NewYorkSamurai

I live in New York City. It's nice here. But I've lived in this area my entire life. Gonna be 27 years old at the end of this year. So I've decided to pick up and move to Cali. Specifically San Diego, maybe LA. I know, almost, nobody out on the west coast and I suppose that's the appeal. it's a chance for me to do something I've never done before. Once I secure a job out there, I'm going to buy a car and drive out. I currently work for Hilton, so I'm looking to transfer through Hilton to get out there. The most exciting part of the plan is the drive. It's a 10 day trip across the country, all alone. I'm going to drive the Interstate 70 and stop in every major city along the way. Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Las Vegas... It's gonna be sweet. Anyone ever done this trip before? Anyone have any words of wisdom?

my vote is for the 2nd design. the first one appears to have a lot of unnecessary elements at the top and it looks as if it's trying very hard to appear High-Tech. The second one gets right into the content, no confusing navigation elements, and the colors seem to agree with me more (personal preference).

I'm still so new at web design and I'm really discouraged every time i create something and then view it in IE7 to see all my work undone by this crap browser. I'm attempting my first paid design project for a small law firm here in New York, and I know that this firm and anyone who may view their site will probably be viewing through IE7. According to this site about 33% of internet viewers use IE6 and 7, and only a tiny portion are using 8. It's great to see so many people on Firefox, but I just know that the demographic I need to be catering to, particularly on this project, will most likely be in the IE realm. How much longer will designers and developers have to put up with this crap? What is an aspiring designer to do in the meantime? Code the website twice? Once for proper browsers and again for IE? I can't wait until IE is dead and gone.

wow.. i just stumbled upon this meta tag that basically takes care of that. I didn't know that IE8 still renders certain pages as IE7 would based on how your might have previously viewed it. <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> in the head section nullifies that. And now I'm in good shape.

I did a search on the site, still didn't find anything. I thought that IE8 was supposed to support the display property (such as display: table) in CSS. Every CSS discussion out there says so, every article about IE8 says so, but when i actually look at my own creations, it renders it the same way as older versions of IE. What gives?

In my book, when it discussed transitional vs strict etc.. i didn't understand it very well and so i paid it less attention. I still, to this moment, do not understand what the differences are and which is more useful than the other? Can you point me to some reference that would clear this up for me?

redesigned site but it looks the way I want it to in IE

I stumbled across this website all about floats and it's helped me a great deal so far. Floatutorial

I've managed to get the page to look correct in Firefox, but IE6 is a completely different story. The orange rectangle is the wrong size, the main image is not centered, the copyright notice is off to the right. anyone know of a good reference for debugging for IE6?

it's looking better when i use "position: relative", but what i don't like about relative is how things are vertically one after the other, rather than being independent. The Blurb and the Sidebar List are both set as "top: 140px". When they are both "position: relative" the blurb is physically located just beneath the sidebar. is there a way around that?

Boyles suggested a way to center my page in another thread. Essentially I put all of my html code that appears within the body tags and wrap them in an all encompassing container div element. Then, in my CSS file, i auto-margin both sides of the container div. In my new site design, I'm trying to do this. It works beautifully on the background image I'm using which I need to be dead center in the page. Everything else, however, is P****** me off. The example below is how i last left it. Background image is centered on its own. The blue james brown image is static due to it's Left style property, the same goes for the blurb of text. The list is the result of trying some percentage values, hoping that might work, but it definitely did not. can someone shed some light on my dilemma? Test Site

The monitor I'm using is a 22inch wide screen. It's huge. I operate at a resolution of 1680x1050. This is not ideal for web design. Proof of that is my webpage. I need to redesign it a bit and the main thing i wanna tackle is the size of the page. What is the average viewers screen size and resolution? What is the ideal pixel size of a web page so that the average user can enjoy what they see without any unnecessary scrolling?

yeah, still no word from Erwin. Liquid's probably right about his priorities.

Erwin hasn't called me back yet, and that night with the chick totally sucked.

it's not a date, she works with me and we're going to a club tonight with other people from work. aaaaand i want her. that's all happening very late tonight, so i won't know for quite some time. but i feel really good today, especially after getting a good haircut and approaching Erwin about his site. I hope the good streak continues.

Well, I went to the barbershop. My hair is lookin' tight as always. There really wasn't much of a sale pitch or site discussion. I was waiting for my turn and I hollared at Erwin. He was immediately enthused with the thought of someone taking interest in his website. He mention wanting someone to "touch it up". We all know it needs more than "touching up" so I mentioned I had some cool ideas for him. He took my number and said he'd call me later today. That's fine, because I assume he wants to really talk business and he chose not to do it in front of his employees and other customers. I'm not going to expect any free haircuts. Erwin is the owner and a barber, but not the barber who cuts my hair. My barber is Moses. Erwin only cuts my hair when Moses is gone for the day. I would want this website to negatively affect Moses' income.

that's not a bad idea. I was thinking of doing profiles of the barbers that work there with photos and biographies. Maybe a flash music player. I'm not certain, but I think Erwin has 2 barbershops. I wanted to do sister sites or maybe a Jekyll and Hyde thing, each shop being the alter ego of the other shop. I'll let you guys know how it goes. Wish me a bit of luck please, if not for this, then with the super hot chick I'm trying to get with later today. :crossfingers:

I'm getting my haircut tomorrow. I'll give him the sales pitch while I wait.

everything makes sense except for why your container is 80% with 20px margins.

i might take that advice and center it. I do not, however, understand container. It's not covered well in the book that I'm using. What does it do and how will it effect my site?

I agree completely. The friends I graduated with from my design class have all given up on their dreams and I'm left here to work on my own and it is extremely difficult to get a second opinion on things that I create. I want to be in an environment where I can bounce ideas off my colleagues and create strong designs and feel better about what I create knowing that it's been approved by a second set of eyes.

The site is complete garbage. If you go to the contacts page, the navigation bar no longer works. Half the information on the site isn't even correct such as the address of the shop. The site says "70 Grant St" the actual address should be "170 Grand St". I have no idea who built this site for him, but I certainly hope it didn't cost any money. And so, assuming I build this site for him for free, I could still charge him fees for maintaining and updating the site, right?

My barber has a terrible website. Erwin's Barbershop It's been bugging me for a long time and now that I'm cutting my teeth in web design, I'd like to use him as my first client. I'm going to speak with him this week and offer to build a new site for him. Discussing this with my father, we decided that since I'm new and inexperienced I can offer to do this guy's website for free, but of course keep my name all over it, use it as an addition to my portfolio, and use the barber for networking. Essentially I'm looking to you guys for words of wisdom. You've been in my shoes, what would you do?

A fine explanation. Thank you. I'm gonna start doing that from now on.

you're right I did. It didn't fix the border issue. It was Thomas' suggestion that fixed it, but I decided to leave the code in there.