building my first site for someone comment on design and need some advice

Martin_Man said:
yes once you hit the box the text fades to gray or if you hit the text the the text fades gray one or the other.

to be honest, i am using Dreamweaver CS3 but i've learned to actually code most of the stuff on my own now. Whenever i need help or want to quickly view my work i can. Is this a good or bad thing?
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You will get purists here saying Dreamweaver is awful, but to be honest if you are happy using it, stick with it. Just use the "Split" design view and pay more attention to the Code than the design window. DW CS3 coding can end up including a load of superfluous stuff that doesn't result in a perfectly valid and well coded website but it's not as bad as a lot of folk will have you believe. :cool:

Are you using Spry for the nav bar?. You can set up the mouseover text colour change within your CSS using a:hover.
 
Nope with a few tutorial lessons i learned to do the nav alone. what is Spry?

I do tend to only use Code section of DW. I suppose in a way it also helps me to keep all the coding nice and neat rather then all over the place.

The hover code you sent me was what i wanted works great thanks mate :)
 
Martin_Man said:
what is Spry?
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Spry is an AJAX framework that was incorporated into Dreamweaver in version CS3 onwards.

AJAX is basically using javascript, XML etc to produce more dynamic and richer (and in cases efficient) web applications - animating stuff without using Flash, retrieving data without having to refresh the web page etc.

Google Maps is a good example of AJAX in action :)

I moved away from Dreamweaver after version 8 to Visual Studio, so I never had a good look at the new additions. I think the Spry framework lets you create animated navigation bars and other stuff :)
 
kkbigal said:
Spry is an AJAX framework that was incorporated into Dreamweaver in version CS3 onwards.

AJAX is basically using javascript, XML etc to produce more dynamic and richer (and in cases efficient) web applications - animating stuff without using Flash, retrieving data without having to refresh the web page etc.

Google Maps is a good example of AJAX in action :)

I moved away from Dreamweaver after version 8 to Visual Studio, so I never had a good look at the new additions. I think the Spry framework lets you create animated navigation bars and other stuff :)
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I heard XML is a usefull thing to learn i may just give it a go, do you think its worth it?

Is Visual Studio any good? How comes you changed?
 
XML is a useful thing to understand and to know how to use, so there's certainly no harm in reading up about it. However, if web design/development is something you're interested in then I would advise concentrating on HTML/CSS to start with and then look at dynamic server technologies like ASP.NET or PHP and SQL.

These let you connect to databases, retrieve and output data to your web pages and it's a very common thing to find these days.

Have a look at http://www.w3schools.com - they have tutorials and info for all the above :)

The reason I moved away from Dreamweaver to Visual Studio was because I started using ASP.NET at work for my web projects and it easily outclasses Dreamweaver for developing ASP.NETweb apps.
 
ASP.NET is server-side application development framework created by Microsoft.

It allows you to build things like e-commerce sites, data-driven applications and allows you to do many more things besides.

You want to have a form on a web page that clients fill out and store the results in a database? That's where ASP.NET comes in.

Want to send an automatic email to a client when they submit the same form? ASP.NET can do that :)
 
How about a blog where your dad can voice his opinions and ideas about the industry he's in? A section for good references from customers?

Looking good so far :)
 
My one main complaint is that I think it's a bit narrow. I would have gone for a width of 900px-ish. At 700px it looks a bit lost to me. Other than that, good work.
 
The image on the home page seems to be a couple of pixels away from the left side but then seems to meet the right side. I've also noticed that the shadow on the right has a small knick in it where the top of the image is.

using firefox
 
I see you have sorted out your mouseover situation now. :D

I would say the text size within the nav bar is still slightly too large. Maybe try dropping it down a bit?.

Also, on your "Contact Us" page when you come to that to finish off, if you intend having an online contact form you might want to look at FormToEmail as it is very easy to use and set up :-

http://formtoemail.com/

:cool:
 
He's out atm ,lol,

Really impressed with his work tho, its pusing me to get back onto making mine :) I agree on the comment RE: how to relay this to the client, when they need updates, changes etc, there is money to be made :).
 
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good tip!

If your developing sites and see other sites with cool features or css styling then its worth checking out firebug which is an add-on for Firefox you can inspect elements to see whats what. Its also great for finding mistakes in your own work :)

I recommend it, its awesome for finding out what styles are conflicting etc

Treemonkey
 
I feel proud with all the good feedback especially as this is my first time I’m building a site for a business and I’ll be continuing working on it. :D

I'll change the text in the navigation box smaller and the little glitch with the table shadow I can easily fix that.

I got hold of the client today with this example and he replys back saying 'This is exactly how i was expecting it!' so hopefully that’s a good sign :)

still got a long way to go yet
 
Treemonkey said:
good tip!

If your developing sites and see other sites with cool features or css styling then its worth checking out firebug which is an add-on for Firefox you can inspect elements to see whats what. Its also great for finding mistakes in your own work :)

I recommend it, its awesome for finding out what styles are conflicting etc

Treemonkey
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i am hunting for it now
 
Text size change in the nav bars looks much better. ;)

Just noticed too, I'd suggest some form of contact details somewhere on each page, not just tucking them all away on the "Contact Us" page. Even if it is only a clickable email address or a telephone number. :cool:
 
If you look between the home page and the service section why does the DIV position change? I don't understand this. It must be to do with the css and the DIV positioning.
 
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