I think the font was the issue. I have switched the font to courier baltic which is more common.
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post #8 of 8
4/13/12 at 5:06am

No don't think its because of font...

 

Zeroillusion did you checked whether you have applied template for all the pages or it is applied only on home page or main page??

 

Can you post link of your site?

 

 

simultaneous interpretation

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