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It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the
www.hillhousenursery.com -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
New web site - finally....
Sacha wrote:
It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Lovely site. However, I wish I hadn't looked! Such beautiful and unusual plants. Being used to the run of the mill stuff in my local nurseries, I'm stunned. I might need a second mortgage :) -- Pete C London UK |
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On Jul 21, 7:40 pm, Sacha wrote:
It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon It is fabulous Sacha, I just wish I could place an order for some hardy plants in France, I wonder if the postage would be extortionate? Well done to you, Ray and Matthew. p.s. wonderful cakes, do you do mail order in the UK for these? Judith |
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On 21/7/08 20:27, in article ,
"AriesVal" wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:40:12 +0100, Sacha wrote: It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Well done:) From what I've seen so far it looks very good, brilliant in fact :) Thanks, Val. Time you paid us a visit from 'oop north'. ;-)) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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On 21/7/08 21:10, in article
, "Judith in France" wrote: On Jul 21, 7:40 pm, Sacha wrote: It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon It is fabulous Sacha, I just wish I could place an order for some hardy plants in France, I wonder if the postage would be extortionate? Well done to you, Ray and Matthew. p.s. wonderful cakes, do you do mail order in the UK for these? Judith I don't think you could send the cakes, Judith. In a sense, they're nothing to do with us at all. I just think Joanna's work is so fabulous that I wanted to show it on our site to give her some well-deserved publicity for her wonderful part time work. If anyone wants to order one of her cakes they'd have to be in a position to discuss it with her and pick it up personally. She learned flower arranging so as to learn more about flowers and how to make them and arrange them, in sugar. Every single one of those roses and the ivy leaves on the cakes are hand made in sugar icing by her. As to sending to Europe, I really don't know costs yet because we're just making an early start here but it will be something we will be looking at, certainly. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
New web site - finally....
"Sacha" wrote in message ... It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Looks good, Sacha - I wish you well with your mail order. Chris S |
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Sacha wrote:
It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Congratulations Sacha (and family). Question about the Wedding Cake tree. I list this in my plant list as Cornus controversa 'Variegata', as does the old RHS reference I have. You list it as C. alternifolia 'Variegata', under the Pagoda Dogwood rather than the Giant Dogwood. I have a C. alternifolia 'Winter Orange' that was sold to me under the name C. controversa, then the nursery changed the name in their catalog to go along with the prevailing usage. I wonder if the Wedding Cake tree has gone through a similar reclassification, and I should maybe change it in my garden records... I also grow C. alternifolia 'Argentia' (which is slower growing than controversa), but it is clearly a different (and finer leaved) plant. But both lovely in their own way. cheers, -E P.S. one comment, if one could search for available plants by genus it would be even easier to navigate the site. |
New web site - finally....
"Sacha" wrote in message ... It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Looks good - but... I see you're using something called RapidWeaver which I haven't heard of before (I don't use a Mac) and if that's the code it generates I'm not impressed. Why all the JavaScript? What happens if I turn it off - not a lot - I can't see the Flash slideshow but not much else as far as I can see. Why is the text all PNGs? That is not at all accessible which in this day and age is a big black mark! Sorry to put a dampener on things :-( |
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On 22/7/08 15:04, in article , "Emery
Davis" wrote: Sacha wrote: It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Congratulations Sacha (and family). Question about the Wedding Cake tree. I list this in my plant list as Cornus controversa 'Variegata', as does the old RHS reference I have. You list it as C. alternifolia 'Variegata', under the Pagoda Dogwood rather than the Giant Dogwood. I have a C. alternifolia 'Winter Orange' that was sold to me under the name C. controversa, then the nursery changed the name in their catalog to go along with the prevailing usage. I wonder if the Wedding Cake tree has gone through a similar reclassification, and I should maybe change it in my garden records... I also grow C. alternifolia 'Argentia' (which is slower growing than controversa), but it is clearly a different (and finer leaved) plant. But both lovely in their own way. cheers, -E We've seen both called the wedding cake tree so it's anyone's guess which is truly which. We're certainly open to correction! P.S. one comment, if one could search for available plants by genus it would be even easier to navigate the site. If the plant catalogue online gets bigger we may get to that but so far, people seem to like to browse, rather as they do in the Nursery itself. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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On 22/7/08 19:07, in article ,
