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Those links are fantastic, thanks so much for them. Steve25: Perhaps for a little visual interest you could create so simple art nouveau styled silhouette design for the header, the art has always struck me as a possessing a nice simple and organic feel with a lot of visual punch. I found this with a quick google search, i love this sort of stuff:

I was with 123-reg for a while, i found them to be a waste of money, terrible service, it would take days (or on more than one occasion a whole week) for them to answer the simplest of questions. I'm with Dreamhost now, so far they have been fantastic, quick to respond to questions, i can host multiple domains under one account, which is great for me as i want to create a portfolio of sites, the only thing they can't do is register .co.uk domains, so i bought one through 123-reg and then pointed the nameservers towards Dreamhost!

I don't really trust hard drives as a means of backing up data in the long term, anything with moving parts will eventually fail, so i back up to DVD pretty often (it's about time i do it again as well i think), the only thing i'm fairly lazy about backing up is my music, i'd hate to loose it all, but it's not as important to me as my .PSD files, photos, and work.

Transformers was king back in the day, Optimus Prime was the daddy. was pretty pimp as well

Is your full name Edward Elizabeth Hitler? and do you live in Hammersmith? My name is Krillin, it's my bboy (breakdancer) name/tag/handle, there is a character from a Japanese manga called Dragonball who is kinda short and sports a shaven head, a mate of mine called me Krillin one day and i thought "well i've been called worse!", so i used it from that point on

Well i do know who those people are! Stephen Fry for one is a legend and Jimmy Carr would be a goldmine of humor! I've been trying to decide if i want to bother signing up for yet another social networking site, the only real reason i would is to follow Gabe from Penny Arcade, beyond that though i have no reason, i'm pretty tired of facebook for that matter, i only enjoy Mixi as it's a Japanese site like facebook but it gives me a reason to keep studying that damn language!

Right, think i've finally got the main content looking as it should, the footer is still giving me a little grief but i figure if i mess around with the margins or the padding (or just create a new class for the ie.css stylesheet) i should be alright. Cheers for the heads up about Firebug, i already use the Web Developer add on for Firefox, but editing pages on the fly? that sounds fantastic! I can't install any software on the library computers sadly, so i won't be able to try out the IE Developer Toolbar, but i am thinking of picking up a copy of Code Weavers Crossover for mac, it will let me run windows programs without the need for an expensive Windows OS license, hopefully then i won't be making multiple trips into city just to test my damn site! haha Cheers again.

Do you have a URL for the site we can view for ourselves? Looking at the source code is the only real way you'll find an answer to the problem. Also, if possible ditch the use of tables, this isn't the 90's anymore!

Hey thanks for your reply, it really helped me. I figured out why i could not see the navigation bar after some trial and error, i'd set the height of the header to 70px, it's now at 135px and looks so much better for it. I do have a question, how did you figure out the .cont_700_top is inheriting a font-size of 18px? i would like to know so i can make sure i don't make a mistake like this again. I cycled back and forth from the library a few times today, my legs are killing me! but i did manage to get a lot done, and think the site is looking a lot better for it, i changed a couple more things since i returned home but i won't be able to check them till tomorrow, as far as i'm aware though i only need to sort out the footer section. Thanks again, i owe you a beer.

What Rufus said is pure gold, those early brainstorming sessions on paper, banging out ideas can save hours if not days of headaches later. Know what you want before you start writing the html and css and go from there.

