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My First Ever Website Design - Need Advice

by Jake Howard
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G'day Warriors

After being involved with a few websites previously, I decided to bite the bullet and have a go at designing a website by scratch. I am hoping that some warriors might be able to provide me with some advice.

First of all, you can view the home page here

A couple of questions I have are:

Website Shrinking: My website shrinks, as you make the browser smaller. How do I make it so that the site is a fixed width, that doesnt shrink and reformat when the browser is reduced?

Website Width: What is the standard width that I should use for a website? Also, should i be listing the amount of pixels or doing it as a percentage.

Website Header Banner: If I want to get a Header Banner made up for the top of the website, what sort of specifcations do I have to place on it. Ie what width, what height, what sort of file, gif, or jpeg or png?

Cheers

Jake
#advice #design #website
  • Profile picture of the author Jason Clay
    Try using style="width: 600px;" to make the width of that particular element 600 pixels in width.

    Banner graphics are using in GIF, JPEG or PNG formats. Most of the time JPEGs have a .JPG extension.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
    Your site seems a little out of proportion but it's okay since it's your first attempt.

    The header is a lil big.
    So, is the footer.
    The website seems too shrinked.

    I'd advice you to rather use CSS for your menus than HTML.
    CSS isn't very hard to learn and the simplest way to do it is look at other sites. :p

    Tizag.com has a good tutorial on CSS and HTML. I learned HTML basis form there.
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    • Profile picture of the author codecre8r
      Originally Posted by Sumit_Menon View Post

      I'd advice you to rather use CSS for your menus than HTML.
      CSS isn't very hard to learn and the simplest way to do it is look at other sites. :p
      I agree and would also suggest using a table-less CSS design for your site. You will get significantly better search engine rankings by getting all of that table code out of your page. CSS designs are very clean (code wise) and put your content closer to the top of the page.

      Likewise, use CSS for your formatting because all those <font> tags really clutter up the code.

      I would also highly recommend that you add 'alt' attributes to your <img> tags and 'title' attributes to your <a> tags. Put a description of the respective image or link in these tags. This will also help you rank better for your keywords.

      Don't forget about the basics like using a meta keywords and meta description for your site.

      Good work, though. The site looks good in my opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author jerson
    looks simple. the pic was compreZ.

    but its good. try to devlop a lil bit.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alibaba
    Jay - may I suggest you look into drupal.org | Community plumbing

    great content management system very powerful, takes time to learn but well worth it.
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