Karen 123

Good luck and thanks for being one of the first WDF members to put me on the right track. I've done voluntary work on forums and in person for 20 years. There sometimes comes a time when you feel you help everyone else but don't have time left to do the projects you want to achieve. So I think you should 'go and achieve' what you want to do. All the best to ya!

Have now toned down the background to be more cream than yellow. It looks instantly better. Will be toying with ways of splitting the page with other colours - hopefully I will be back in a couple of days or so. (I need to learn a bit more about 'divs')

Thank you soooooo much for that. Very much appreciated and I will have a play with these over the next few hours. You really are a 5+Star member.

Thank you Char. I have been looking at various sites (some from this forum) and trying to note how they use colour. I will admit I'm not very good at choosing or playing with colours. Have never been art-wise. Will have a look through the colour site as suggested above, so thanks SWD for that as well.

Thank you for pointing this out. Hmmm I've noticed this creamy colour seems to show differently depending on the screen viewing. I wanted something a bit 'warmer' than the harsh glare of white. I also tried a very pale green, pale blue, pale orange etc but the creamy yellow seemed to look best. Originally I would have liked to have given the background a very subtle marble/mottled effect to take a bit off the solid colour but that's beyond my knowledge and I don't have Photoshop or PaintShop Pro to twiddle with it. Will bear in mind your advice about 'style 1, 2' etc. Thanks for your comments.

Sorry, I should add just review the home page please. My display isn't right in 1024 x 768.

Hi, Please will you take a look at this site I've just started building. I only started to learn about CSS and HTML this last week after previously using Frontpage in design view. (I've been going through tutorials picked up from this forum) I know there are still some 'icky' bits but please be gentle with me! floridadreamplace.co.uk

There's some useful views above, thank you. It's comforting to know there's things like the Whois and that designers also feel they should make the effort to meet the client. I'm trying to learn coding myself, so hopefully won't be a slave to an expert for too much longer.

I feel it's a good idea from the designer's point of view - no office space costs. But from the clients point of view, it can be difficult to communicate if they want to show or explain something they would like/or dislike. Eg. I'm not capable of designing my ideas for the layout on my PC in order to e-mail, but I could draw it on paper and post or more importantly, visit in person in order to discuss my needs and whether it's feasible or viable, or they may have better suggestions. Maybe I've just had bad experience with the designer I paid £££s for a database, as I felt he didn't listen to me or my needs. (I have a post under Looking to Hire to rectify this). I'd paid him half upfront then the rest when he asked for it which I thought was quite acceptable. After the database had been 'live' for about a week I noticed different things that weren't right/satisfactory. When I contacted him he wanted to charge me even more to recitfy what I felt were his mistakes/omissions. I gave up trying at this point, but overall felt quite ripped off. I don't want to get burnt again. Karen

I've been looking at web designers for a few months now and find that many seem to have a great website, with just an e-mail contact and mobile phone contact. They say they have a virtual office to save costs for the client. As a potential client I feel a bit uncomfortable with the thought of handing over £££'s through cyberspace without knowing a 'static' address. (Have prior bad experience of my web host disappearing into thin air). Am I being unreasonable, old fashioned, too cautious, sensible or what? Karen

Thanks Meschach, I will probably be back in a few days after I've gone through these tutorials. I just hope it ends up as easy as the old BASIC language that I learned - that made perfect sense (when I was a teenager!) and was quite easy to learn.

OK, I sort of get the gist of this but don't properly understand. I've only used Design View so presumed (wrongly maybe?) that would automatically sort out the technical bits and I wouldn't need to get involved in the coding and 'behind the scenes' bit etc. Maybe I should just get a Web Design for Dummies book, eh? This is turning out to be a pure headache. On the whole, if the website displays ok to the user and does the intended job of advertising this property and getting bookings, would it make a great deal of difference separating the CSS from XHTML ? (Hope this doesn't sound tetchy - not intended to be, but it's difficult to word). Karen

I'm sorry, but I don't know what you mean by 'styling' and 'mark up' (I'm now painfully aware of my naked ignorance, but please forgive!) Karen

I think I've done it! I'd missed off Damian's advice to 'wrap' so I've wrapped the left most picture to the left and the rest seem to magically follow suit. I think you're wonderful!

Thanks for that Bocaj I've done it. But the text is now so close to the left the first letter of each line is almost chopped off. Have I put it in the right place, it's on line 5. <head> <style> body{margin:0 auto; width:960px } I also think my problem with the pictures moving is something to do with the fact that I have inserted a picture then pressed the space bar a few times, then inserted another picture, pressed space bar again and so on (I know this is probably very amateurish). I have 6 individual pictures along the top, but it's the last one that keeps jumping onto the line below the others. I'm wondering if they are 'grouped together' (which can be done in Microsoft Publisher) whether they would automatically resize. <body bgcolor="#FFFFCC"> <p> <img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px solid" height="112" src="http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:47aq1Roa-TqrQM:http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj191/MichelleTuongVyVo/palm_tree.jpg" width="83"> <img src="http://disney.orlando4.home.att.net/astroorbiter.JPG" width="150" height="112" border="1"> <img src="http://www.unitedpassports.com/images/FloridaBeach.jpg" width="150" height="112" border="1"> <img src="http://api.ning.com/files/47GihSJ35Ix0dxgJ9eIEYLcOQNq1Wb696x9qH2VQSr9Kd12JkWUs-Udyh0jMJKeQy*Bx2LTQtNmpyJszWmAKPTK-YucRTuvW/floridagolf.jpg" width="150" height="112" border="1"> <img height="112" src="http://www.dogonews.com/files/Image/dolphin342_90453cd3923c11faf9e29d84c6cac644.jpg" width="150" border="1"> <img src="http://www.floridaestates.org/_images/disneyland_orlando_florida.jpg" width="88" height="112" border="1"></p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><font size="7">Florida Dream Place</font></p> This is the first I've ever looked at the codes, as I've only ever seen from Design View, so I'm learning. Thanks for all help so far. Karen