Does this look ok?

C

Chuck

http://www.geocities.com/my1964bug/

I am trying to build a website for my mother-in-law.

I downloaded "html-kit" and used it.

I plan on cleaning up the appearance of the code, but was wondering if the
tags and all looked ok?

As of right now, none of the links work. All I have done so far is just the
main page. Will work on it more in the morning.

Right now it is on Geocities, but the finished product will not be!

Anything that I should do different? Suggestions?

Also, is there a way to check for browser cross-compatibility, other than
just loading it in different browsers myself?

Thanks a million...

Chuck

http://www.geocities.com/my1964bug/
 
R

rf

Chuck said:
http://www.geocities.com/my1964bug/

I am trying to build a website for my mother-in-law.

Er, OK :)
I downloaded "html-kit" and used it.
Hmmm.

I plan on cleaning up the appearance of the code, but was wondering if the
tags and all looked ok?

Not good. You should really learn some CSS to aid with the positioning of
things and get rid of all those <br /> elements and the &nbsp;s.

As of right now, none of the links work. All I have done so far is just the
main page. Will work on it more in the morning.

You're right. All of your image elements point to files on *your* D drive.
They are not on my D drive so I see a mainly blank page.
Also, is there a way to check for browser cross-compatibility, other than
just loading it in different browsers myself?

Nope. Load it into the six browsers you have chosen to download. Any other
browsers will usually be picked up here.
Thanks a million..

Thousands are enough :)

Cheers
Richard.
 
B

brucie

http://www.geocities.com/my1964bug/
I am trying to build a website for my mother-in-law.

i thought it was traditional to hate your mother-in-law and wish her
dead? are you some kind of sicko?
I plan on cleaning up the appearance of the code, but was wondering if the
tags and all looked ok?

no one except you have a directory:

d:/web/kidsrkids/balloon.gif

so no one will see the images except for you.

if the images are in the same directory as the html files then your src
attribute of the <img> element should look like:

<img src="home.png" ...>

and not:

<img src="D:/web/kidsrkids/home.png" ...>


your doctype says you're using HTML but your elements are closed with />
which says your authoring XHTML.

.... and a lot of other things
 
C

Chuck

rf said:
Not good. You should really learn some CSS to aid with the positioning of
things and get rid of all those <br /> elements and the &nbsp;s.

I have tried looking on the net for a page that explains the BASICS of CSS,
but haven't found a good one yet. Any suggestions? This is something that I
would like to learn.
Speaking of <br /> - that is XHTML, not HTML. You should also be using
strict, not transitional.

Outl of the pages that I have written so far have, I have done them all in
notepad. For some reason, I have decided to try an HTML editor. In the past,
I have always used the <br> tag, but this editor used the </br> instead. I
figured it knew what it was doing... Guess not.

You're right. All of your image elements point to files on *your* D drive.
They are not on my D drive so I see a mainly blank page.


Hopefully, I have corrected the image problem. Sorry... it was late!

Thanks again...

Chuck
 
J

jch

Chuck - the page looks pretty good. I wonder though if there's a way to
tighten up the space between the menu items (Home, About Us, etc) and the
subsequent picture and text. If you could pull that part up closer that
would be good. Also, is there a way to put the menu items all on the same
line? Having "E-mail" down by itself is wasting space.
HTH.
 
C

Chuck

jch said:
Chuck - the page looks pretty good. I wonder though if there's a way to
tighten up the space between the menu items (Home, About Us, etc) and the
subsequent picture and text. If you could pull that part up closer that
would be good. Also, is there a way to put the menu items all on the same
line? Having "E-mail" down by itself is wasting space.
HTH.


Thanks for the input.

I will play with that some and see what it looks like.

All of the buttons are in one line on my pc.

What settings are you using? I'm running 1024x768
 
J

jch

Chuck said:
Thanks for the input.

I will play with that some and see what it looks like.

All of the buttons are in one line on my pc.

What settings are you using? I'm running 1024x768

800x600
 
R

Richard Clark

All of the buttons are in one line on my pc.
What settings are you using? I'm running 1024x768

With only one button wrapped, that sounds like 800x600.
With 640x480 even more buttons could wrap.

If you are concerned about appearance, change your resolution to different
settings and see for yourself how it looks. You can put NOBR tags around the
1st and 2nd half of the buttons if you want the wrap to split it evenly into
two rows of button bars of similar appearance for people using less than
1024x768 resolution.

If the quick resolution change feature on your computer only goes down to
800x600, try right-click desktop Properties, (or control panel Display) and see
if that method of changing settings allows setting to 640x480 also.

Rather than changing screen resolution, you can un-maximize your browser and
resize to about a 640/1024 (5/8ths) proportion width, and then all you have to
do is toggle between max and un-max to check out how changes appear.
Thanks a million...

Yeah! Welcome a billion.



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