"gavin" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ... It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Looks good - but... I see you're using something called RapidWeaver which I haven't heard of before (I don't use a Mac) and if that's the code it generates I'm not impressed. Why all the JavaScript? What happens if I turn it off - not a lot - I can't see the Flash slideshow but not much else as far as I can see. Why is the text all PNGs? That is not at all accessible which in this day and age is a big black mark! Sorry to put a dampener on things :-( Not a dampener at all. I'm happy to pass this on to the guru. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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On Jul 21, 10:49 pm, Sacha wrote:
On 21/7/08 21:10, in article , "Judith in France" wrote: On Jul 21, 7:40 pm, Sacha wrote: It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon It is fabulous Sacha, I just wish I could place an order for some hardy plants in France, I wonder if the postage would be extortionate? Well done to you, Ray and Matthew. p.s. wonderful cakes, do you do mail order in the UK for these? Judith I don't think you could send the cakes, Judith. In a sense, they're nothing to do with us at all. I just think Joanna's work is so fabulous that I wanted to show it on our site to give her some well-deserved publicity for her wonderful part time work. If anyone wants to order one of her cakes they'd have to be in a position to discuss it with her and pick it up personally. She learned flower arranging so as to learn more about flowers and how to make them and arrange them, in sugar. Every single one of those roses and the ivy leaves on the cakes are hand made in sugar icing by her. As to sending to Europe, I really don't know costs yet because we're just making an early start here but it will be something we will be looking at, certainly. -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Sacha, I didn't see Ray's Nemisia? Judith |
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On 22/7/08 11:31, in article , "Chris S"
wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ... It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Looks good, Sacha - I wish you well with your mail order. Chris S Many thanks, Chris. I'm sure we'll keep tinkering but it's nice to have it up and running. Thanks to everyone for their comments and emails - mainly positive but all suggestions, adverse or otherwise have been taken onboard and passed along. Many go right over my head so I can't otherwise comment! Thank you all. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 22/7/08 19:07, in article , "gavin" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ... It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Looks good - but... I see you're using something called RapidWeaver which I haven't heard of before (I don't use a Mac) and if that's the code it generates I'm not impressed. Why all the JavaScript? What happens if I turn it off - not a lot - I can't see the Flash slideshow but not much else as far as I can see. Why is the text all PNGs? That is not at all accessible which in this day and age is a big black mark! Sorry to put a dampener on things :-( Not a dampener at all. I'm happy to pass this on to the guru. Thanks, Sacha. I know this is strictly speaking off-topic but I'd be interested in his/her comments. |
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On 22/7/08 22:30, in article
, "Judith in France" wrote: On Jul 21, 10:49 pm, Sacha wrote: On 21/7/08 21:10, in article , "Judith in France" wrote: On Jul 21, 7:40 pm, Sacha wrote: It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon It is fabulous Sacha, I just wish I could place an order for some hardy plants in France, I wonder if the postage would be extortionate? Well done to you, Ray and Matthew. p.s. wonderful cakes, do you do mail order in the UK for these? Judith I don't think you could send the cakes, Judith. In a sense, they're nothing to do with us at all. I just think Joanna's work is so fabulous that I wanted to show it on our site to give her some well-deserved publicity for her wonderful part time work. If anyone wants to order one of her cakes they'd have to be in a position to discuss it with her and pick it up personally. She learned flower arranging so as to learn more about flowers and how to make them and arrange them, in sugar. Every single one of those roses and the ivy leaves on the cakes are hand made in sugar icing by her. As to sending to Europe, I really don't know costs yet because we're just making an early start here but it will be something we will be looking at, certainly. -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Sacha, I didn't see Ray's Nemisia? Judith We sell that here in 9cm pots and sometimes pot it on to 1 or 2l pots. It's so widely available here and worldwide (other than Australasia) that I don't think we'd expect anyone to want it mail order. But we do hope people will enquire if they don't see something they really want that we might have. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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On 22/7/08 22:44, in article ,
