whose NICE?

[connie]

could someone help me out with basically web design stuff? cuz connie here kinda sucks at it. /=

[bigguy]

I`m sure theres someone around here that can help you .....there are alot of grfx wiz`s around here

[|Born2Shoot|]

:happy: LO GFX wizard :happy: :original: well i don't know if im a gfx wizard but i can make good graphics i think of myself

[TranceOperator]

Well....basically this is how I do it:

1. Get Photoshop 7 or 8
2. Design a layout
3. Cut it up for the areas I want to have content in (text, iframes, ect.)
4. Save it as a web document (Photoshop writes a .HTML page and puts all of your design with it)
5. Code the layout to have live content.
6. Upload to my site :happy:

Now that's a very very basic tutorial. If you don't know how to do anything that I mentioned, it would be tough.

Here

1. Get Photoshop 7 or 8 - www.Adobe.com you can usually get a free 30 trial
2. Design a layout - Try searching www.Google.com for tutorials on web design, effects, ect. As you learn new ways to make things look, you'll develoup your own unique style.
3. Cut it up for the areas I want to have content in (text, iframes, ect.) - By cut I mean using the "Slice" tool. You choose areas for each part of the layout to be "cut". i.e. Photoshop saves it as its own images, and puts them all together in the actual layout. This is so you can put text, or anything else, over an image. A turorial on cutting and coding layouts with Photoshop by -SE7EN- is here (video)
4. Save it as a web document (Photoshop writes a .HTML page and puts all of your design with it)
5. Code the layout to have live content. - Open the document Photoshop just exported, usually named what your design was. I use 1stPage2000 (www.evrsoft.com) it's totally free, and very easy. Anyway, to put text over any image in your layout, view the layout as it is, and then choose where you want the text to go. Right click and select "save target as". This tells you the image name. Copy the image name then click cancel. Find that image in 1stPage2000 (in the HTML coding) and above that image you will see a <td>.
It's usually like <td width="535" height="444">

what you want to do is make the image below it the td background, so that you can put writing over it.

so instead of:

<TD COLSPAN=11>
<IMG SRC="http://elitenick.com/v3test/images/elitenickdotcomv3_24.gif" WIDTH=470 HEIGHT=42 ALT=""></TD>

It needs to be:

<TD COLSPAN=11 background=="http://elitenick.com/v3test/images/elitenickdotcomv3_24.gif" WIDTH=470 HEIGHT=42><center>TEXT!!! Woot woot
</TD>

6. Upload to my site :happy: - Use an FTP uploader. Faster than using an HTML uploader. www.cuteftp.com


Alright I know this is too difficult to understand for newbies probably...but hey.

:ermm:

[|Born2Shoot|]

could someone help me out with basically web design stuff? cuz connie here kinda sucks at it. /=

Do you know html php or any language first off? (Graphics later)

Well get a code language first, then learn how to use a Graphics programm like adobe photoshop then find soem tutorials and try to learn as much as possible,, then go get dreamweaver learn how to slice up your template and learn how to code it so it can be edited :happy:

[Kyle]

do u want to learn how to use Photoshop, or an HTML/PHP editor?

[connie]

do u want to learn how to use Photoshop, or an HTML/PHP editor?

yesh.

gfx? whats that?

thanx for the advice guys [= sry i was a little slow in repsonding .

know basic html. none java/flash erm whats iframe? i think thatsa pretty cool.

how long to make a layout? if its your first time?

[|Born2Shoot|]

well , i would suggest before uploading and launching your site , to get most of the bugs and defaults out of your site :original: then upload it.

When i just started i began to make a layout, that costed me a week, iwanted everything perfect, so then i coded it in one day thats about it, now i do it a lot more faster, but i wish i had the patience i had in the beginning, :online2lo :grin:

[connie]

haha
welll
no schoool
maybe ill get around to attempt to make one.
thanks

[BigEmmaFanz]

well , i would suggest before uploading and launching your site , to get most of the bugs and defaults out of your site then upload it.

When i just started i began to make a layout, that costed me a week, iwanted everything perfect, so then i coded it in one day thats about it, now i do it a lot more faster, but i wish i had the patience i had in the beginning,.

XD.. I was the same and I'm still the same... I get lazier to spend time on a layout as time goes by.. >,<