A good tool for (basic) website design is a Photoshop plug-in called Sitegrinder. Basically you make your website in Photoshop and assign tags to layers in order to get them to behave like a webpage. $130 or $350 for it though. But nothing will replace actually knowing CSS in depth. Having valid code when you've done it all yourself is a warm feeling inside.
1.Yes, divs can actually look better. http://www.awkwaapparel.com/ http://75.119.145.90/index.cfm http://www.consumerdebtmitigation.com/ http://www.teen211pbtc1.org/ http://75.119.144.67/ http://www.kravis.org/ A few I've worked on and created. Go read about divs and css. Until you pull it open in IE7 and everything looks broken
I don't really have trouble with IE7 any more... IE6 is still a pain of course, but the last few sites I've done have such a specific target audience that I've been able to just ignore ie6. I got to use PNG's! It was fun The most troublesome browser through was actually opera. It does some things very differently from FF, Safari and IE7. Bit of a pain really. PS: http://75.119.145.90/index.cfm The nav is a bit broken in FF3.
You get to ignore IE6?! Waaaaaa... I envy you I wish i could use PNGs more, we devised a work around for them, but the less we use, the better. And yea, the nav is a bit broken, just saw that, thanks, but that client wants to change their whole header for the 6th time now.. so we haven't bothered fixing it, it's a YUI issue.
Same. It is very similar to safari with rendering I find. Firefox tends to do what I tell it to, Chrome and Safari are both fine, but the text layout is sometimes a little off, although I guess that's just because I'm used to how Firefox does things. It was for a web application, so I get to go nuts and then we just tell people that IE6 isn't supported. (It does still work, just doesn't look so pretty.)
I think Chrome's engine is based off both the gecko engine (firefox) and the webkit engine (safari), and both webkit and gecko comply to web standards and render things more or less the same. IE6/7 don't follow web standards though, and hence why there's generally problems with those two browsers. Ahh.. yea.. we make web apps here too but we're supporting IE6 until IE8 comes out. I absolutely despise IE6, gives such headaches sometimes (specially PNGs).
What I generally like to do, when creating a layout, is creating a buncha divs, give them IDs and then give them all different color borders, and resize them as i need to, change the color to color-code each layout area, add more divs, and when I'm happy with my massive colored divs, I start adding my actual content and then I finish up by adding background pics, etc to complete the layout. After comes hours of making everything work in IE7 and IE6
dont know if your interested but that is how it looks to me ignoring the ad it really needs to be centred and an appropriate background colour selected what are you trying to create with it?
Yeh that Ad at the top is sumthing my hosting company has started doing. Never used to have adds there.
Yeh she hot aye. The template that i brought was for a clothing shop. Im changing it into a offroader website. For my Offroader buggy im building. This is my logo i have made. Going to work more on the design on weekend.
All those paid for "templates" originate from TemplateMonster -- the parent company that actually designs them. Everyone else is just part of their reseller program -- they get 20% per sale of a template. Or you can just to TemplateMonster directly. They've been around for quite awhile -- and their template packages are actually pretty impressive.
