Sandvox was the choice for Ken Taylor to build his website. He chose the “Aqua” design for the site. People may want to visit the site if they are looking for improving the way they barbecue chicken.
Sandvox features used for this site:Site Map, Contact Form, Other Objects
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Describe your website.
BBQ Chicken Recipe Secrets is all about ways to improve barbecuing chicken. This site includes 'BBQ Chicken Wings', "BBQ Chicken Drumstick", "BBQ Whole Chicken", and "BBQ Sauce". Though the words are general, each topic will include tips for improving a barbecue recipe or improving the way you barbecue.
Who is the target audience for your website?
Any one who loves to BBQ; loves to eat BBQ food; loves to learn ways to BBQ better and loves summertime!
What is the advantage of your website over others?
This is not a recipe site. It's a site about 'improving' a recipe and also helping people improve their barbecuing technique.
Tell us a story about this website.
This is not my story. It's your story. When you think of a summer BBQ how many of you can feel the warmth of a summer breeze? How many of you can smell the aroma of the BBQ? How many of you can hear the sounds of laughter as we played, swam, ran, and jumped? How many of you can feel the warmth of family and friends enjoying the day together? How many of you remember those days of a summer time BBQ?
Why did you use this Sandvox design?
I like the "Aqua" design. I went into the css file and tweaked the header, made it larger to accommodate my header image.
What techniques did you use to build this website?
I tried to keep it as simple as possible. Less chance of things breaking :)
I didn't like the way the 'list of links' pagelet only worked for external URLs. I wanted to make an Article Index.
So I used the 'rich text' pagelet. I then went into the Aqua files and found the blue ball image. I made a duplicate of that image dragged it to my desktop and resized down so that the image could be 'inline' with the text.
Next, I listed all the articles that I have on my site and linked this list to it's respective page in the website.
I had to go in and edit the 'raw html' to get the 'blurb' under each linked article to fall neatly and squarly under the link. I used the html tag <br> for this.
I also found out, from searching on the forum, that if I don't close the <center> tag like this </center> I'm going to have big problems with Internet Explorer. I have Parallels, so I fire up the ol' Windows Virtual Machine and launch IE in my Windows XP. The first time I did this 'everything' on my site was 'centered' especially the text. The above forum answer fixed that.
So now my Sandvox site is a 'smooth' cyber-sailor with the Window's IE.
This website was created by Ken Taylor of Under The Japanese Maple Tree.
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