Clean It Up
UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: pro-clean on February 13, 2008, 08:09:23 pm
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hi
wonder if someone can help me, I've got problems with my website in that when i look at it live the writing in the pages below have distorted writing, this only happens when it's live and not when i'm building it, can anybody advise me of what i'm doing wrong, i'm not particularly computer illeterate but have a basic understanding. Hoping to advertise it live by the end of this week beginning of next, due to work committements i haven't got much time so would realy appreciate some help
Thanks
Richie
xxxxxx
pages distorted
home page: 24 hour
needlestick:
fire damage
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I've just had a look it looks OK to me, I'm using IE.
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Hi Gary
Thanks for your reply, we're on BT broardband and it's realy distorted could it be that i've got a virus or sommit on my computer or that bt broardband isn't compatable with microsoft website, i'm really at a loss
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Hi
I am on bt broadband and run explorer and it looks fine.
thanks
karl
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Website looks fine to me too. can I ask you where you did your training for bio cleaning.
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Can't think what it can be, can only understand how cheesed off you feel though. Doubt its a virus or your connection, bet it is something really simple and obvious!!
There are a few good web guys on here, someone will know soon enough. Don't forget to spell check and proof read ;).
Don't envy the job you do, did a 'House of Horrors' type job last year, never again, I'm too much of a whimp.
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Website looks fine to me too. can I ask you where you did your training for bio cleaning.
There can't be anything wrong with your website, Myvanwi can see it and she isn't even on this planet.
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thanks guys
still distorted from this end, my self and the mrs have spent hours trying to sort it out, realy can't understand it
myvanwi
we've been carrying this out for 20 odd years we did some training at BICSc and National flood school, we've also got friends that have carried this out in the states for longer than us and it's an on going learning process and alot of it's to do with health and safety and the pictures are pretty timid to some of the work that we do
thanks anyway
Richie
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Don't forget to spell check and proof read ;).
will do cheers
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Website looks fine to me too. can I ask you where you did your training for bio cleaning.
There can't be anything wrong with your website, Myvanwi can see it and she isn't even on this planet.
What do you mean? We are on Jupiter aren't we?
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thanks guys
still distorted from this end, my self and the mrs have spent hours trying to sort it out, realy can't understand it
myvanwi
we've been carrying this out for 20 odd years we did some training at BICSc and National flood school, we've also got friends that have carried this out in the states for longer than us and it's an on going learning process and alot of it's to do with health and safety and the pictures are pretty timid to some of the work that we do
thanks anyway
Richie
I do know what is involved and someone has to do it, I was just interested in specific training required besides the usual health and safety, disposal procedures etc. Thanks for your reply.
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Website looks fine to me too. can I ask you where you did your training for bio cleaning.
There can't be anything wrong with your website, Myvanwi can see it and she isn't even on this planet.
What do you mean? We are on Jupiter aren't we?
I think you're further out that that :P
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Richie,
It's nothing to do with BT Broadband and you haven't got a virus. It's more than likely to be caused by browsers not displaying your pages correctly due to bad coding within the Office Live application.
This is what I see:
Internet Explorer
Home page - looks ok, but a big gap between the wording 'Emergency Response' and your address.
Needle stick - OK, but wording under and above pictures is not aligned correctly. Links run off end of page.
Fire damage - Two sizes of font in wording. Big gap after 24 hour telephone number.
Firefox
Home page - Font sizes incorrect. Large text should be small and vice versa. Logos and address details completely messed up.
Needle stick - looks fine, but links appear between text and images. Doesn't look right.
Fire damage - Two sizes of font in wording. Big gap after 24 hour telephone number.
If I were you, I would use a different package to design your site, or get someone to do it for you. If you make that site 'live' it will make your company appear amateurish. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but that's the impression I got.
Hope that helps - ALAN.
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Are the wordings actually jpgs?
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Are the wordings actually jpgs?
No - just plain coloured text.
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Richie,If I were you, I would use a different package to design your site, or get someone to do it for you. If you make that site 'live' it will make your company appear amateurish. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but that's the impression I got.
Hope that helps - ALAN.
Hi Alan
thanks for your reply, i don't find this harsh at all, it's what we needed to know, we've actually got an advertising plan in conjunction with the site ready to go out within the next few days so changing to a different package is going to be a bit difficult and financially costly, surely this being a microsoft site (reputable) could it just need tweeking of some sort that i haven't realised, would appreciate any advice
Thanks
Richie
chris browne no the wordings are not jpg as far as i'm aware just the pictures
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Richie,
I've never used Office Live, so I don't know how it works. Do you have your own webspace that you can upload to?
Just had a look at the code in Dreamweaver and it's very bloated and full of rubbish that Office Live has added. I tried to clean up the home page and Dreamweaver gave up!
ALAN.
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Richie,
I've never used Office Live, so I don't know how it works. Do you have your own webspace that you can upload to?
Just had a look at the code in Dreamweaver and it's very bloated and full of rubbish that Office Live has added. I tried to clean up the home page and Dreamweaver gave up!
ALAN.
Hi Alan
do you mean on office live, we got webspace on bt broardband within our package with them, i don't know what dreamweaver is
Thanks
Richie
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Dreamweaver is a website design tool that I use to create my websites. There is an option in there to clean up the html coding and it couldn't cope with the code that Office Live produced. I have never come across that before.
I know you won't want to hear this, but I would not use Office Live to produce a website for a professional company. On their site thay say:
Microsoft Office Live Small Business makes it easy to create a professional-looking, custom Web site for your business.
What they actual mean is
Microsoft Office Live Small Business makes it easy to create a Web site.
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hi there
there are a few typo errors, on the decribers under images.
but generally delivers the message
where abouts are you
regards
Martin
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Alan thanks for your help their, i'm not the most brightest of sparks when it come to computers, this afternoon i will get some time to look through the site apparantly their is a web tool on their to help fix problems, hope you don't mind if i pick your brains if i can't get anywhere with it
Cheers
Richie
Hi Martin
we've had a couple of websites professionally done over the years, thought we would try and do our own, something different from the usual fluffy stuff, starting to think twice about that now, been a lot of hard work. we've yet to check the spelling mistakes, are you saying you can't see the errors that i pointed out earlier in the thread
We are based in south wales
Thanks
Richie
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Richie,
It's very rewarding to design your own website, but if it's taking you hours and you're finding it hard work, you'd be better off going out drumming up business.
I nearly fell into the trap of doing my own accounts, but an accountant friend told me that something that would take me all day would take him half an hour. The same applies to websites.
Anyway, I'm no expert, but if you're stuck, give me a shout - alan@wecleanforyou.co.uk.