Now that the New Year is upon us, we have now started to book our time at La Matha. We've already booked a weekend in mid-March, and are planning a week's trip with a van for around Easter. A long weekend in June with girlfriends has been organised by Pip, and we're talking about a weekend and week in September.
The trip at Easter with the van will take some furniture, a Pergola kit and a load of plants. The Pergola and plants are for the side of the house which is currently a bit boring. We'll be creating a space for the table tennis table, and make it a bit more attractive. Oh yes, with the van, we will be able to buy some wine and bring it home!!!!
Monday, 14 January 2013
Buttons or Links
The website advertising La Matha (www.la-matha.com) has served us well since I set it up in 2008. It was created in a simple way using a free development tool called NVU. There was nothing fancy about it - pages made up of tables with text and pictures in, and the menu merely comprising a list of links to the different pages. A recent upgrade was the new picture gallery in HTML5 (see post "Is this flash, or not").
Things have moved on since 2008. I no longer use NVU, but BlueGriffon - basically the same, but brought into the Mozilla family with Firefox and Thundebird. That software is still simple - there is WYSIWYG functionality as well as pure HTML scripting, but again, no gimmicks. For another website, I have been using Coffee Cup Visual Site Designer which does allow some gimmicks, but is a bit restricting for what we want at La Matha. However, I have been able to copy some functionality from that software through to BlueGriffon - buttons!
Using this, I have replaced the simple menu with a series of buttons which change colour when the mouse goes over them. In order to make this more organised, I have grouped the pages together a bit better - the Local Area pages were already grouped, but the House now has Pictures, Guestbook, Location and Activities under it.
I hope this makes the site look a bit better, and less amateurish: it probably still is that, but it at least gets the message across. The old format is still alive and well on the french version.
Things have moved on since 2008. I no longer use NVU, but BlueGriffon - basically the same, but brought into the Mozilla family with Firefox and Thundebird. That software is still simple - there is WYSIWYG functionality as well as pure HTML scripting, but again, no gimmicks. For another website, I have been using Coffee Cup Visual Site Designer which does allow some gimmicks, but is a bit restricting for what we want at La Matha. However, I have been able to copy some functionality from that software through to BlueGriffon - buttons!
Using this, I have replaced the simple menu with a series of buttons which change colour when the mouse goes over them. In order to make this more organised, I have grouped the pages together a bit better - the Local Area pages were already grouped, but the House now has Pictures, Guestbook, Location and Activities under it.
I hope this makes the site look a bit better, and less amateurish: it probably still is that, but it at least gets the message across. The old format is still alive and well on the french version.
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