British tennis frontpage for this site

Sheddie · administrator

RE: British tennis frontpage for this site

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

It's great David.

The one thing I would say is please add a 'word' link to the forum as not everyone will realise the picture is a link (the only reason I did is becuase I noticed my mouse icon thingy change to a link clicky thing when I moved across it -please excuse the lack of technical language, i'm not really a knowledgeable computer person!)

Other than that it's great.

Sheddie · administrator

I'm pleased you like it

I have got a word link to the forum, it just doesn't currently show unless you highlight that space. I need to change the colour

Sheddie · administrator

Click on the above mentioned link again, now we have our banner !!!

Ignore the news stuff, that needs to be updated which I'll do later today

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Great stuff. I especially like the schedules part as I am usually searching all over this forum to find who is playing where! How about adding the Kooyong exhibition to week 2, to show where Andy is?

Only reservation - the colours are too bright for my taste, I feel I need sunglasses.

I also think this forum needs tidying up, with probably a separate section for juniors now there is so much info on them from Greenleaf & Co., and a rethink on the split of the mens. It seems a bit daft to have Tim and Greg separate from the other men (I don't have a problem with Andy being separate, it is an Andrew Murray Message board after all) now that Boggo has split the two of them and it may not be much longer before Josh and Richard get ahead of Greg, too.

-- Edited by Madeline at 14:49, 2006-12-29

RobC · All-time great

It looks great.

I agree with Madeline that the colours are a bit too bright - especially that neon green bit!

It's probably not a good idea to stick with that font: a serif-less font like Verdana or Arial usually works better.

We need to sort out what the site is called. I can see four different names in the first screen I load: "Knowledge is Power", "British Tennis Online", "britishtennisonline.net" and "britishtennis.net". We need to stick to just the one of those!

Finally, I'd lose the "knowledge is Power" strapline at the top of the page in internet explorer: replace it with "British Tennis Online" or "British Tennis Dot Net" or whatever the site is to be called

-- Edited by RobC at 15:48, 2006-12-29

Drew · Dec 29, 2006

RobC wrote:

It looks great.

I agree with Madeline that the colours are a bit too bright - especially that neon green bit!

It's probably not a good idea to stick with that font: a serif-less font like Verdana or Arial usually works better.

We need to sort out what the site is called. I can see four different names in the first screen I load: "Knowledge is Power", "British Tennis Online", "britishtennisonline.net" and "britishtennis.net". We need to stick to just the one of those!

Finally, I'd lose the "knowledge is Power" strapline at the top of the page in internet explorer: replace it with "British Tennis Online" or "British Tennis Dot Net" or whatever the site is to be called

-- Edited by RobC at 15:48, 2006-12-29

Hi Rob,

Fixed the strapline in an update that i have sent to David already.

I have worked to Verdana for the banner...suggest we do that throughout ?

Ta

Sheddie · administrator

Now I'm back from exam hell, hopefully I can get this going soon.

any volunteers to have a go at female player profiles ?? Also, Drew, I think i'll need to make use of your Paintshop skills if you're around to do that at the weekend

Drew · Jan 25, 2007

ultimateshedman wrote:
Now I'm back from exam hell, hopefully I can get this going soon.

any volunteers to have a go at female player profiles ?? Also, Drew, I think i'll need to make use of your Paintshop skills if you're around to do that at the weekend

We have sold our house after 9 months on the market so have been really busy getting everything ready for our move into our new home end February....that aside happy to help...

Sheddie · administrator

Well done on selling the house !

That's great news, you must be relieved, where are you moving to ?

Good luck with all of that, you must be pretty busy !

If you have the time, I need to have a set of links to the other pages on the homepage. So, I need a set of rectangle shapes with "News", "Schedules", "Rankings", "Mens profiles" etc

any ideas on colours for that, ?

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Please change the colours on the front page. Really garish, I need sunglasses to look at it.

Sheddie · administrator

Really, I didn't think they were that bad

What colours do you mean, is it the blue background ?
Also, any suggestions for what colour to change to (hint:this would be really helpful if you do have some

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Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

No, it is that tooth-grinding green that makes it painful for me to look at. I would prefer a more pastel shade than that, or a neutral such as grey, but frankly practically anything not vivid would be an improvement.

Sheddie · administrator

Madeline wrote:
No, it is that tooth-grinding green that makes it painful for me to look at. I would prefer a more pastel shade than that, or a neutral such as grey, but frankly practically anything not vivid would be an improvement.

Ah yes, i'd forgotten about THAT green, I think I was a bit desperate at the time. Maybe a lighter shade of blue ?

Michael · Pro player

I had green as one of the main colours of my site and it didn't go down well. Had to change it all.