Hello, I have bee working on this site with my girlfriend.

As I have posted before, i am young, and still learning a lot.

The website is Help This World Go Green .com - your source for Go Green tips and products - home

I have some questions. Is it illegal to do what i did, and take content from another website and put it on mine? even tho I placed a link to the original source at the bottom? Should I write out the whole URL? or should I just come up with my own content for the tips pages? Let me know soon please.. I don't feel like getting sued.

Also, another question I had is if there is an easier way to manage a navigation menu. Maybe with using php?(which i currently know few things of). Because if I find myself needing to add another page to the site, I have to open every single html page in notepad++.exe and manually add a new navigation link to every single one of my pages. Which of course, takes a lot of time.

And lastly, i have the merchants listed in 5 different categories. and the first category "home & personal" has about 6 sub-categories. making that page really long. Should I leave it organized with anchor links how it is now, or make each sub category it's own page? Or, if any of you guys know any easier, and quicker to load way of organizing stuff. i would appreciate any help.

I'm sorry if i'ts hard to understand what I'm asking. Spanish was my first language, and i am pretty new to web design.

Thanks in advanced & god bless,

Daniel Ferrer

Yes. Even if it's the old Latin lorem ipsum or "blah blah" I would strongly suggest using a placeholder that is not copyrighted information while you generate unique content.

An inexpensive or free program (but not notepad) can do a global find-n-replace, which makes that less painful, or yeah you can use includes in PHP, which is more the "like CSS" way to do things.

You could save a click or two (depends on how big this is planned to be, terms of page count) with a menu instead of a linear click path. Random example: http:// dhtml-menu [dot] com/dhtml-tree/

Tenga un buen dia!

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I use a program called "Notepad++" *note: the plus plus* which is supposedly designed for html, or programming like perl or c++ and stuff like that. So i guess it probably has that global find & replace you're talking about. I'll have to play with it some more.

what do you think about the site design? I tried to make it as simple as possible, so that its fast loading, and displays the information needed.

Is there any design changes that you would recommend? or maybe better coding techniques?

I'm sorry if I'm asking to much of you guys. I just really want to improve in every way possible.
i guess I should just do the research myself, and look at design and coding techniques of some professionally designed websites.

and one last question, did I go wrong in laying it out with css instead of tables? or no..

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muchas gracias por tu ayuda chiron!

Have not used it in years, but I remember notepad++ so here's a link that may help:

http:// notepad-plus.wiki.sourceforge.net/FindReplaceNewlineHowTo (find and replace in notepad++)

The site is simple. I think that's fine, especially considering your subject matter. I would, however, pull your logo out of the image and put it in the top-left, in part because it will look better, in part because I sense you might not have the programs or tools to do a background glow on that layer, which would help it pop from the background.

The image is a bit long, but I am personally fine with that, again considering audience. Might consider "trimming the grass" 100px or so to make sure people see there is something to scroll down to; also, the nav bar is hidden. Since it floats, I would go "no rounded corners" and a deep lush green with white link font, or something along those lines.

"Tips" redraw jiggles (not centered the same way by a few pixels) compared to the other main sections, click around on the menu, you will see what I mean.

Tengo que irme por ahora, ciao y buena suerte.

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Use Server Side Includes.
They make it trivial.
Just search the web for "Server Side Includes" or "SSI"

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