Dustpuuppy

I know a few websites where those might sell rather well.

13 remover. Formula 13. Love potion 13. Love potion 69.

Wish you luck.

Take a concrete block and put it in a box. Put that box inside another box surrounding it with peanuts. Put that one inside another, then another. Use lots of tape on each box, preferably that strapping tape. Charge her twice what it cost to pack and ship. Enclose a note that says, "Since you've already gotten samples of everyone's candles, I though I'd send you a sample of my husband's 'craft' ".

Actually, I had forgotten about the browser safe color thing, until Jim brought it up. That and the fact that he didn't seem to be seeing what I was. It's been damn near 10 years since I did a web page. I never got too much into style sheets but in your case it might be worth looking into. In this situation you might be able to just redo the style sheet, rather than each page. Don't know if your hosting company will let you do it that way. Might be something to look into, next time you do a major overhaul.

Her BG color is #68838B, which isn't actually a browser safe color. (I peeked at her source code:naughty: ) It's rendering quite a bit darker than #336666 on my screen. Just checked with the IE browser and it looks a couple of shades lighter with it than with Firefox. Blt212: There's a chart here of the browser safe colors. If you don't want to change the BG color, you might change the alink and vlink colors to something with more contrast. Other than that, the site, as Jim said, looks fine. It'll have to be your call, whether the problem with the visibility of the links is bad enough to warrant changing anything.

In your case, I'd guess it's the monitor. Some laptops tend toward cheaper LED or LCD screens and rather cheap graphics cards. You might poke around and find some color adjustments, somewhere. Some just don't do the 3 million color thing. They'll default back to the nearest color they can display. It's often better to stick to primary colors, when possible. There's also a difference in how different browsers handle things. Something done with MS Frontpage will often not look right on a non MS browser. But colors generally stay the same. I'm getting more of the blue/green and I'm on Firefox.

I used to make these silly things that were sort of like closet deodorizers. For my part I just mangled a coat hanger and wrapped it in cloth that was soaked in scented wax. Made a ball out of it, covered it with a colored fishnet/mesh type material. Can't remember what it's called. Then I tied it together with a ribbon. Ya hang the silly thing in the closet. It smells really good, keeps the closet fresh. Every couple of months, you hit it with a hair dryer and it's good as new. Never got around to making them to sell but a few people I gave them to seemed to love them.

You could also just add touches, here and there, to denote the seasons. If you have a border you could wrap Christmas lights around it for winter, then roses for spring or some such. I've seen some sites where in the fall they would have a pile of fallen leaves racked up against the pictures. You could change that to a black cat curled up against them for Halloween, flowers for spring, a puppy for summer, snow drift for winter... Technically, you'd just set aside a small space about a half inch square, next to each of your pics, assign each of those to load XYZ.jpg with your <img> tags. You then change the picture that you call XYZ.jpg. By changing that picture each season but keeping the same name, it would let you do a big dramatic change, each season with just a couple of mouse clicks. You'd keep all these pics stored on the server. When you go from the cat to the snow, you go in and change the name of the files. the cat pic would be XYZ.jpg, you rename it Cat.jpg, then rename the snow pic so that IT is now XYZ.jpg. You could do the same effect on top of the main pics. The cat would be laying on top of the picture, then the picture would be wearing a Santa hat... etc. You could have a heart for Valentine's day, a flag for memorial day... This trick, or your own version of it, can change the whole feel fo the site in about 5 seconds. It wouldn't affect navigation, so your regular customers won't be lost, every time they come in. Everything is exactly the same... yet it's completely different. Always consistent but always fresh. You could also use GIFs instead of JPGs, so that some can be animated. You'd want to keep them small, though, so they don't slow down the page when it's loading.

A lot of people make the mistake of not realizing that some of their customers don't TeraByte download speeds. One hint. If you have a static background that loads first, it won't have to reload for every page. Makes your pages seem to load in half the time, after they first come on.

On the Peak's site, find the wick you want and click on it. Most have the option on the page you get from there. They have most on 1Lb spools. A few only come pre-tabbed, though.

A few minor changes here and there, might be a good compromise. Changing some small things every few weeks. It keeps the site looking fresh, without looking like a major overhaul. You don't want your regulars to come there and suddenly not be able to find their way around the site. Conversely you don't want it to become stale and boring. A few small changes here and there is kind of like a well manicured lawn. It just looks neat and fresh but not like it's been dug up and paved over. The site you mentioned probably has some ads, pics, links or such that are being loaded from third party servers. Your browser has to go contact any of those servers and download those ads or pics, before it can load the rest of the page. Especially if they don't have the site set up to load those things last. If any of the servers involved is running a bit slow, you're gonna wait.

Maybe these ? $300, adjustable shelves, easy assembly. <shrug>

Plus, when you're in public, the Depends will muffle the sound of the vibe?

They're certainly eye catching.