"gavin" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ... On 22/7/08 19:07, in article , "gavin" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ... It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Looks good - but... I see you're using something called RapidWeaver which I haven't heard of before (I don't use a Mac) and if that's the code it generates I'm not impressed. Why all the JavaScript? What happens if I turn it off - not a lot - I can't see the Flash slideshow but not much else as far as I can see. Why is the text all PNGs? That is not at all accessible which in this day and age is a big black mark! Sorry to put a dampener on things :-( Not a dampener at all. I'm happy to pass this on to the guru. Thanks, Sacha. I know this is strictly speaking off-topic but I'd be interested in his/her comments. I can email you with them if I have his permission to do so. I don't think I'd be comfortable to do that unless he wanted to throw it open to discussion. I should probably say at this point - and should have done so before - that part of the reason for using RapidWeaver is that it's easy for the amateurs to use, too. We don't want something that I have to call him in for every time I want to change a photo or update some text. This is a new venture and small beginnings for us. If it develops and gets bigger we have always agreed that we might look at other methods and programs. I've sent your comments on and I'm genuinely grateful for them. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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Sacha wrote:
On 22/7/08 15:04, in article , "Emery Davis" wrote: Sacha wrote: It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Congratulations Sacha (and family). Question about the Wedding Cake tree. I list this in my plant list as Cornus controversa 'Variegata', as does the old RHS reference I have. You list it as C. alternifolia 'Variegata', under the Pagoda Dogwood rather than the Giant Dogwood. I have a C. alternifolia 'Winter Orange' that was sold to me under the name C. controversa, then the nursery changed the name in their catalog to go along with the prevailing usage. I wonder if the Wedding Cake tree has gone through a similar reclassification, and I should maybe change it in my garden records... I also grow C. alternifolia 'Argentia' (which is slower growing than controversa), but it is clearly a different (and finer leaved) plant. But both lovely in their own way. cheers, -E We've seen both called the wedding cake tree so it's anyone's guess which is truly which. We're certainly open to correction! Verified that at least to the RHS Horticultural Database, C. controversa 'Variegata' (which it looks to me is what you've got, although hard to be sure from the pic) is called the Wedding Cake Tree. This would also explain the faster than expected growth. For C. alternifolia 'Variegata' they list this as synonymous with 'Argentea', with a common name of "Silver Pagoda Dogwood." I think this finer leaved (and slower growing, reputed difficult although I've had no problems) plant is not what you've got in the picture. Just one opinion, worth no more or less than the paper it's printed on! ;) cheers, -E |
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"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 22/7/08 22:44, in article , "gavin" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ... On 22/7/08 19:07, in article , "gavin" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ... It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Looks good - but... I see you're using something called RapidWeaver which I haven't heard of before (I don't use a Mac) and if that's the code it generates I'm not impressed. Why all the JavaScript? What happens if I turn it off - not a lot - I can't see the Flash slideshow but not much else as far as I can see. Why is the text all PNGs? That is not at all accessible which in this day and age is a big black mark! Sorry to put a dampener on things :-( Not a dampener at all. I'm happy to pass this on to the guru. Thanks, Sacha. I know this is strictly speaking off-topic but I'd be interested in his/her comments. I can email you with them if I have his permission to do so. I don't think I'd be comfortable to do that unless he wanted to throw it open to discussion. I should probably say at this point - and should have done so before - that part of the reason for using RapidWeaver is that it's easy for the amateurs to use, too. We don't want something that I have to call him in for every time I want to change a photo or update some text. This is a new venture and small beginnings for us. If it develops and gets bigger we have always agreed that we might look at other methods and programs. I've sent your comments on and I'm genuinely grateful for them. I fully understand and respect that, Sacha. Whatever tool people use to get the job done fine as far as I'm concerned - with a couple of provisos. Firstly the code should validate - however, I understand that most graphical editors don't generate "clean" code. But far more important than that are accessibility issues. I truly believe that all web designers/webmasters (call us what you will) have a huge moral responsibility in this area. I'll get off my soap box now :-) |
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On 23/7/08 00:01, in article , "Emery
