I've just finished the basic design for a site I'm working on, and I thought I would ask what you all think while it's easy for me to edit it as it's still in image form.

http://stevesmiscellany.8bit.co.uk/

Cheers
S.A.

P.S. The current code will NOT be used in the final site, it was just wipped together to get the site up.

sixpacker wrote:
> i have now dumped my girlfriend

you mean you sprained your wrist?

Allred wrote:
> Coin wrote:
> Wrong, use a centered background in CSS and have the typeface as
> either a high-res image or just use

Steve's
> Miscellany

.
>
> That way, the graphic in the background won't pixelate, and you'll
> still get a high res. type.
>
> The whole site is currently an image, you try stopping a 600px image
> pixelating on a 1280px wide browser...

Ummm...

background: url("imgname.png") top center repeat-no;

Erm, that web site seems to be implying you got together with your girlfriend aged 4.....hmmmm...

sixpacker wrote:
> ive got a new site up and running
> http://danielsamuels.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/

Wow mate, that's really crap.

Hmmm... wrote:

> Don't take this the wrong way - *Good decision*...

No worries, the concept image was an ok site, but getting it to a workable site was never gunna happen.

> I look forward to seeing your new design.

Cheers, I hope it will be considerably better...

sixpacker wrote:
> ive got a new site up and running
> http://danielsamuels.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/

fame beckons.

Allred wrote:
> Ok, I'm scrapping this design, although I've got a working version
> with CSS the backgrounds have to be bland to be a resonable filesize
> and IE can't cope with the CSS. I'll go back to the drawing board
> and come back to you all latter with a new design.

Don't take this the wrong way - *Good decision*...

I look forward to seeing your new design.

Ok, I'm scrapping this design, although I've got a working version with CSS the backgrounds have to be bland to be a resonable filesize and IE can't cope with the CSS. I'll go back to the drawing board and come back to you all latter with a new design.

Malaktix wrote:
> I always whack out a template in photoshop then code the site in
> Dreamweaver.
> When designing it in PS, it's best to approach it with HTML in mind -
> think of how you are going to code it and how you will split the
> image up into sections to use in HTML.
>
> Also remember that you shouldnt rely on images too much, some of us
> are still on 56k! :(
> So when designing it, look for ways of cutting back on images used.
> For example if you wanted a table with a fade from red to blue,
> instead of using a large image for the whole table, just use a
> 1-pixel wide image of the fade.
> This means that if the image is used as a table background, the image
> will still fill the table if you change the width. But, if you change
> the height of the table it will screw up.
> You can also do this with horizontal scaling.
>
> With a bit of tweaking on some of the backgrounds it would be very
> easy to make that site work in most resolutions.
>
> An easy solution to the logo image is just to add a fade to white on
> the left of the image, then set the Bg color to #FFFFFF and align the
> image to the right.

That is spooky, I was just doing that with the logo, and using 1px wide images to do backgrounds...