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"Website - Retrospective"

Okay I've been working on a site for about 2 hours I suppose and I've just uploaded the basic layout of the site. There are however a few problems.

Here is the url (problem #1 although not serious to fix):

http://www.geocities.com/mjswerve/retrospective/retro.html

Obviously its on Geoshities and that needs to be changed. Although my Staghosting site got removed because I didnt bother to put a site up... or build one until now for that matter. Anyway, can anyone give me a list of nice free hosting plans, just a reasonable amount of space and preferably no banners. Dont really need support for PHP and MySQL etc. as I'm not into that side of webdesign.

Problem #2. That huge white thing at the bottom. Now this doesnt appear when its offline so im having the feeling its something to do with Geocities. If its not and you know how to fix it could you please give me information on how to remove it :)

Problem #3 it only looks correct at 1024*768. Is there any simple ways that I can make it look ok at other res's without horizontal scrolling etc.?

Problem #4 the main space i have for text. At the moment its like an image, how would I go about making this a frame with a scroll bar in it? Is it called an iframe or something? Perhaps someone could show me the code id need to use in the page to allow me to do this? If not im just going to whack a layer over the top to let me add text which im guessing is pretty unorphadox.

Thats pretty much it, if you can give me help with any of these problems i'll be very grateful :)

Just a final note, I realise I'm pathetic at making webpages. Im more into graphics etc. and I just wanted to make a little home page which I could display my art work on and have a little info about myself.

Thanks in advance.

MJswerve wrote:
> Ah you see this is down to the way that i've made the site. I made the
> layout in Adobe Photoshop and then sliced the image and it put it into
> HTML form. I dunno what the code would be like to remove the
> background images but have the buttons, header etc. still in place :\

You can't do that unless you want to make sure that everyone views that site on 1024x768.

Look at the site on 800x600 or above 1024x768.

It doesn't work and the fact is, 800x600 is still the most popular resolution.

Create the layout using a table and use CSS to customise the borders. OK, it won't look as good but the site will work on all resolutions unlike now where you're limited to one.

Just thought I'd bump this to show anyone that may even slighty care how the sites coming along :o

http://www.geocities.com/mjswerve/retrospective/retro.html

Naff attempt at a news page :D

phi11ip wrote:
> Set the background as that grey colour, don't use images...
>
> That image is setting the size of the table. If they view it on a
> lower resolution, the image won't shrink. The page will just scroll
> sideways...
>
> Lose the images and define the table sizes, then it will work fine.

Ah you see this is down to the way that i've made the site. I made the layout in Adobe Photoshop and then sliced the image and it put it into HTML form. I dunno what the code would be like to remove the background images but have the buttons, header etc. still in place :\

If you define the table sizes as phi11ip said, you can centre the whole table, allowing it to look good in most screen resolutions.

For the main text, I'd say use a