help, new site design, don't know what to do!!

[christoefar]

OK, I have a friend of mine doing me a new site for http://www.future-host.co.uk and there is a big white gap between the top banner/logo, and the main content, does anyone now how to sort this, the site is located here http://www.edip.co.uk/files/fh/home5.htm

Please help.

Only the homepage has been uploaded!

[paulhiles]

Wow Chris, that page's code is in a bit of a state... there are all sorts of things going on.. a few too many to list here. One major point, you have the large banner image sitting at the top of the page, that isn't contained in a div or table. Second thing to note, is that there are all sorts of IDs being called by various elements on the page.. but there isn't a trace of a stylesheet.

So I'm a bit baffled by all this quite frankly! Give that 'friend' a call.. hopefully this isn't the final draft!

Paul

[christoefar]

No this a the first draft, and I told him he had to much code in there, he blamed it on Frontpage, I think the id's all come from the mouse over effects, not sure though, he has just come on line now, so I'll talk to him about it, thanks for the help.

[technica]

FRONTPAGE! Never speak of it. Tell your friend that Frontpage is the most worthless publishing tool you can use. I had it, then switched to Dreamweaver. My god, how many things Frontpage did TOTALLY WRONG... Tell him to switch if he is serious about his code...

[christoefar]

Yes that is what he has done now, he has started my site again, because the code was to messy, he now realizes that Frontpage is really for beginners, and uses dreamweaver mx 2004, which he says is Miles better,

[weegillis]

The only thing for beginners is NOTEPAD.

Throw out the WYSIWYG's until you can understand every inch of code they're creating.

Start clean, build from scratch, follow the rules, and everything will turn out just as you want.

Editors are for sissy's (kidding!!!) rofl