Winner of 2003-2004 Golden Web Award - Page 2

Holly Snyder · 04-30-2003, 09:15 AM

Enzie,

I think you're talking about being able to add the same code to each file at the same point in each file? There's a freebie tool I used to use called XReplace (windows). I'd imagine you could still find it on shareware.com. It allows you to search through whatever files you specify for a string of text, and replace it with another string of text. It can do hundreds of a files at a time. The user interface is not all that intuitive, but once you learn it it can be a huge time saver if you have many static html files.

Regards,
Holly

Mari DeRuntz · 04-30-2003, 09:25 AM

Congratulations; it's a beautiful site. There might be an online user's group for the web-design package you used where you could post your question.

Enzie Shahmiri · 04-30-2003, 10:51 AM

Thank you all for your words of praise, I truly appreciate it. Holly, thanks for the hint, I will do some surfing and see if I can find XReplace. If it works I will let you all know.

By the way, just because the site got picked does not mean it couldn't be improved. If you noticed something that could be improved let me know. I value your opinions and will check your tips out to see if it could make the site even more user friendly.

Jean Kelly · 04-30-2003, 11:18 PM

You do good work Enzie, I especially like your son's portrait.

Jean

Cynthia Daniel · 05-01-2003, 07:36 AM

Enzie,

Macromedia's Dreamweaver is truly the only way to go. It's pricey at $300, but I bought mine on ebay for about $180. I avoided buying the academic edition simply because I didn't know if it was different than the regular one and didn't want to chance it.

In Dreamweaver, you set up a page template for those things that are common on every page such as a menu. You then change the template and every page using that template is then updated. Of course, you still have to load the changed pages to the server.

Cynthia

Leslie Ficcaglia · 05-01-2003, 08:07 PM

Enzie, when I tried to visit your website I got a message that I needed to download the newest Macromedia software, but even after that I still couldn't view your site with Safari, Apple's newest browser. It got to "loading 25/25" and hung up. It works on Netscape but it's very slow to load. Haven't tried it on IE yet. What I saw of it was gorgeous, though!

Enzie Shahmiri · 05-02-2003, 10:40 AM

Dear Jean, Cynthia and Leslie thanks for the praise and advise.

I will have to have my husband look into Dreamweaver, it sure sounds that it would help a lot to make things go faster. Leslie, I am sorry to hear that you had such trouble. I left all the animated gifs and Flash gadgets off so that the pages would load for those who have slower systems, but as I see now some of the images must still be too large.

I am on Cox high speed internet and use a screen that's 14"x11", my stuff not only loads fast, but is oversized. So I end up with a lot of guessing and constant running back and forth to laptops and smaller screens of other family member's computers to try to figure out how others view the page layout. There is soooo much to learn and soooo little time!