Help needed!

[william@bmc-online.co.uk]

Hi all,

Over the past few months we have built our new website using CMSMS. Although we like the system as it is very easy to add and edit content, we have not been able to produce a site of the quality we had first envisioned.


Please take a look at our site www.bmc-online.co.uk

We would really appreciate any advice on how we can bring our site up to the level of some of the  other CMSMS sites I have seen on this forum.

Many thanks,

William 

[jeroendelau]

Hey I had a quick look, at your site, you seem of to a good start just some quick tips.

First, and maybe most important, redo your images, a lot of your images are over compressed leaving jagged edges. Secondly some images are jpeg, while .gif is the better option. Take for instance the address in the top right corner.

Rule of thumb, gifs for text and animation, jpeg for pictures. If you have Photoshop use the save for web feature, there you can experiment with different options.

Secondly i'd suggest a breadcrumb, since the navigation does not show where you are exactly.

For the content area, make sure it is consistent, and maybe use some images to liven things up a bit.

Finally the body background color does not show up in firefox, it does in IE7.

Good luck.

[william@bmc-online.co.uk]

Hey, thanks for the the tips!

I have redone some of the images to improve quality - changing over to gif format. I am not sure where the header image is located. Any ideas

Now that you say, I definitly agree that some subnavigation needed. How would i go about adding breadcrumbs to the site?

Good idea, i'll work on adding more images.

Any ideas how to fix the IE/Firefox disparities?

Thanks for the advice!!!

[RonnyK]

The breadcrumbs can be inserted with:

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   <!-- Start Breadcrumbs -->
   <div class="breadcrumbs">
        {breadcrumbs starttext='You are here' root='Home' delimiter='»'}
   <hr class="accessibility" />
   </div>
   <!-- End Breadcrumbs -->

The image in the header is probably called within "DIV#header" in the layout-stylesheet.

ronny

[william@bmc-online.co.uk]

Thanks for the help! 

I have had some time to play around and apply your tips and advice to our site. I think you will agree that it is looking much cleaner and more professional now.

www.bmc-online.co.uk

As suggeted, i will be also be adding some more pictures to the site to make it more appealing to the eye. Any suggestions for finding some good business pics that won't cost the earth?

Any advice on how I would go about adding some sub navigation to the site, simlar to the standard left sub navigation?

Thanks again,

William 

[moonie]

istockphoto.com or stockxpert.com are very good places to find professional photos for just a few dollars!

[Dr.CSS]

If you don't mind, Please move this to the help sections, CMS Show Off is for finished sites...

  thanx...

[RonnyK]

William,

it styles a lot better than before, 2 further remarks, on some pages , f.e. "contact", "business consultancy" and "overseas business market" an additional page-name is displayed on the top left of the page.

Also it looks like not all text has the same font/size styled through CSS, the text above the contact-form seems to be another font than the rest of the site.

Ronny

[william@bmc-online.co.uk]

Thanks again Ronny... I'll get onto it!

Sorry Mark, i'll start a new post in the help section.

Cheers all,

William