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"I need suggestins for site design, please"

http://www.timothygriffin.co.uk

It's purely a personal site with stuff on that I like. What I would like from you people is simply some suggestions about the layout, e.g. where to put the title or section links etc. I am completely devoid of any talent when it comes to design ...

The initial index, the Calvin & Hobbes page and the Computers/Wallpapers pages are the design I'm currently going with - is this any good or can you suggest improvements? Nothing fancy, i.e. no Javascript menus or rollovers, just simply HTML and/or CSS.

ANY suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers.

Lol, hilarious.

For sale?!? I love him more than anything else, so: no, he isn't for sale!

Oh and is your dog for sale?

Woa cool site.

Good man Tim, Good man

Try again - sometimes you can't access the site, but I get my hosting for free so complaining is out of the question.

Timmy I can't access your site, it just says "Page cannot be displayed"

Icarus wrote:
> Timmargh, I see you've done the autosize thing. But why the need for 2
> stylesheets?

To make the bullets in the link list change to black, therefore showing which section you were in, I had one style sheet saying ...

#sections .current { color:black }

... and then each section/folder had it's own text file of links within which it's own links were 'class="current"'. It got annoying every time I added a new page because I had to amend each section's text file.

By having two style sheets I can have just the one text file of links with each section's links having it's own class (i.e. 'class="main"', then 'class="books"' etc.) and then put a different style sheet in each section/folder which specifies the black bullets for that section. For example, the style sheet in the 'Games' folder reads ...

#sections .games { color:black }

... so the list items with 'class="games"' are black but the rest (i.e. 'class="main"', then 'class="books"' etc.) aren't specified so they inherit 'color:silver' from the main style sheet.

Confused? I worked out how to do it while I was on the loo ...

Timmargh wrote:
> Yeah, you can drag and drop into either Windows Explorer or IE. There
> are plenty of simple FTP clients around, too, like CuteFTP.
>
> Personally, I either use DreamWeaver when I've updated one or two
> files or CaptainFTP for a batch.
>
> Icarus is right: FrontPage does insert a lot of unnecessary crap into
> your pages.

Yeah i did have CuteFTP, but i think it's been deleted, i'll have a look for it later...

Timmargh, I see you've done the autosize thing. But why the need for 2 stylesheets?

Yeah, you can drag and drop into either Windows Explorer or IE. There are plenty of simple FTP clients around, too, like CuteFTP.

Personally, I either use DreamWeaver when I've updated one or two files or CaptainFTP for a batch.

Icarus is right: FrontPage does insert a lot of unnecessary crap into your pages.