Website face lift and new wallpaper - Lateral-g Forums

asaenz · #1 03-15-2008, 07:49 PM

Hi Guys,

Just wanted to announce my new CSS website.
I put many hours in to it. Any major problems w/ text or appearance let me know.

I added some more desktop wallpaper. The orange camaro is a little out of place but I chose not to spend any more time on it. The Chevy II came out very nice.

http://www.autoartshop.net/car-wallpaper-1024.html
www.autoartshop.com

Thank you for your time.
Hopefully I will be drawing again very soon.

Al

city_ofthe_south · #2 03-17-2008, 08:20 AM

Site looks great. Mine is in desperate need of a face lift as well. Can't wait to see some new art from you.

mlomaka · #3 03-18-2008, 05:23 AM

Looks great. Nice additions. Your a couple steps ahead of me as I don't even have a website yet.

Thanks for the update.

Nate_ERC · #4 03-18-2008, 09:02 AM

Lookin' good. I love CSS, are you programming it by hand? The only problem I noticed is that the copyright spills into the content a little. You may want to bump it down about 5 px.

Our website was autogenerated by some wsywig editors, and it is a mix of CSS, PHP, HTML, Flash, and JAVA. It is a TOTAL NIGHTMARE to maintain and update.

The other website I'm building is all hand coded. I am trying to only use CSS and HTML. It's sooo much easier to work with, and I don't have to worry about as many browser support issues. http://eckertsrodandcustom.com/turbo...orque_Website/

I will be able to publish it soon, if all the legwork of integrating the shopping cart doesn't kill me.

asaenz · #5 03-18-2008, 01:04 PM

Thank you very much Mlomaka and Colter.
Colter I like your site, I love the tachs and stuff. You might just want to make it wider, but other than that it's tight.

Wow Nate, cool so you are into websites. Man, I hate em

I lost hair trying to do my site in CSS w/o tables. Yes, I did it by hand, just notepad. I know my CSS can be more efficient but I had to stop some time with it.

Anyway, man I tried to fix that darn Copyright at the bottom. I'm going to have to ask the peops. at SitePoint (CSS gurus) for some help. You wouldn't happen to know which property and value to use? I bet you are using FireFox? It looks OK in IE. I only tested the site for FireFox and IE.

Here is my code just in case.

Code:

<div id="footer">
<p id="pfooter">©2007 AutoArtShop. All Rights Reserved.</p>
<p id="pfooter2"><a href="terms.html" target="_blank">Terms & Use Policy</a></p>
</div>

CSS

Code:

#pfooter2 { margin-bottom: 0;
}

#pfooter { 
		padding-top: 0;
		margin-top: 10px;
		margin-bottom: 0;		
}

#footer {
	clear: both;
	height: 66px;
	background: url(images/img05.gif) repeat-x;
	text-align: center;
	font-size: .7em;
	color: #231F20;
}

#footer a {
	border: none;
	color: #231F20;
}

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nate_ERC

Lookin' good. I love CSS, are you programming it by hand? The only problem I noticed is that the copyright spills into the content a little. You may want to bump it down about 5 px.

Our website was autogenerated by some wsywig editors, and it is a mix of CSS, PHP, HTML, Flash, and JAVA. It is a TOTAL NIGHTMARE to maintain and update.

The other website I'm building is all hand coded. I am trying to only use CSS and HTML. It's sooo much easier to work with, and I don't have to worry about as many browser support issues. http://eckertsrodandcustom.com/turbo...orque_Website/

I will be able to publish it soon, if all the legwork of integrating the shopping cart doesn't kill me.

Nate the site you are doing is very nice
http://eckertsrodandcustom.com/turbo...orque_Website/
Your drop downs are spot on. They are CSS based? I didn't check. Anyway I tried to get some CSS based drop downs to work but I just had to stop. Plus my site isn't deep enough for drops.

Nate_ERC · #6 03-19-2008, 08:19 AM

I would try this addition to your CSS.

Code:

#pfooter2 { margin-bottom: 0;
}

#pfooter { 
		padding-top: 0;
		margin-top: 10px;
		margin-bottom: 0;		
}

#footer {
	clear: both;
	height: 66px;
	background: url(images/img05.gif) repeat-x;
	text-align: center;
	font-size: .7em;
	color: #231F20;
        padding-top: 5px;
}

#footer a {
	border: none;
	color: #231F20;
}

That should work, but if it doesn't let me know. It shouldn't be hard at all to fix. Designing for cross-browser compatibility sucks, but that's just the way it is. On our website the traffic is nearly half IE and half Firefox.

The drop down menu on my site is all CSS. It makes it super easy to add and change tabs. If you would like help implementing something I'm sure I could at least get you pointed in the right direction.

This may not be an option for you, but I highly recommend using dreamweaver to do your editing. It really makes the process much quicker and easier. You could probably find an older version pretty cheap, or just do some searching for a bittorrent file.