My website with JA-Xenia

[swemmel]

I updated my website (http://www.pswemmelaar.nl)with JA-Xenia. Did a little modification.

Please, comments are welcome. :cool:

[trungch]

Hi swemmel,

Your customization very great.
Thanks you very much.

[Hung Dinh]

It looks quite good, however you should optimize and reduce the size of header images which took quite long to load at my ADSL connection

[bennieblanco]

also your header png does not lok goog in IE

[swemmel]

also your header png does not lok goog in IE

I installed the Ultimate PNG-Fix from Joomlaworks and now my header-png seems to look fine. :-[

Thanks everybody for the feedback.

Greetz,
Peter.

[swemmel]

It looks quite good, however you should optimize and reduce the size of header images which took quite long to load at my ADSL connection

I changed size (# bytes) )of my header-pictures. Quality is a little less, but still ok (in my opinion).

Peter

[swemmel]

Today implemented sFIR succesfully into my JA-Xenia website. It looks great!! :)

[ErikThorsen]

pswemmelaar.nl is a great modification of Joomlart template. :-)
However, why do you still have "site tools" there when they are not working? :-)

Well done I say! Love the effect of the large W in Website.. :-)

[jasonStockman]

Very nice website. I like how the large W overlays the flash header. Very nicely done.

I'm curious as to what program you use to compress your images. The takes a while to load on my connection also, and I've gotten close to 1MB download rates.

Personally I use XAT, found here:
http://www.xat.com/jpegopt/index.html

It's very efficient and compresses images very well!

Also the Site Tools seems to be working just fine for me, loading what I assume are style sheets to change the colors.

Only other suggestion would be to replace the favicon.ico

You can generate a favicon in MS Paint, Photoshop, or whatever and use a free online converter to make a favicon. DynamicDrive has a nice one:
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

Great job with the site! :cool:

[swemmel]

pswemmelaar.nl is a great modification of Joomlart template. :-)
However, why do you still have "site tools" there when they are not working? :-)

Well done I say! Love the effect of the large W in Website.. :-)

Thanx Erik, for the compliments. :-[

Sometimes the ultimatePNG fix-mambot sometimes make the Sitetools not work, but most of the time they work. :p

Sincerely,
Peter.

[swemmel]

Very nice website. I like how the large W overlays the flash header. Very nicely done.

I'm curious as to what program you use to compress your images. The takes a while to load on my connection also, and I've gotten close to 1MB download rates.

Personally I use XAT, found here:
http://www.xat.com/jpegopt/index.html

It's very efficient and compresses images very well!

Also the Site Tools seems to be working just fine for me, loading what I assume are style sheets to change the colors.

Only other suggestion would be to replace the favicon.ico

You can generate a favicon in MS Paint, Photoshop, or whatever and use a free online converter to make a favicon. DynamicDrive has a nice one:
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

Great job with the site! :cool:

Hi Jason,

Thankx for compliments. I made my jpg's smaller as you said. Can you test it for me please, if they are loading a little faster.

Thankx,
Peter.

[SHoggard]

I'm impressed AND curious how you got your header-logo png into that position at the top in the 1st place ;)

[swemmel]

I'm impressed AND curious how you got your header-logo png into that position at the top in the 1st place ;)

I made the image of the JA-Xenia Without text and logo's (for all 3 colors) and made my own logo (new image). Then I made the same code as the JA-Xenia logo for my own logo and place it right after the code for JA-Xenia logo (see sample).


....
<div id="ja-header" class="clearfix">

<h1>
<a href="index.php">
<img src="<?php echo $ja_template_path;?>/images/logo-<?php echo $ja_color; ?>.jpg" alt="<?php echo $mosConfig_sitename?>" />
</a>
</h1>

<h1>
<a href="index.php">
<img src="<?php echo $ja_template_path;?>/images/logo.png" alt="<?php echo $mosConfig_sitename?>" />
</a
</h1>

<div id="ja-topnavwrap" class="clearfix">
....

[SHoggard]

Excellent ! Simple and clean solution

Thank you - I'll give it a try over the weekend ;)

This is a classic example of HOW a forum should work ... see my comments in thread:http://www.joomlart.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2408

If there were a Wiki this should be in it.

[swemmel]

More modifications.

I spiced up my website a little more. Now implemented Frontpage Slideshow from Joomlaworks and lightbox.

Regards,
Peter.

[ErikThorsen]

Nice touch Peter.

However, using firefox I don't see anything but a dark grey background in your header???

Further to this it seems like you are writing in a completely non-comprehensible language. LOL.

I truly like the way the W "overlaps" your header. A nice little touch! Great work!

[MiCCAS]

You need to wait until the images load, it is grey until the images it'll be flicking through load.

[swemmel]

Nice touch Peter.

However, using firefox I don't see anything but a dark grey background in your header???

Further to this it seems like you are writing in a completely non-comprehensible language. LOL.

I truly like the way the W "overlaps" your header. A nice little touch! Great work!

Hi Eric,

My website is in Dutch. :D

Sometimes my header wait till loading. I think it is because I am using the mambot CORRECTPNG! to display the png-file correct in IE6. I replaced it now with Ultimate PNG-fix 2.0 from Joomlaworks. It seems to be better now. Can you check?

Kind Regards,
Peter.

[ErikThorsen]

Hello Peter,

I guess you might say it is my own fault on this one. I haven't got flash installed on this version of FF and so it doesn't show. Perhaps a "you do not have flash installed" message would be appropriate??

further to this I now checked your site in IE 6.0.2 and your nice big W is now just a small little thing located up in the top corner.. :-)

Just giving a little feedback from what I see..

[spain777]

Very nice web site ! :)

May I ask, what photoalbum module is that ?

[spain777]

Very nice web site ! :)

May I ask, what photoalbum module is that ?

[swemmel]

Very nice web site ! :)

May I ask, what photoalbum module is that ?

There are 2 photoalbums on my website:
- zOOm Media Gallery 2.5.1 RC 4 http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,936/Itemid,35/
- Expose Flash Gallery RC4 http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,254/Itemid,35/

Regards,
Peter

[topchristian]

This is nice, as a new who love ja_xenia, I read in the manual that I had to download the ja_news module but where can I get this?

[swemmel]

The JA-News module is in the downloadsection from JA-Xenia.

Gr. Peter

[ibunk]

how about header..with what u make it...

[swemmel]

The header is just ja-header.

Kind Regards,
Peter.

[ibunk]

The header is just ja-header.

Kind Regards,
Peter.

How about the Module Position, what Position u place ja-header.

[swemmel]

Hi Ibunik,

Header-position, customized. But how can an unlicensed member have an official JA-Template??. :p

Kind Regards,
Peter.

[imamababa]

Nice job, Its a good modification !!
simply and beautiful