North Hampshire Brewers

Phil · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:44 pm Post subject: Web Page Speed

I've been struggling to understand why the club web page (and mine for that matter) take so long to load. It turns out, after much headscratching, it's something to do with the way I've been uploading the files to the server. If I upload from Frontpage it's fast to download but if I use a generic FTP client it's slow. It's probably related to extra files and folders generated by Frontpage but that's not important....

So, having worked it out I've updated my own page and fixed the loading speed. Once I'm confident that the problem is gone for ever I'll start to rework the club site. Before I do this is there anything in particular you want to see on the club site?

The existing page was thrown together in a couple of hours and it shows. I'm hoping to put together a new page to showcase the club as the centre of brewing excellence it is Wink

so any ideas as to what you want to show on it?

/Phil.

harbottle · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:45 pm Post subject:

Dunno about what to put on the new web page as yet, but for all my websites I have been using cuteftp home http://www.cuteftp.com/products/ftp_clients.aspx

as my ftp client program. Frontpage I found (when I used to use it), puts as you say loads of other crap in with it. In fact I don't use it at all now and generally code webpages using a text editor.
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TheBigEasy · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:09 pm Post subject:

How about adding a multi/google map to show where we meet with some directions.
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Phil · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:52 pm Post subject:

Good idea.

Mark N · Old Hand Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 464 Location: Swindon

Maybe have a recipe page (not necesarily for everything we brew, as it's likley to get too busy/diluted), but it might be good for when you post the minutes of the meetings if you could provide a link to the recipe, if there was a particularly good beer on offer.
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Scott · Old Hand Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 203 Location: Woking

I have seen another club website with a pdf document from the local water company. Could we have this for Basingstoke, Alton and Woking and maybe a few other local areas? I think I have one for Woking and the others should be available from the web. I could find them and email them to you.

Phil · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:58 pm Post subject:

Good idea. When I get my arse in gear and re-do the web page I'll get these uploaded.

If anyone has waterreports please send them to me and I'll sort it out.

Cheers,
/Phil.

harbottle · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:43 pm Post subject:

I have Thames Water report
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Phil · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:34 pm Post subject:

Send it through Phil, if you don't mind.

What else do you want to see?

So far we have water reports and recipes. How about a profile of each of the members? Also it would be good to have some photos of us all in action both at meetings and on brewdays and trips out. So, keep your cameras handy.

/Phil.

harbottle · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:41 pm Post subject:

Phil · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:02 pm Post subject:

Thanks Phil. I'll hopefully upload it sometime over the weekend, if I get a chance.

Phil · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:24 pm Post subject:

OK, have a look at the site now and see what you think. There's still loads of work to do on it populating links etc and I will eventually tweak the colours on here to match the simple, white format but I think you'll get the idea.

mentaldental · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:41 pm Post subject:

mentaldental · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:54 pm Post subject:

Nit picking now!

The descenders of "North Hampshire Brewers" clash with the ascenders of "The informal club..." and the tracking (letter spacing) is very tight on the latter. "The informal club" reads as "The informal dub" and the r and m merge together. I think the letter spacing is set to a negative value which would account for this, admittedly minor, problem. Wink

. It does make the text a little hard to read though.
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mentaldental · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 12:06 am Post subject:

Another thought: you say that the club is "a group of people from all over the North Hampshire and Surrey/Hants borders area". Fair enough but Mark and I are located in Wiltshire and the club's venue makes it the club for us too. Laughing

Maybe you could work this into the blurb? Perhaps we can get some more moonrakers to join! Can you add something to the search terms so that searches for brew clubs in Wiltshire will find our site?[/u]
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