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I design my own websites on Dreamweaver and everytime I look at my website on another computer the things I designed (i.e. pictures, layers, frames, etc.) are out of place or the font is completely changed. What do I need to do in order for my wesbite to be uniform on every computer? Is there an HTML code that prevents this from happening?

Your site will never look the same on all computers but nevertheless there are things you can do to make it more consistent.

Different browsers will show your site differently so test your code in at least IE6, IE7 and Firefox.

Differently-sized monitors will show your site differently. Decide whether you want a liquid layout or a fixed-width layout or a mix of both: this will depend on how much and what kind of content your site is to have. If it’s fixed-width a good maximum width is 800pixels.

Always test to make sure your html and css code validates 100%.

Stop using Frames, they are obsolescent and generally problematic.

Separate content and style. Content markup (div, h1, h2, p tags etc) goes in the html; all styling information (size, color, background images, fonts, widths, borders etc) goes in the css stylesheet. Don’t use tables for page layout.

The first instruction in your css stylesheet should reset all margins and padding to zero i.e.

* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

Then for h1, h2, p tags etc you can set specific margins/padding instead of the browsers using their own default settings.

Don’t try to control the design too much. For example use % or em to set font sizes, never an exact number of pixels e.g. 14px. That way a partially-sighted user can increase the text size to make your site more readable to them.

You shouldn’t need to instruct visitors which browser or screen resolution to use, not if you’ve got the design right. You only tend to see this on really amateur sites.

I design my own websites on Dreamweaver and everytime I look at my website on another computer the things I designed (i.e. pictures, layers, frames, etc.) are out of place or the font is completely changed. What do I need to do in order for my wesbite to be uniform on every computer? Is there an HTML code that prevents this from happening?

Your site will never look the same on all computers but nevertheless there are things you can do to make it more consistent.

Different browsers will show your site differently so test your code in at least IE6, IE7 and Firefox.

Differently-sized monitors will show your site differently. Decide whether you want a liquid layout or a fixed-width layout or a mix of both: this will depend on how much and what kind of content your site is to have. If it’s fixed-width a good maximum width is 800pixels.

Always test to make sure your html and css code validates 100%.

Stop using Frames, they are obsolescent and generally problematic.

Separate content and style. Content markup (div, h1, h2, p tags etc) goes in the html; all styling information (size, color, background images, fonts, widths, borders etc) goes in the css stylesheet. Don’t use tables for page layout.

The first instruction in your css stylesheet should reset all margins and padding to zero i.e.

* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

Then for h1, h2, p tags etc you can set specific margins/padding instead of the browsers using their own default settings.

Don’t try to control the design too much. For example use % or em to set font sizes, never an exact number of pixels e.g. 14px. That way a partially-sighted user can increase the text size to make your site more readable to them.

You shouldn’t need to instruct visitors which browser or screen resolution to use, not if you’ve got the design right. You only tend to see this on really amateur sites.

I want to learn about website design where can I take a quick course to learn about it?

I don’t want to enroll in college.

I am looking for a dedicated course toward practical website design that would last a couple of days/weeks.

Long Island, Rockland, or New York City areas will do. Even better would be to show me a website that has listings of these kind of courses.

Here is a website the teach you how to design a webpage http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online/steps.htm

The Katherine Gibbs school offers a program in it at http://gibbs-ny.college-info.org/&key=go-geo&kid=GOG0002100985&text=Free%20Info%20on%20Art%20and%20Design%20Programs%20Starting%20Soon%20in%20NY

As does Kaplan University http://getinfo.kaplan.edu/Microsite_B/is_technology.aspx

and here is a list from Collegesurfing.com http://www.collegesurfing.com/ce/search/results.php

Good Luck!!!

I want to professionalize in computer graphic design (more appropriately for website design and visuals) but I want to know if it also involves a lot of drawing. I am not experienced at drawing sketches at all, but I am decent when it comes to manipulating/editing/creating images, banners and other visual creations commonly used for websites. So, would this be out of the question?

No, but a lot of professional Graphic designers use Computer drawing pads and stylus.

P.S I want to be a graphic designer to, but in automotive and mechanical design.

