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I have been slowly migrating my sites from Front Page to EW. One of the first ones I tried was a PHP Login Tutorial. I used a template from Open Source Web Design and modified it to suit my needs. EW lacks any PHP support so this made the job a bit harder to accomplish. Your EW tutorials were of great help in understanding positioning, especially when I was doing "absolute positioning" on my Bookbinding Site. Designing is not one of my strong points so your comments on how these turned out would be appreciated.
http://www.scottyswebs.com/
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Hi gskywalkers, welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing. Sorry for the delay, I was out of town for 8+ days and have been busily catching up.
As for your sites, I think they're both starting off pretty good, they're clean and legible. I would advise you though to put a max width on your fluid layout because you can end up with very long line lengths on some people's monitors otherwise. (You could also put a minimum width as well.) If you need help in how to do that, just let me know. Ideally you want you text to be about 65-80 characters, including spaces, any longer can get distracting to read online.
The footer on your ebooks site also keeps coming under your images. It looks like it would be a float/clearing issue, but I see you have the footer set to clear both. I'll try to come back to look through the code better on that later this afternoon.
But like I said, overall these are clean. I would like to see a color on the PHP site, just to give the eye something to be lead to. Perhaps give the links a color and maybe the code could be treated different and highlighted as well. Just more visual variety. On the ebook site I'd also try to get the navigation to line up to the top of your copy. Right now the middle copy sits higher that the left and right columns. If they all shared the same top that would make it look a bit cleaner.
Thanks again for sharing, and if you have any other questions, let me know. Oh and thanks for the banner too, much appreciated.
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My wife has given birth to our twins, so I'm still going to be spotty around here. It never seems to correct itself does it? I'm sorry, I'm trying.
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Dustin (8/16/2007)
The footer on your ebooks site also keeps coming under your images. It looks like it would be a float/clearing issue, but I see you have the footer set to clear both. I'll try to come back to look through the code better on that later this afternoonHi Dustin, I have messed with the footer problem on the Ebooks site and the only way I have found to solve it is to add a div tag just above the footer. <div style="height: 175px;"></div> The absolute positioning of all of the images on the lower left are what is causing this. Adding the div tag works ok for me on IE and Mozilla with the existing 175px height tag but I have increased it to 200px to see if it looks different to you. As for the text width on the PHP site, anything you can tell me about how to limit the width of the content text would be appreciated.
http://www.scottyswebs.com/
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I'm away from my main computer right now, but I'll try to get a more informative post up for you soon. Ideally you would be able to set a min-width and a max-width in your css file, but IE 6 does not respond well to that code, and so you need a work around. I haven't actually tested IE7 yet to see if that was fixed, I believe it was supposed to be.
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My wife has given birth to our twins, so I'm still going to be spotty around here. It never seems to correct itself does it? I'm sorry, I'm trying.
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