New, fairly large, school site

[kweitzel]

I think, it's just their uplink beeing slow ...

cheers

Klaus

[jmasondotnet]

I have a broadband connection and this site seems to be really slow. Is this a function of WB or other issues? I am looking to move several websites.

Jesse

[cushy]

Thanks.  Yes, it's the content.  My users don't believe in testing, and I haven't gotten around to a fix.

[Lightform]

Great website well done.

A small problem : http://www.northgwinnett.com/pages/athletics/teams/cross-country/boys-cross-country.php

this page breaks up / stretches way out of bounds in my IE. Is is because of the content ?

Other that that great job.

Kind Regards
Stratos

[cushy]

it really looks great ... respect from here as well!

cheers

Klaus

Klaus - Would love some of your expertise on the site listed above (www.northgwinnett.com).  Our performance, especially for admin/pages/index.php, is very slow.  Suggestions?

I'm really looking forward to V3, we're on 2.6.1

Thanks for any help at all,
Mike

[kweitzel]

it really looks great ... respect from here as well!

cheers

Klaus

[cushy]

Very nice!  Yes, you have to change opencube to match your wb content.  And, you have to pay for opencube.  So, your menu will be very appreciated.  Let me know when you want someone to test it out.

[generic]

so when you add a new page to the main menu do you have to do it using opencube, outside of wb?.

I am trying to find the time to finish a simple drop down menu template based upon this site  [ http://www.cdahuizen.nl/ ] , for everyone to use. Hopefully I will have time tomight to finish it and comment the style sheet so everyone knows where and what to change, etc.

[cushy]

Thanks for the response Michael.  Yes, we have a ways to go in that area.  I made this with a team of kids in a very short time frame.  We'll be revisiting all images, "Saving for web" is huge for me, and even editing the template.  For example, removing the background images from the left and right side of the template, as they don't add enough to justify the "weight".

Suggestions are welcome, this site was done very quickly to satisfy administrative requests, and did not follow thorough and established procedures.

[mysticcowboy]

The site looks very nice. However it takes a very, very, very long time to load on a dialup modem. I checked a couple of your images and they need to be optimized. A lot. For example the image students2.jpg is 108KB, which is a good 50% larger than the recommended size for an entire page. I ran it through Photoshop Save For Web and reduced the file size to 17KB and it still looked fine.

If you expect this site to work for the general public, you really need to attend to image optimization.

[cushy]

Thanks for the compliments.  As for the template, we modified the Simple template a bit, that's all.

The menu is from opencube.com, and is not tied to WB for automatic linking. 

I must say that it holds up very well!  We have about 200 people with permission to update.  Most don't, but we did trainings in groups of 30, everyone in one day, and the response was overwhelmingly positive.

We aim to use this as a primary front end for our school, and link some teachers and courses to a Moodle for more attachments and course work. 

[applepie]

Well done. Did you create your own template? Any chance of sharing it? I am curious how you did it and did so well.

[smartsite]

Yep, that is one large site.
Lets hope you guys have one than one person to admin it, just to keep it "fresh", textwise. 

Keep up the good work!

// Henrik

[centran]

Now, if anyone could assist me with code that I can use to automatically sort some of my lists?  I'm pretty decent with Java, VB, ASP, but know nothing about PHP.  For example, I have a web page for each teacher.  However, when I add a new teacher, I have to move it one at a time up the ladder to it's spot.

check out this module that was recently developed
http://forum.websitebaker.org/index.php/topic,3029.0.html
It allows drag and drop of the page list and also the sections of page.(maybe more soon)

I know what you mean about the page sorting. It is very time consumming and annoying.

The site looks very impressive.

[whatever]

Something is wrong with the links in the upper right corner - some turn red when rolled over and some turn black (same color as background).

I find reading white text on a black background difficult (footer).

Most Websites don't need a site "search box". It's just clutter.

I would increase the drop down speed of the main menu bar.

[cushy]

I've put a WebsiteBaker box up on our "Website Help" page (got permission for that, we'll try to move it to a more prominent spot).

http://www.northgwinnett.com/pages/our-school/website-help.php

Now, if anyone could assist me with code that I can use to automatically sort some of my lists?  I'm pretty decent with Java, VB, ASP, but know nothing about PHP.  For example, I have a web page for each teacher.  However, when I add a new teacher, I have to move it one at a time up the ladder to it's spot.

I would really like to use this in the admin side.

Thanks in advance. 

[i2Paq]

Nice job and a professional look if I may say so!

*humble bow*

[cushy]

I'll check out that site link, we're in a very bureaucratic school district and I have to triple check on it.  However, I'm optimistic.

The main student developer, Sepehr, will soon be posting other links of his own work.  As for me, I really have to learn more PHP/MySQL.

Thanks for the compliments, but even more for the tools!

[Stefan]

Big compliment! Great looking site and may well be one of the largest WebsiteBaker projects so far.
Wonder if you could add a link to the WebsiteBaker home page on your "About Us" page to help spread the word...

[PeterM]

Very nice

[pcwacht]

Looks very good!

Good job.

[cushy]

Thanks to all who are contributing, we hope to shortly.  I have a team of students who have made this site.  One in particular (Sepehr, you'll see him on the board) is the main man:

http://www.northgwinnett.com

We still have some work to do (like 200 pages for our teaching staff), and will have about 500-600 pages when done.  I'm looking into permission to make a donation to you folks for your work!