Eye-Catching Extras

Some of Our Websites

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Summer Hill Boarding Kennels
Induna Affenpinschers
Hill Farm Boarding Kennels
Cosy Kennels and Cattery
Thornwood Farm Boarding Kennels
Aramaic Afghan Hounds

There are lots of eye-catching features that can be added to your website, but they need to be used carefully or will end up being irritating and driving your visitors away.

Image Galleries

A website is all about images supporting the text. The more high-quallity images you have the better your site will perform. Galleries are the perfect way of displaying lots of images on one page.

The Lightbox (click on Summer Hill Kennels, left) is a beautiful and elegant solution. The page background becomes semi-opaque whilst the first image opens up on the screen, the visitor can then navigate through the gallery.

There are other gallery/slideshow solutions which are more subtle and less dramatic, in addition to the Flash Slideshow we feature on the home page.

Text Tricks

The scroll box at the top right of the page can have any number of messages rotating; every message can be clickable through to another page or site.

Dynamic Text

The title to this page is in dynamic text to draw the eye.

This can be used anywhere; any colours are possible; for example, you can hide the text on your page so it appears to be scrolling, either appearing or disappearing.

No Right Click

If you don't want your page or your images copied, then there are ways of disabling the right click function. This can be with or without an alert. The drawback of the alert is that it can look unfriendly, and you would like your visitor to stay a while longer!

For this page we have disabled right-clicking on images and enabled an alert. Try it and see.

Print Button

does what it says! Useful for pedigrees, price lists, printing off forms and so on.

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Forms and Captcha

Booking, contact and enquiry forms can all be added to your site, with the additional security of a captcha to prevent spamming.

A captcha is a randomised collection of numbers and letters that cannot be read by computers harvesting email addresses. These are used to protect you from spam.

Free Scripts

For many of these features, and plenty more, Dynamic Drive is a superb resource. Just check for cross-browser compatibility.