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Slaskia
1  1:37am 08/10/04        
N00b eating Ru'Tyra
Off and on I've been working on revamping my site. It's a slow and painful process...both due to lack of ideas and motivation.

I have a handful of pages I have roughly finished and I would like opinions on in terms of color themes and layout. Please ignore the ads: as soon as I finish deciding on the layout I intend to either move to a new host or start paying to be rid of the ads altogether.

<a href="http://www11.brinkster.com/slaskia/Main1.html">-Main page-</a>
<a href="http://www11.brinkster.com/slaskia/Tester/Fandomtest.html">-Fandom-</a> (For fan fiction and such)
<a href="http://www11.brinkster.com/slaskia/Tester/Starwarsf.html">-Star Wars-</a>
<a href="http://www11.brinkster.com/slaskia/Tester/creativeimag/CIindex.html">-Creative Images-</a> (Art)

I am open to ideas for the pages I don't have layouts for. (note: the Black Hole I do have a layout Idea for, which will be like <a href="http://www11.brinkster.com/slaskia/Misc/Misc.html">this</a> or <a href="http://www11.brinkster.com/slaskia/File13/Index.html">this</a>)
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Kas
2  3:12am 08/10/04        
Internaut
Well, I see you're fairly adept with manipulating images, which will certainly help you as you get further in. I would suggest going with more of a 'contained' look, rather than just centering everything in your <p> tags. Only the 'Misty Realms' page has this right now.

I would also drop the tables, and use a purly CSS-based method. Because of IE's lack of CSS support you may have to cheat in some places (like centering div's), but overall you'll get code that's much, much easier to maintain. I did some work on my band's website today, and if I had used tables to create it originally, what took an hour would have easily taken three.
Kas
3  3:12am 08/10/04        
Internaut
Well, I see you're fairly adept with manipulating images, which will certainly help you as you get further in. I would suggest going with more of a 'contained' look, rather than just centering everything in your &#60;p&#62; tags. Only the 'Misty Realms' page has this right now.

I would also drop the tables, and use a purly CSS-based method. Because of IE's lack of CSS support you may have to cheat in some places (like centering div's), but overall you'll get code that's much, much easier to maintain. I did some work on my band's website today, and if I had used tables to create it originally, what took an hour would have easily taken three.
Leia Organa Solo
4  9:42am 08/10/04        
Jedi Master
Wow Slas has got it going on with those images there.... the finished product should be something else.

TMNT = Ninja turtles? Cuz I loooove ninja turtles ;)

And then I went to Kas's site, which of course looks like it was done by a professional, (who would expect any less?) and I inevitably wound up in the picture section. There I saw several people singing to a multicolored but very nice flower print towel. And I laughed. Nice setup!


But both of you have very nice sites indeed. :)
Slaskia
5  12:07pm 08/10/04        
N00b eating Ru'Tyra
I'll be honest and say I absolutely hate tables and the only reason I use them at all is because I lack the CSS know-how to arrange the images on the main page without using tables. It doesn't help I have to 'relearn' what I do know about CSS every time I decide to work on my site, since it's usually months between sessions.

Thankfully I have faved a couple of very good sites that teach you how to use CSS (boogiejacks and W3Schools Online Web Tutorials), so I am not completely lost when I get around to working on my site again.

Thanks Leia. Yay another Turtle fan! Theysa are the ones that got me started writing and drawing seriously, yet I don't really have much in terms of art work or fiction on them...:(
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Kas
6  1:36pm 08/10/04        
Internaut
There I saw several people singing to a multicolored but very nice flower print towel.
Actually, it's a pillow cover. It was drafted for use as a pop screen. :)
I'll be honest and say I absolutely hate tables and the only reason I use them at all is because I lack the CSS know-how to arrange the images on the main page without using tables.
I can help you with that, if you need it. CSS positioning is more of an art form than a science, really. It's not at all as logical as tables, but in the long run it can be far more flexable.