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Old 04-14-2008, 11:37 PM Help me build; not quite a review!
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I am pretty n00b to web designing, but I like to tinker around in it enough and know a good deal more than the average joe blow.

I am building a site for a friend that makes web comics (if you have a web comic script for like archiving comics and displaying them, I would have your babies and pay for the child support as well!) and I am using Dreamweaver CS3. I am not too familiar with CSS yet so please forgive if as I build the site I just copy over individual HTML pages and edit. I will have to learn CSS as time progresses.

Right now I only have part of the home page done but I have some issues and questions. First the link, http://www.wowyoureugly.com/test/

Okay. First issue is when, in the table
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td width="720" background="images/newsmiddle.png" bgcolor="951515"><div align="center"></div></td>
if I seem to put more than one line of text it seems to drag the table instead of going down to a second line like a word document. Why? And how can I fix this?

Secondly, I want to a small image next to the table without being part the table (to the right) but when I put it in Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver wants to put it UNDER the table, not what I want!

Thirdly, general issues. I am totally unexperienced and I might be doing things I might not be wanting to do and getting into the habit of doing, please help me if you spot big ones!

Fourthly, I have heard a lot of % width. How does it work...? I tried to use it but I am so confused. None of my stuff seems to line up right when I use it, it's just so confusing to me that I have just stuck to my permanent 900px wide web site design habit.

Not much of a review but more suggestions. I am not going for a blockbuster ground breaking site but a generally good made and good looking site would be nice.
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Old 04-15-2008, 03:02 PM Re: Help me build; not quite a review!
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css is a pain in the ***, I'm still learning it myself. A great way to learn css is to download premade templates and then 'tweek' them in different ways to figure out how they work.

1st issue - I don't really understand what you mean by 'drag' the table so I'm going to have to skip this problem, sorry.

2nd issue - Since you are working in css you will need to create a new css table, or see if it will let you add a column to the pre-existing table.

3rd issue - The only problem I can see is the text is overlapping the edge of the background table. If you adjust the 'padding' reading for this it should fix it. Don't ask me the code for that though, I'm still in the 'tweeking' phase and not the 'writing' phase of css.

4th issue - % is pretty easy. Imagine a apple pie.. You have 100% of the pie. If you cut it in 4 equal pieces, and take a piece out, then you only have 75% of the pie left. % in web design is pretty much the same way. Since people can resize their screen to any size, the % keeps everything scaled correctly. So if you tell one table to stay at 80% the total space given, it will always be 20% smaller than the total space allowed. Pretty easy huh?

On the 'comics' issue, there are several website comic software packages out there, some even for FREE. So do a search on 'comic hosting software' you'll find a few I'm sure. I have a comic site as well but I didn't like the software because of the layout my comic uses. It just looked all wrong, so I ended up using wordpress and made my own theme. Except for my site being a bit too wide, it works great.
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Old 04-15-2008, 03:49 PM Re: Help me build; not quite a review!
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I suggest dropping your table-based layout. You don't have to learn table-less CSS layouts, but you'll get a lot more support from the forums.

Some places to start

free templates - http://oswd.org
more templates - http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/page_layouts/
layout generator - http://csscreator.com/tools/layout
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