Resize website

[saxman1973]

Dude, there are alot of negative people in this thread!

Jboraski, the design looks ok... alright. Don't worry about that so much. The problem you stated originally was getting the site to fit into every browser. They were right earlier when someone told you to resize to 764 pixels. 800 will still get you scroll bars, but 764 should get it just right. I measured your current design and I got 970 pixels. Thats to large. Bring it down to 764 and you'll be ok. As far as giving up, don't listen to the negative people that are posting hear. I am ashamed to say that we are all members of Web Pro World. This is the first thread that I have read that has total negativity. As you post more, you'll find out who to listen to. People like Webnauts and BJ are excellent at what they do and take great pride in their posts. I'm sorry to see they haven't posted to you yet. Maybe they took the day off.

One final note though. Yes get off of Front Page. Use Dreamweaver. I'm not saying it's the end all be all, but it is the industry standard.

We all started off somewhere in web design. I started back in 1996 and I still learn every day of the week. There is always going to be something new to learn. This is a ever eveolving industry and if you stop learning new thing then and only then should you think about quitting. Keep learning and keep posting your problems and there are plenty of people that will try and help. Just weed out the negativity.

DaveBarnes is also a good poster, but I agree that he could have been a little more tackful with what he was trying to tell you. You'll see that he posts here a bit to.

Good Luck - hope to see more posts from you

[jboraski]

Dude, there are alot of negative people in this thread!

Jboraski, the design looks ok... alright. Don't worry about that so much. The problem you stated originally was getting the site to fit into every browser. They were right earlier when someone told you to resize to 764 pixels. 800 will still get you scroll bars, but 764 should get it just right. I measured your current design and I got 970 pixels. Thats to large. Bring it down to 764 and you'll be ok. As far as giving up, don't listen to the negative people that are posting hear. I am ashamed to say that we are all members of Web Pro World. This is the first thread that I have read that has total negativity. As you post more, you'll find out who to listen to. People like Webnauts and BJ are excellent at what they do and take great pride in their posts. I'm sorry to see they haven't posted to you yet. Maybe they took the day off.

One final note though. Yes get off of Front Page. Use Dreamweaver. I'm not saying it's the end all be all, but it is the industry standard.

We all started off somewhere in web design. I started back in 1996 and I still learn every day of the week. There is always going to be something new to learn. This is a ever eveolving industry and if you stop learning new thing then and only then should you think about quitting. Keep learning and keep posting your problems and there are plenty of people that will try and help. Just weed out the negativity.

DaveBarnes is also a good poster, but I agree that he could have been a little more tackful with what he was trying to tell you. You'll see that he posts here a bit to.

Good Luck - hope to see more posts from you

Thanx Saxman....I agree with you on getting dreamweaver, frontpage is one of the worst programs I think I could have inherited. But if I can get it to work somewhat with frontpage, I am one up on all those folks with the bashing going on. I win.

[activeco]

But if I can get it to work somewhat with frontpage, I am one up on all those folks with the bashing going on. I win.

Ouch, I am sorry if you took it as bashing and if I hurt your ego in any way. That was not my intention, for sure.
I wanted YOU to win too.

[jboraski]

Ouch, I am sorry if you took it as bashing and if I hurt your ego in any way. That was not my intention, for sure.
I wanted YOU to win too.

no problemo activeco. your suggestions were knowledgable/valuable. what do you think of it now?

[activeco]

Well yes, it works now. If that's what you wanted, then you succeeded.
It's only this page doing weird.
In any case make the header more better looking and that only should attribute for a big difference.

P.S. I usually read the whole thread before replying, but somehow I skipped #18 & #20, basically saying the same thing. My apologizes.

[saxman1973]

Thanx Saxman....I agree with you on getting dreamweaver, frontpage is one of the worst programs I think I could have inherited. But if I can get it to work somewhat with frontpage, I am one up on all those folks with the bashing going on. I win.

Cool... One other thing, I was browsing through your code and I thought I should mention that it would do you and your company an immense amount of good if you where to learn CSS. I am assuming that those "style 1" and "style 2" were auto generated when you tried to apply a style to them. All of that coding that you have in the body tag (on preload) you can get rid of all of that and start implementing background images that you can type over for your buttons. This does a couple things, it helps to not bogg down the server when someone is downloading the site becasue before they can view anything they have to download all of the "on preload" items. Second, and take my word on this one as a web designer and SEO consultant, this will help you get better rankings with the Search Engines if you start to learn a few tricks like being able to apply styles to you <H> tags through the external style sheet. Learn that CSS my friend!! Learn it fast, because sooner or later you will run into someone that will ask you for a tableless design and if you don't know how, you'll lose out big becasue tableless sites are tough to make, but you get to charge more also.

L8r -Saxman

[jboraski]

Cool... One other thing, I was browsing through your code and I thought I should mention that it would do you and your company an immense amount of good if you where to learn CSS. I am assuming that those "style 1" and "style 2" were auto generated when you tried to apply a style to them. All of that coding that you have in the body tag (on preload) you can get rid of all of that and start implementing background images that you can type over for your buttons. This does a couple things, it helps to not bogg down the server when someone is downloading the site becasue before they can view anything they have to download all of the "on preload" items. Second, and take my word on this one as a web designer and SEO consultant, this will help you get better rankings with the Search Engines if you start to learn a few tricks like being able to apply styles to you <H> tags through the external style sheet. Learn that CSS my friend!! Learn it fast, because sooner or later you will run into someone that will ask you for a tableless design and if you don't know how, you'll lose out big becasue tableless sites are tough to make, but you get to charge more also.

L8r -Saxman

Yeah Saxman, i dug into some intro to CSS last night and now I understand the difference. I may be dangerous with these skills.

L8

[Kally]

Hi all,

This site is nice, a lot of data but disadvantage of site is no online purchase. I think you will improve and hope that your site will develop more and more.

[jordanmcclements]

In Firefox 3 you can now resize the web site while viewing it..

(CTRL and '+' or '-')