Davis" wrote: Sacha wrote: On 22/7/08 15:04, in article , "Emery Davis" wrote: Sacha wrote: It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Congratulations Sacha (and family). Question about the Wedding Cake tree. I list this in my plant list as Cornus controversa 'Variegata', as does the old RHS reference I have. You list it as C. alternifolia 'Variegata', under the Pagoda Dogwood rather than the Giant Dogwood. I have a C. alternifolia 'Winter Orange' that was sold to me under the name C. controversa, then the nursery changed the name in their catalog to go along with the prevailing usage. I wonder if the Wedding Cake tree has gone through a similar reclassification, and I should maybe change it in my garden records... I also grow C. alternifolia 'Argentia' (which is slower growing than controversa), but it is clearly a different (and finer leaved) plant. But both lovely in their own way. cheers, -E We've seen both called the wedding cake tree so it's anyone's guess which is truly which. We're certainly open to correction! Verified that at least to the RHS Horticultural Database, C. controversa 'Variegata' (which it looks to me is what you've got, although hard to be sure from the pic) is called the Wedding Cake Tree. This would also explain the faster than expected growth. For C. alternifolia 'Variegata' they list this as synonymous with 'Argentea', with a common name of "Silver Pagoda Dogwood." I think this finer leaved (and slower growing, reputed difficult although I've had no problems) plant is not what you've got in the picture. Just one opinion, worth no more or less than the paper it's printed on! ;) cheers, -E It's all worth something, Emery. I'll try to remember to take a close up and put it on here. Life is a bit full at present but I will try to get to that. We're absolutely open to information and opinion because this isn't one we grew ourselves. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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On 21/07/08 19:40, Sacha wrote:
It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Your site needs some serious work to make it generally usable. You will get a lot of good advice if you ask the guys over at the alt.html.critique newsgroup. |
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On Jul 23, 8:56 am, Ed ex@directory wrote:
On 21/07/08 19:40, Sacha wrote: It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Your site needs some serious work to make it generally usable. You will get a lot of good advice if you ask the guys over at the alt.html.critique newsgroup. Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith |
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snip Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith and so say all of us Sacha friends and family, great site and very tempting. I cant have any more plants as we are hoping to be moving to Scotland as soon as we sell this one - anyone want a house in sunny Gloucestershire ? - however I will be picking your brains as and when we get to where we are going :-) kate |
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On 23/7/08 11:52, in article net, "Kate
Morgan" wrote: snip Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith and so say all of us Sacha friends and family, great site and very tempting. I cant have any more plants as we are hoping to be moving to Scotland as soon as we sell this one - anyone want a house in sunny Gloucestershire ? - however I will be picking your brains as and when we get to where we are going :-) kate I've had some very helpful email with regard the technical aspects of the site, optimising its viewing etc. I'm extremely grateful for that, as well as for the kind comments from the less techie types. ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
we have just completed our web site as well, and i can fully agree that it has been responsible for many headaches this end!!! I have looked at your site and it is good our site is www.carreglefn-nurseries.co.uk
All the best with your business Kathryn Carreglefn Nurseries Quote:
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On 23/7/08 15:38, in article ,
"Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:30:11 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 11:52, in article net, "Kate Morgan" wrote: snip Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith and so say all of us Sacha friends and family, great site and very tempting. I cant have any more plants as we are hoping to be moving to Scotland as soon as we sell this one - anyone want a house in sunny Gloucestershire ? - however I will be picking your brains as and when we get to where we are going :-) kate I've had some very helpful email with regard the technical aspects of the site, optimising its viewing etc. I'm extremely grateful for that, as well as for the kind comments from the less techie types. ;-) Your little helper? A lurking expert little helper. ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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On 23/07/08 16:26, Sacha wrote:
On 23/7/08 15:38, in article , "Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:30:11 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 11:52, in article net, "Kate Morgan" wrote: snip Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith I strongly urge Sacha to submit the site for critical review at both: alt.html alt.html.critique It will be interesting to see the results if they dare do that!!! The site does not work under my pc configuration. Other potential customers will find the same. And because it is a business site then it needs to work effectively across all common web browsers otherwise you cut off a lot of potential trade. This isn't the place to discusses the technicalities of web page design and I'm not going there. But if I spent money to people to build this website, then I would wont a refund! However, I'd rather talk about how runner beans and early potatoes are doing this year! LOL!! Ed |