Hi everyone, i'm currently having an annoying problem with a site i'm working on, i've got it looking and working just fine in Firefox, Safari and Opera, but when i viewed it in Internet Explorer it clearly isn't displaying as i need it. The problem starts with the header, i have a div class holding a simple .gif at the top of the page and what i want is the next div, holding the pages header, to display directly below it, but it is appearing with a massive gap between the two, the same problem carries on down through the page, it is very annoying. Here is a screengrab of the problem: Here is a link to the site: sushikids.co.uk I have checked and validated all the HTML and CSS through the W3C website and it said it's just fine so i don't really know what it is i'm doing wrong. Before i could easily check any site i was working on with my housemates PC, and through trial and error eventually get the problem solved, but he has moved out since then, so now i have to cycle into the city center and view the site on the PC's in the central library, it's not easy going back and forth trying to guess whats wrong but it's keeping me fit!! I thought it might be something to do with the div margins but nothing i do seems to affect it, i've tried creating a special IE.CSS file but again, no luck, i'm not sure what to try next. #header { height: 70px; padding: 0px; } #header_accross { width: 700px; height: 100%; margin: 0; } /* Site Navigation */ #navigation { width: 100%; height: 30px; } .site_nav ul { font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } .site_nav ul li { float: left; list-style-type: none; } .site_nav a { display: block; background: url(images/navigation-button2.gif) no-repeat top left; padding: 0px; padding-top: 5px; width: 140px; height: 30px; text-align: center; } .site_nav a:hover { background-position: -140px 0px; } .site_nav a.active { background-position: -280px 0px; } .site_nav a.active2 { color: #f0a2d0; } /* Main Content Boxes */ .cont_700 {width: 700px;} .cont_700_top {width:700px; height: auto; padding: 10px 0 0 0;} .cont_700_top_bkg {background: url(images/rounded-top.gif) top no-repeat;} .cont_700_mid {width: 700px; background:url(images/container-mid.png) repeat-y #f0a2d0;} .cont_700_bot {width: 700px; height: 10px;} .cont_700_bot_bkg {background: url(images/rounded-bottom.gif);} Part of the IE.css #header { margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } .cont_700 {margin: 0;} .cont_700_top {margin: 0;} .cont_700_top_bkg {margin: 0;} .cont_700_bot {margin: 0;} .cont_700_bot_bkg {margin: 0;} <!-- ///////////////// START OF HEADER SECTION ////////////////////////// --> <div class="cont_700"> <div class="cont_700_top cont_700_top_bkg"> </div><!-- cont_700_top end div --> </div><!-- cont_700 end div --><!-- This cont_700 div is used to give the header a rounded top, recycle yo --> <div id="header"> <div><a href="index.html"><img src="index/images/header02.jpg" alt="sushi love dot co dot uk" /></a></div> <div id="navigation"> <div class="site_nav"> <ul> <li><a href="index.html" class="active active2" title="Home">Home</a></li> <li><a href="#" title="History">History</a></li> <li><a href="#" title="Sushi Types">Sushi Types</a></li> <li><a href="#" title="Making Sushi">Making Sushi</a></li> <li><a href="#" title="Links">Links</a></li> </ul> </div><!-- site_nav end div --> </div><!-- navigation end div --> </div><!-- header end div --> <!-- ///////////////// END OF HEADER SECTION ////////////////////////// --> Cheers for any help.

Wizely: Really? what are you viewing the site on? could you take a screengrab for me please? MolotovRuss: Cheers mate, yeah i might just do that to be honest, it wouldn't be hard and it'd solve my worries about search engines missing it. PureDezigner: Really? i have tested it on Firefox, Opera and Safari on my mac and it displays fine, on my housemates mac laptop (Firefox again) and there were no problems, and on my other housemates PC (Firefox and IE), again with no issues, could you take a screengrab for me so i could see it? cheers. Again, thank you everyone for taking time to look at my site, appreciate it

Thank you all for checking out my work, and yes, i know that the site could be easily built using HTML and CSS, but the point of this exercise for me is to build a portfolio that show i have a grasp of Flash About the search engine thing, i've been thinking about that, i remember reading about using an image replacement technique so that you could use jpegs/gifs of fancy looking fonts for header tags while screen readers could still read the regular text hidden underneath. I've read on several websites that while Flash looks great, it doesn't really allow people who are blind, etc, to view the contents of the site as the screen readers cant "see" any content, this also includes search engine spiders who can only read text, so as a result your page drops in ranking, so what i'm thinking is include a basic HTML block of text hidden within a couple of spans that holds all the important information and links that the flash site does. I don't know, is this a good idea?

I like the look of it, are you going to be using html and css to build it or will it be done using Flash? just curious.

I really like the style of the site, nice and clean, very uncluttered. I would love to know how you go about switching the entire look of the site through css like you have here, it's a really nice touch, i'm going to have to look into that!

Hi everyone, thanks to the very cool and friendly help and advice that the members of this board provide (cheers by the way) i've been able to overcome quite a few actionscript hurdles and have now got a lovely Flash site to show for it, please check it out and let me know what you think ok? The site is for the Leeds University Union Breakdance Society, now i know theres nothing groundbreaking on it, but i still like it, i think it's pretty! Cheers.

It all depends upon the style of art you'd be using to illustrate in, and if you're going to be printing these yourself or getting a company to print them for you, they may have specific requirements you have to adhere to. Personally, i use Photoshop for all my art as i love to digitally paint, it's a raster based program so unless i work at a really high resolution to start out with it's going to have problems scaling the art up, but reducing it will always work fine, others use Illustrator which is also very good, it's a vector based program so art can be shrunk or enlarged as much as you like. However, if you're looking for a down and dirty low tech approach to doing some t-shirt design, then i highly recommend this tutorial here for "tattooing" onto the t shirt using nothing more than a stencil and bleach!! Pretty sweet right?