Brand Newbie!!!

[Muggs]

Hello All,

I'm recently self-employed, and I'm trying to put together a website.
The first of my problems is that I have a nice intro across the top of the
page, nice font, color, size, etc.
All looks great, but when I look at the website from another computer, my
nice intro goes to two lines, because of the smaller screen size.

As I'm sure this is one of the first problems a lot, if not most people
encounter, could someone enlighten me as to how should go about fixing it?

I'm using Word to build my site, if that helps.

Thank You,
Muggs

 

[Adrienne]

Hello All,

I'm recently self-employed, and I'm trying to put together a website.
The first of my problems is that I have a nice intro across the top of
the page, nice font, color, size, etc.
All looks great, but when I look at the website from another computer,
my nice intro goes to two lines, because of the smaller screen size.

As I'm sure this is one of the first problems a lot, if not most people
encounter, could someone enlighten me as to how should go about fixing
it?

I'm using Word to build my site, if that helps.

Thank You,
Muggs

First thing, do not use Word to build your web site. Word is for Word
Processing. Although Front Page was created to do that job, I would leave
it alone as well.

Second, go through some of the HTML tutorials, you could start at
http://www.w3schools.com . That might give you a basic understanding of
what you are trying to do.

Third, use a text editor, preferably with syntax highlighting. I happen to
prefer http://www.chami.com/html-kit . You might want to open your page in
HTML-Kit and use Tidy with the Strip Surplus Tags option.

 

[Steve Pugh]

I'm recently self-employed, and I'm trying to put together a website.
The first of my problems is that I have a nice intro across the top of the
page, nice font, color, size, etc.
All looks great, but when I look at the website from another computer, my
nice intro goes to two lines, because of the smaller screen size.

Why is it a bad thing that it goes onto two lines? What's the
alternative? That the user has to scroll horizontally? That the text
gets smaller and thus harder to read?

Post a URI so we can see why having the text wrapping is such a
problem.

As I'm sure this is one of the first problems a lot, if not most people
encounter, could someone enlighten me as to how should go about fixing it?

Don't fix it, it's working fine would be my first suggestion.

I'm using Word to build my site, if that helps.

No, that doesn't help. Word usually outputs very poor quality HTML.

Steve

 

[Muggs]

Thanks for the quick response,

OK, here goes, please don't laugh too loud.

http://home.comcast.net/~muggs828/
Also, I figured out how to hyperlink from the two small Jpeg's to large ones
using a new page, but how can I get the mouse icon to change when I hover
over the two pix on the home page to show peeps that there's a larger
version availible?

Thanks again for your help, and i will also take your and Adrienne's advice
and find a different way to create my website then using word.
But for now it's what I can do.

Muggs

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

Thanks for the quick response,

OK, here goes, please don't laugh too loud.

http://home.comcast.net/~muggs828/
Also, I figured out how to hyperlink from the two small Jpeg's to large ones
using a new page, but how can I get the mouse icon to change when I hover
over the two pix on the home page to show peeps that there's a larger
version availible?

Thanks again for your help, and i will also take your and Adrienne's advice
and find a different way to create my website then using word.
But for now it's what I can do.

You need to think carefully about this. I take it you're not designing
web sites for a living. This is what I see:
http://demo.hyweljenkins.co.uk/jf.jpg (27k)

I've scaled the image, and the black lines were added by me to show
where the visible area on my screen (1024x768) is.

If you need a web site now, get a template from somewhere and fill that
in. Or pay someone.

 

[Richard]

Thanks for the quick response,

OK, here goes, please don't laugh too loud.

http://home.comcast.net/~muggs828/
Also, I figured out how to hyperlink from the two small Jpeg's to
large ones
using a new page, but how can I get the mouse icon to change when I
hover
over the two pix on the home page to show peeps that there's a larger
version availible?

Thanks again for your help, and i will also take your and Adrienne's
advice
and find a different way to create my website then using word.
But for now it's what I can do.

Muggs

"MSO" is a new one on me. Out of curiosity I tried it in netscrape 4.7 and
it worked just fine.
To make the thumbnail a link, you'd have to use a map of the image then in
the definition of the map link to the larger image and open accordingly.

Or do it the way irfanview does:
<TD ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=BOTTOM><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,
Sans-Serif" size="-2"><A HREF="0004.html" style="text-decoration:none">
<IMG SRC="0004_t.jpg" BORDER="0" ALT="0004.html"><BR>0004.jpg<BR>299.93
KB</A></FONT></TD>

Using irfanview, you could easily create your own thumbnail sheet quick and
dirty.
add in the background and you're done.

 

[Daniel Ruscoe]

OK, here goes, please don't laugh too loud.

http://home.comcast.net/~muggs828/

The best advice I could give is ditch Word for web design. As a beginner
it'll cripple you, although probably not physically.

Learn HTML and CSS, there are plenty of excellent tutorials out there.
Or, as already suggested, grab a template from a free templates site and
go from there.

When I look at your Gallery as it is, I can't help feel it'd look so
much more professional if given a look similar to this:

http://www.byronedwards.com/p07.html (but less scary to children)

It's a simple and highly effective approach to any kind of image
gallery.

You could also do with re-wording, and adding to, your content. Your
Services page is a tad uninspiring, to say the least.

Anyway, good luck with it!