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On 23/07/08 17:45, Martin wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:22:18 +0100, Ed ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 16:26, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 15:38, in article , "Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:30:11 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 11:52, in article net, "Kate Morgan" wrote: snip Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith I strongly urge Sacha to submit the site for critical review at both: alt.html alt.html.critique It will be interesting to see the results if they dare do that!!! The site does not work under my pc configuration. Other potential customers will find the same. It works for me with WinXP SP3 and the current versions of Firefox IE7 and Opera. Maybe you should post your PC configuration? No, no. this is not an IT site. We talk gardening here. But for some inexplicable reason, Sacha has not yet put up the site for critique as I advised. I am amazed that has not been done without delay cos they are loosing customers. Ed |
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On 21/07/08 19:40, Sacha wrote:
It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Why have you not put the site up for review at: alt.html alt.html.critique I hope you have not spent money on this. As it is, I would get a refund. Your loosing business!! Ed |
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On 23/07/08 17:56, Martin wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:52:54 +0100, Ed ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 17:45, Martin wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:22:18 +0100, Ed ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 16:26, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 15:38, in article , "Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:30:11 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 11:52, in article net, "Kate Morgan" wrote: snip Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith I strongly urge Sacha to submit the site for critical review at both: alt.html alt.html.critique It will be interesting to see the results if they dare do that!!! The site does not work under my pc configuration. Other potential customers will find the same. It works for me with WinXP SP3 and the current versions of Firefox IE7 and Opera. Maybe you should post your PC configuration? No, no. this is not an IT site. We talk gardening here. Are you trolling? It looks to me as if you are knocking her new website without any justification. No, no , I not no troll.. I want the business to succeed to the maximum. Let's just see what a critical review of the site will reveal as I suggested earlier. But I fear they wont do it. Sacha has not replied at all! How is ur runners doing btw? Ed |
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On 23/7/08 17:22, in article net, "Ed"
ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 16:26, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 15:38, in article , "Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:30:11 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 11:52, in article net, "Kate Morgan" wrote: snip Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith I strongly urge Sacha to submit the site for critical review at both: alt.html alt.html.critique snip I appreciate the interest, Ed but my experience of discussing computer matters on the web is that WW3 breaks out because everyone thinks they're an expert. I've had some very helpful comments from another professional designer and am following those lines. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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On 23/7/08 17:52, in article
net, "Ed" ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 17:45, Martin wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:22:18 +0100, Ed ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 16:26, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 15:38, in article , "Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:30:11 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 11:52, in article net, "Kate Morgan" wrote: snip Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith I strongly urge Sacha to submit the site for critical review at both: alt.html alt.html.critique It will be interesting to see the results if they dare do that!!! The site does not work under my pc configuration. Other potential customers will find the same. It works for me with WinXP SP3 and the current versions of Firefox IE7 and Opera. Maybe you should post your PC configuration? No, no. this is not an IT site. We talk gardening here. But for some inexplicable reason, Sacha has not yet put up the site for critique as I advised. I am amazed that has not been done without delay cos they are loosing customers. Ed What a strange thing to say. How do you know we're losing customers? In fact, we've had quite a few! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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On 23/7/08 17:56, in article ,
"Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:52:54 +0100, Ed ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 17:45, Martin wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:22:18 +0100, Ed ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 16:26, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 15:38, in article , "Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:30:11 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 11:52, in article net, "Kate Morgan" wrote: snip Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith I strongly urge Sacha to submit the site for critical review at both: alt.html alt.html.critique It will be interesting to see the results if they dare do that!!! The site does not work under my pc configuration. Other potential customers will find the same. It works for me with WinXP SP3 and the current versions of Firefox IE7 and Opera. Maybe you should post your PC configuration? No, no. this is not an IT site. We talk gardening here. Are you trolling? It looks to me as if you are knocking her new website without any justification. Let's just say this is not a person who I would take advice from on anything! Trouble making seems to be on the agenda, not gardening or web sites! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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On Jul 23, 5:22 pm, Ed ex@directory wrote:
On 23/07/08 16:26, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 15:38, in article , "Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:30:11 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 11:52, in article , "Kate Morgan" wrote: snip Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith I strongly urge Sacha to submit the site for critical review at both: alt.html alt.html.critique It will be interesting to see the results if they dare do that!!! The site does not work under my pc configuration. Other potential customers will find the same. And because it is a business site then it needs to work effectively across all common web browsers otherwise you cut off a lot of potential trade. This isn't the place to discusses the technicalities of web page design and I'm not going there. But if I spent money to people to build this website, then I would wont a refund! However, I'd rather talk about how runner beans and early potatoes are doing this year! LOL!! Ed My runner beans are not doing well how are yours. BTW I still think it is an ace site and if I wanted to order something, as a potential customer, I found it easy. Judith |
New web site - finally....
On Jul 23, 6:03 pm, Ed ex@directory wrote:
On 23/07/08 17:56, Martin wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:52:54 +0100, Ed ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 17:45, Martin wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:22:18 +0100, Ed ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 16:26, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 15:38, in article , "Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:30:11 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 11:52, in article , "Kate Morgan" wrote: snip Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith I strongly urge Sacha to submit the site for critical review at both: alt.html alt.html.critique It will be interesting to see the results if they dare do that!!! The site does not work under my pc configuration. Other potential customers will find the same. It works for me with WinXP SP3 and the current versions of Firefox IE7 and Opera. Maybe you should post your PC configuration? No, no. this is not an IT site. We talk gardening here. Are you trolling? It looks to me as if you are knocking her new website without any justification. No, no , I not no troll.. I want the business to succeed to the maximum. Let's just see what a critical review of the site will reveal as I suggested earlier. But I fear they wont do it. Sacha has not replied at all! How is ur runners doing btw? Ed She doesn't need a critique my sweetie, her husband's business is doing superb and any more maximum is just not possible. Order something dear heart, insert your details, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to use. Judith |
New web site - finally....
On Jul 23, 6:08 pm, Sacha wrote:
On 23/7/08 17:56, in article , "Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:52:54 +0100, Ed ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 17:45, Martin wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:22:18 +0100, Ed ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 16:26, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 15:38, in article , "Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:30:11 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 11:52, in article , "Kate Morgan" wrote: snip Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith I strongly urge Sacha to submit the site for critical review at both: alt.html alt.html.critique It will be interesting to see the results if they dare do that!!! The site does not work under my pc configuration. Other potential customers will find the same. It works for me with WinXP SP3 and the current versions of Firefox IE7 and Opera. Maybe you should post your PC configuration? No, no. this is not an IT site. We talk gardening here. Are you trolling? It looks to me as if you are knocking her new website without any justification. Let's just say this is not a person who I would take advice from on anything! Trouble making seems to be on the agenda, not gardening or web sites! -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Aaah, I have just caught on - duh I was a bit slow today Sacha. Judith |
New web site - finally....
