Help with HTML

[kaz]

Hi guys,

I need help. Im am designing a website called webtips, and I am using Dreamweaver; I'm currently working on the index page. The problem is everything looks fine on Dreamweaver, but when ¦I look on the browser, evrything is scattered all over the place. The link(and this is temporary)is http://www.geocities.com/kkisie2000/index.htm. Aslo, here is the html

thanx kaz

[moojoo]

Woo WYSIWYG code is gnarly. Ditch it, start from square one and see if you can't find the problem. DW uses Opera 6 I think for its preview btw. Maybe an earlier one depending.

[minute44]

moojoo: One man on a never ending quest to rid the universe of the tyrany of WYSIWYG editors. They were once good friends but now moojoo is the sworn enemy of the WYSIWYG's leader, the evil FrontPage!

LoL

He's right though. The root of all your problems is the "code" that Dreamweaver's design view generates (or should I say vomits). Learn the basics of hand coded HTML and see how much simpler layout becomes.

[kaz]

eeeeew! That's gross! But you're right though. I'm seriously considering doing my website by hand. Seems no matter how hard I try getting to my bottom of my problem in Dreamweaver, it's the whacky design that I end up with. By the way, how many hours a day should I practice hand-coding?

[minute44]

24 hours a day until you get it right!!!!!!! (Cracks the whip!)

naah, just do it a bit here and there...it'll all come together soon enough.

[moojoo]

The w3c validator is ahandy tool for this. I would just go balls out, code the document then test it, fix the errors, learn from the errors etc. The validator will tell you the error, the line # it is on + why the error occured so you can learn that way what can and can't be used and in what ways.

[PixelLuv]

taking apart sites that look the way you like and the many css templates are a good study tool also.