nOOb advice

SynchPedro86 · #1 Jul 27th, 2006, 03:46

I am trying to build the first page of my Dino Crisis site by practising on a HTML fuzzy pad with random tags and images. I cannot paste my HTML coding on these forums because there are too many image links and I cannot be arsed editing them all. Basically, the layout looks really lame and the news content appears below the layout instead of in the middle of the page, or sometimes it will not show up at all. I think it has something to do with my tables. It just looks really messed up, to put it mildly.

Legacy_Staff · #2 Jul 27th, 2006, 07:31

can u provide a link to the page?

SynchPedro86 · #3 Jul 27th, 2006, 12:09

You see, that's the thing. I don't have a site yet. I've never made a site before. I don't even know how to design signaturtes (I always have to leave a request). All I have is a notepad document with my HTML content. I tried to post the layout, but there seemed to be a lot of image tags because I copied it from another site. I'm not sure what they were because there didn't appear to be any images. Because of the image limit, my post could not be submitted.

craig · #4 Jul 27th, 2006, 12:27

Try learning slowly first before you delve into making a full on website.
You need to be able to view what your coding so save your code as a .html file and look at it in a Firefox and I.E.
What I think you would be best off doing is learning the basics, all of the different tags for html. Once you've got a bit of HTML knowledge look into CSS and start to understand how that works.
You need to work from the ground up and not just copy some code from a site, which you wont be able to understand.
If you dont want to go through the learning process... (I advise you do).. then you could always hire a designer to create a site which is easy for you to update and maintain

Craig

moojoo · #5 Jul 27th, 2006, 12:52

This should give you a good starting point. A very basic XHTML Strict document to start with.

Code: Select all

 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
        <title>Foo!</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/foo.css" media="screen" type="text/css" />
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/fooprint.css" media="print" type="text/css" />
        <meta name="Keywords" content="Foo, Foo, Foo, Foo" />
        <meta name="Author" content="Mr. Foo" />
        <meta name="Copyright" content="Foo, Inc." />
        <meta name="Description" content="This is all about Foo." />
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Foo heading</h1>
        <p>Foo Foo Foo Foo <a href="" title="">Foo Link</a>.</p>
        <img src="" alt="" width="" height="" />
    </body>
</html>

Quick Cheat Sheet to get you started:

HTML Documents have a basic structure:

Doc Type

Head

Content

Link to an external CSS style sheet:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/foo.css" media="screen" type="text/css" />

Link tag: <a href="Link URL" title="Link Title">Link Text</a>

Image tag: <img src="Image Source" alt="Image Description" width="Image Width" height="Image Height" />

Paragraph:
<p>Paragraph Text</p>

Heading Tags:
<h1></h1>
<h2></h2>
<h3></h3>
<h4></h4>
<h5></h5>

Unordered List:
<ul>
<li>Text</li>
</ul>

Ordered List:
<ol>
<li>Text</li>
</ol>

Definition List:
<dl>
<dt>Title</dt>
<dd>Blah Blah</dd>
</dl>

Form stuff:

<fieldset>
<legend></legend>
</fieldset>

<form name="" action="" method="post/get"></form>

<input name="" type="text" size="" value="" />

<textarea rows="" cols="" name="" value=""></textarea>

<input type="button" name="" value="" />

<input type="submit" name="" value="" />

Legacy_Staff · #6 Jul 27th, 2006, 13:39

It's gonna be hard for us to help ya with anything specific if we can't see whut you've done / are trying to do.

bruno89 · #7 Jul 29th, 2006, 10:20

try www.htmlgoodie.com its got the basics on it you can progress from there

thats how i lernt lol its alot of reading but it waists a bit of time .lol. i use notepad aswell i allways have done i havn't got the money for these big flash programs the rest of these "coff" wonderfull people use

Legacy_Staff · #8 Jul 29th, 2006, 12:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by bruno89

the rest of these "coff" wonderfull people

It's true, I'm not wonderful.
I am cutest though.

minute44 · #9 Jul 29th, 2006, 13:06

You want us to help you with a problem but you don't know what the problem is and you have no way of showing us... Sorry man, We're good but we're not that good!

bruno89 · #10 Jul 30th, 2006, 05:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by RedSkwirrell

It's true, I'm not wonderful.
I am cutest though.

lol ok u think that

but u wunt win over me

im just a god

Legacy_Staff · #11 Jul 30th, 2006, 07:56

I have a certificate.

bruno89 · #12 Jul 30th, 2006, 12:14

lol *coff* big ed

haha only jokin

SynchPedro86 · #13 Jul 31st, 2006, 00:32

Thanks for the advice!

moojoo · #14 Jul 31st, 2006, 13:18

Man, my post should get anyone started.. grargh! Listen to the Moojoo..... hehe sorry. rough morning.

minute44 · #15 Jul 31st, 2006, 14:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by moojoo

Man, my post should get anyone started.. grargh! Listen to the Moojoo..... hehe sorry. rough morning.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

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