On 23/7/08 20:31, in article
, "Judith in France" wrote: On Jul 23, 6:08 pm, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 17:56, in article , "Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:52:54 +0100, Ed ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 17:45, Martin wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:22:18 +0100, Ed ex@directory wrote: On 23/07/08 16:26, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 15:38, in article , "Martin" wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:30:11 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 23/7/08 11:52, in article , "Kate Morgan" wrote: snip Ed, how so as I found it easy to navigate and easy to use? I thought it was a superb and professional piece of work. Judith I strongly urge Sacha to submit the site for critical review at both: alt.html alt.html.critique It will be interesting to see the results if they dare do that!!! The site does not work under my pc configuration. Other potential customers will find the same. It works for me with WinXP SP3 and the current versions of Firefox IE7 and Opera. Maybe you should post your PC configuration? No, no. this is not an IT site. We talk gardening here. Are you trolling? It looks to me as if you are knocking her new website without any justification. Let's just say this is not a person who I would take advice from on anything! Trouble making seems to be on the agenda, not gardening or web sites! -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Aaah, I have just caught on - duh I was a bit slow today Sacha. Judith Don't worry about it! We know it needs some work, that's why the comments have - mostly - been welcome. It's always a good idea to see what others think of a site, what thorny bits they discover etc. But trying to set someone up for a flame war isn't helpful to anyone and it is certainly not 'help' that anyone needs, IMO. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
New web site - finally....
On 24/7/08 13:40, in article , "Granity"
wrote: 'Sacha[_3_ Wrote: ] Don't worry about it! We know it needs some work, that's why the comments have - mostly - been welcome. It's always a good idea to see what others think of a site, what thorny bits they discover etc. But trying to set someone up for a flame war isn't helpful to anyone and it is certainly not 'help' that anyone needs, IMO. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Lovely site Sacha, works perfectly well using IE or FireFox and Opera, therefore most people will be able to use it. Two people have found they have to scroll from side to side which is a puzzle as those are the only two but time will iron out the creases! One thing that would be "nice to have", but I suspect a lot of trouble to implement, is the ability to click on a picture and seeing an enlarged version. There is a 'larger picture' button, though no it doesn't make it into a huge pic I'll talk to our guru about that but we don't want to overload the site and make it take even longer to download. I suspect this is why so many of the pics you see on the internet are quite small, too but I don't have the techie knowhow to be sure of that! Many thanks for the kind words. I've had some very constructive and helpful emails from posters and from a professional web site designer who reads the group. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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One thing that would be "nice to have", but I suspect a lot of trouble to implement, is the ability to click on a picture and seeing an enlarged version. |
New web site - finally....
Sacha wrote:
Don't worry about it! We know it needs some work, that's why the comments have - mostly - been welcome. It's always a good idea to see what others think of a site, what thorny bits they discover etc. But trying to set someone up for a flame war isn't helpful to anyone and it is certainly not 'help' that anyone needs, IMO. There's a link at the bottom of page one for page 1 and the same with page two - the link is for Page 2. -- AnneJ |
OT: New web site - finally....
"Ed" ex@directory wrote in message et... On 21/07/08 19:40, Sacha wrote: It's taken longer to build than Rome but it's out the www.hillhousenursery.com Your site needs some serious work to make it generally usable. I've marked this thread OT so now we can discuss this here! There are errors on the site and I certainly find the construction a wee bit baffling - I think the end result could have been done with far simpler code/CSS. However, to say it is unusable is overstating the case somewhat. Please give details. I'm not trying to catch you out, I'm seriously interested in the details of your argument. There's a chance I may learn something - I will concede that there are any number of people out there who are better web developers than I am. What really makes me mad is the kind of money that can be charged for building/maintaining a website - I know as I've seen this in practice. Great websites can be built from the ground up very cost effectively if you know where to go (which I do!). And it is actually pretty easy to learn basic HTML/CSS in order to more than adequately maintain a site(as I do). |
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