Carter Lake Weather updated

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I originally throw the site together using the city website as my template (which I also throw together a couple of years ago for free).

I decided to move away from that design (so nobody complains that I’m copying even though I technically own both the look and feel and graphics on the city website).

Anyway, the new setup has three goals:

  1. Ease of use

  2. Give flavor of Carter Lake (through top graphic)

  3. Make all pages have dynamic weather information

My goal now is to get some nice top graphic images from around town on every page in all seasons so people get a feel for what Carter Lake is like.

Comments?

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Very nice clean page - very easy on the eyes and brain!

I really wish I knew what I was doing with my page - I would love to have my page look like yours!

Great job.

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Very nice clean page - very easy on the eyes and brain!

I really wish I knew what I was doing with my page - I would love to have my page look like yours!

Great job.

Thanks. That’s exactly what I’m going for.

I went down to my parents house in the middle of nowhere (northern Missouri) and fired up the site to see how well it downloads on rural phone lines. Everything was snappy except the radar page.

I get so used to my cable modem that I sometimes forget not everyone else has instant viewing.

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Could I get a few people to check out a new front page I’m working on…

Is it too busy?

Missing something?

Not working?

Special thanks to Kevin for help with the PHP and air/pollen quality.

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I think, FWIW, that it looks great and conveys a bunch of information at a glance without being overwhelming, unlike my site LOL

Very very nice Tom…

-Bob

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Excellent!

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Thanks guys… I also just added a bit of PHP which resizes the WOWT webcam image from about 50K to 3K… it caches the image so that it isn’t continually running… pretty cool

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Looks damn fine from “down under” too !

Nice job. :slight_smile:

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Ok, I wasn’t completely happy with it so I’ve been playing around…

(If you see it tonight… it’s a cornicopia of watch… lightning alert, etc… YEAH, the detector is pinging finally.)

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May just be the LCD on this laptop but the scrolling banner is hard to read, kind of a disco strobe effect :frowning:

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I think your site looks great. It’s very readable. I’d like to get a site up and running, but know nothing about building one. I got a quote of $8.95 for a domain name and $20.00 a year for the site. Does that sound about right?

Larry

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Sounds about right to me, sounds like godaddy and e-rice :wink:

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[quote author=nikoshepherd link=topic=5234.msg60701#msg60701 date=1113187527]
May just be the LCD on this laptop but the scrolling banner is hard to read, kind of a disco strobe effect

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Front page loads fast here on my rusty twisted pair dialup phone wire. Nice look, clean :lol:

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Really fine professional job. Wish I had one like that.

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[quote author=nikoshepherd link=topic=5234.msg60701#msg60701 date=1113187527]
May just be the LCD on this laptop but the scrolling banner is hard to read, kind of a disco strobe effect

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Big thanks to Kevin at www.tnetweather.com for giving me his template (and my numerous questions and favors over the past week).

Good bye old layout…

Hello, clean look.

I’ve still got a bit of work to do but it shaped up nicely!

Thanks again Kevin!

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Excellent Tom,

Must have been busy at the coding wheel for some time with this redesign. Very nice clean look :slight_smile:

-Bob

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[quote author=JaxWeather link=topic=5234.msg84332#msg84332 date=1126909607]
Excellent Tom,

Must have been busy at the coding wheel for some time with this redesign.

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By the way, the idea behind the “seaonal” section is that during the summer I’ll have things like pollen and summer safety… and in the winter I’ll have things like flu and winter safety. I’ll simply rotate them as the seasons change (PHP includes make that incredibly easy).