Looking for Help with a Border around my site

[topspinsports]

Hey everyone,

My site has been in the works for quite some time and I slowly make changes to it. Just tonight I centered it in the browser. The good part about that is that its more pleasing to the eye. The bad news is that there really are no "boundries" to the site.

Please check out and see what I mean. Tennis Lessons, Videos, and Tips from Pros (http://topspinsports.com)

Im assuming the best option is to put a border around it. Something to contain the site it. But i dont like the look of just a simple border.

I am also not a programer or web designer. Im just a dude with a website!

Are there any suggestions on how to make an aesthetically pleasing border???

Thanks!
Steve Viglione

[neatten]

I'm sorry. I don't get your point. I visited your site bit found no border whatsoever. What borders are you talking about?

Kindly elaborate.

[topspinsports]

Right lol

The problem is: There is no border encasing the entire page (left and right side). Maybe it does not need any type of border, but I notice some websites have graphics as borders and stuff that looks like more than just a simple "grey line"

Or

The site may look fine as is.

Just curious what your thoughts were. If you think it needs a border around it, are there any options besides just a line.


Thanks all,

Steve

[neatten]

Your site looks fine without borders. :-P

[simonlogan]

You could get something along the lines of our site (Web design Edinburgh and Website design Edinburgh by Arcas Computing Ltd. (http://www.arcas.co.uk)) which has a faint line on each side then a graded background fading off on either side.

I've used this a few times on sites we've worked on as it's not as heavy as a thick black border and eases the border into whitespace around it. If you do something like this you'll need to wrap the whole content area in a DIV with margins set to auto to centre it all then perhaps another container DIV inside this to create the border effect.

Not sure what program(s) you've been using to build the sit but as general guidance you should try and keep all your CSS styles in a seperate document rather than embedding them on the page itself as you have just now, also it looks like the style names have been created automatically and are all numbered which isn't great - you're better to have something descriptive like "headerText" rather than "style1055". Also try and avoid inline styles where possible.

[topspinsports]

actually that site you just showed me is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Im not exactly sure how to do the <div> thing though :(

Thanks

Steve