I'm trying to design my first site. Before anyone says anything i know my coding is probably terrible but i really don't know what i'm doing. I've almost got it looking how i want but there are a few finishing touches i need help with.

To start here is my web address: www.elitetradesmen.com

I have had someone have a look at it and they've made some improvements, only problem is i don't know how to make the changes on my site. Here is the the improved look :
http://www.it-stud.hiof.no/~benteh/tmp/test/test.html

The 2 things i want to take from the new site is
1. how the gap at the bottom below the copyright is smaller
2. when scrolling over the 3 pics they have a black box surrounding them which turns white when you mouse over them

Also i havent yet worked out, when i navigate from a trade page via the book a 'tradesmen' link on that page to the form page how i get the trade field on the page to automatically complete depending on which page i navigate there from.

any help or advice would be much appreciated.

His isn't all that different from yours visually. In fact, the 2nd one has failed to clear the floats, so #wrapper isn't 'wrapping' the rest of the site as it should.

To make more space at the bottom, add some bottom padding to #wrapper, ie: padding-bottom: 40px.

For the borders on the boxes all you need is to define a border for the <a> tag, then change the color of the border on hover - that's all that was done, really, on the 2nd one.

Originally Posted by LadynRed

For the borders on the boxes all you need is to define a border for the <a> tag, then change the color of the border on hover - that's all that was done, really, on the 2nd one.

Ok i'm happy enough with the look of the site now apart from the borders round the boxes. Using my code can you show me what i need to change it to get the border change effect. Reaaly not got a clue as to what i'm doing

Ok, well, this will work:

#picbar a img{
border: 1px solid #000;

}

#picbar a:hover img{
border: 1px solid #fff;

}

Just change the colors to what you want them to be, I just used black and white.