I’m constantly looking for ads from companies that need website designers and it seems like I know everything I already need to know to design a website (I’ve already made several of them just for fun). I’ve got advance computer skills, a freakishly fast typing speed (although I’m guessing that isn’t very important), it’s easy for me to learn to use new programs, I know a pretty good amount of HTML, I’m really good with computers in general, and I LOVE designing websites.

Problem is I’m not sure if that’s enough… It’s kind of like I’m missing some advance skills. So what kind of skills would an employer expect me to have?

For web design you would need to know CSS AJAX (javascript/xml) HTML and graphic programs. A web designer deals with the UI and client side development.

Now, for a web developer you would need a server side programming language: ASP, PHP, JSP. You would need to know a DBMS, such as MySQL. Javascript.

I’m constantly looking for ads from companies that need website designers and it seems like I know everything I already need to know to design a website (I’ve already made several of them just for fun). I’ve got advance computer skills, a freakishly fast typing speed (although I’m guessing that isn’t very important), it’s easy for me to learn to use new programs, I know a pretty good amount of HTML, I’m really good with computers in general, and I LOVE designing websites.

Problem is I’m not sure if that’s enough… It’s kind of like I’m missing some advance skills. So what kind of skills would an employer expect me to have?

For web design you would need to know CSS AJAX (javascript/xml) HTML and graphic programs. A web designer deals with the UI and client side development.

Now, for a web developer you would need a server side programming language: ASP, PHP, JSP. You would need to know a DBMS, such as MySQL. Javascript.

I have a website on comcast. I would like to design my own page rather than use comcast’s tacky (and rather limited) templates. I need a decent free or low cost web design software package that will allow me to upload it on comcast’s server so that the web address stays the same or close enough.

The following will allow you to pick an editor or coice of how to make your own pages…

Editors:

Free HTML Editors, Web Editors, and WYSIWYG Web Editors and Site Builders:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml#htmleditors
HTML Editor Reviews – http://www.wdvl.com/Reviews/HTML/
Free Online Editor Tool: http://htmledit.squarefree.com/
Free Flash Website Builder (Online): http://www.wix.com/
PageBreeze (Free visual (WYSIWYG) and HTML tag/source modes): http://www.pagebreeze.com/

Serif WebPlus SE: http://myrtc.blogspot.com/2009/08/review-serif-webplus-se.html
Why Validate?: http://validator.w3.org/docs/why.html

Download Trellian WebPage (Free): http://www.trellian.com/webpage/download.htm
WebSketch: http://www.websketch.com/

Create a free website with Jimdo!: http://www.jimdo.com/

The web address should change at all if you have been assigned a sub-domain name. If it is a paid hosting service, then it will not change for sure. You just need to either overwrite any files of the same name, make any new folder names for the files you plan to use and upload the entire set of files is the same relationship as you made them on your computer so as not to break any paths.

Ron

I’m looking for someone who likes to design websites for the fun of it or at least just for practice… I have a website but have no idea how to get it going, so I would like a pro to help me with it.

Any help?

hey here! contact me im private message me on www.emgp.us

im kevin trooper

I’m looking for someone who likes to design websites for the fun of it or at least just for practice… I have a website but have no idea how to get it going, so I would like a pro to help me with it.

Any help?

hey here! contact me im private message me on www.emgp.us

im kevin trooper

I’m doing some market research for website design and just wanted to get an idea of what other people or companies in the industry charge for web design services. Please, no speculation. If you do sites, what do you charge? If you had a site done, what did you pay? Or link to sources that have prices for web design services.

I am sorry, but your question and details are much too vague to give specific details.

For example:

• What area of the world will this be designed for, and in. Pricing is different around the world, not to mention different monetary systems.

• How extensive will the web site be. A handful of pages, several pages, or many (hundreds/thousands). The number of people involved to do large projects makes a difference.

• How involved will the web site be.
º º Graphic work.
º º Scripting.
º º Database accessing.
º º Programming.
º º Interactive.
º º Etc…

• Does the client know what they want. Or will this be more like an Ad Agency, where the client will not know what they will like until they see it designed (meaning it may have to be done several times).

• Will this be a one time shot, or an ongoing contract to maintain the web site after design and implementation.

• Etc…

You will be better off doing a Google search with specific keywords in your search criteria so that you can gather the information you desire.

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