Hello forum,

 

I am not sure if this is the right place but I need help styling my website, I am just completely stuck trying to come up with an idea which will pool good!:/

 

leoliens.com/leopard_home.php

 

I am quite pleased with how the style is at the moment but I want to split up the main three categories ( Home, Leopard, Alien) into sub categories such as recent posts, about, etc. But I have no idea how to do this and keep it fitting in with the style of the website... I have left a space for it underneath the three headings, to the left of the search bar.

 

Any ideas what I can do here and keep it matching the style of the website.

 

Thank you for any help!

I see where you have the made a space left of the search bar, I think this is a good place. Perhaps you could add buttons for each sub category here? Green ones on the 'Alien' page, and orange on the 'Leopard'.

 

Or, you could always try adding dropdowns to the main menu.

 

 

Just ideas!

what would be the "must have" softwear i need to learn to design web pages?

and what book would u recommend?

i wanna help in the house economy by designing web sites.

i have a small e mac

thank you! ; )

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Edited April 2, 201115 yr by Wickham

Learn by example.

 

Take a good looking website you like the look of and view the source. Try experimenting with it to change bits of it.

 

The only software a good developer needs is NOTEPAD.

 

Software i would recommend for designers would be Photoshop (Or another image editing program similar).

 

These are the only 2 things i use apart from the odd FLASH header.

Hello Darell,

 

I am the project manager of a web design company. I suggest you to get reference from internet than books. It is tough to learn designing by reading books. you would find a tons of tutorials available over internet.

 

 

Happy to help.

 

Sandipan

Edited April 2, 201115 yr by Wickham

Hey guys, thanks for your help..

 

I've added an idea for the buttons so take a look and see what you think!

 

I also listened and updated the text style, so take a look and tell me what you think!

And Darrel, my website is made completely in notepad.

 

The images which make the background and the buttons where made in GIMP which is a free version of Photoshop.

 

However, if you are new to CSS I would recommend installing visual studio, this will give you auto complete on some CSS phrases so you know what to put in, again this is free software.

 

Also, if you find a wall of code daunting check out notepad++, which will split your code up into colours.