www.dirola.com . I just made a new logo for it and now it looks all squished. I'm not sure as too why. Can someone tell me why and how to fix it?
Well, being you declare it as 300x300 in the HTML, but it's a 300x100 image COULD be part of the problem... Though it looks like you are overriding that in the CSS so god only knows what size it's going to appear. Though with the lack of doctype, comments before the HTML tag, inlined presentation, improper use of header tags, spacer breaks, inconsistant use of quotes, lack of quotes in areas that even in html 3.2 should have quotes, willy nilly nonsensical indenting style, a horde of pointless javascript, and lord knows how many actual validation errors (given that the validator can't even parse it correctly) I'd say you've got bigger problems than one image getting squashed.
Well I just had the site designed and paid for it personally I don't do any of the coding or anything but I can see that there is a lot of problems. Could I get somone to help me with it.
You paid... for THAT? My condolances... My advice - if you paid money for that after 2004, sue for damages.
It's a "Lemon Market" out there-- people who buy websites don't know what to look for, so it's easy for crap to get big sales and make companies look respectable. Since those who build better websites with better code (which nobody but other webdesigners look at) can't get any better money when the site visually looks the same as the craptastic ones, they don't increase in number or revinue (sp), letting the craptastics increase in size... It's too bad someone doesn't make some list out there that shows normal people what they need to look for before buying a website/template. Most businesses who need a website aren't web people. They sell other stuff-- mortgages, cars, insurance, paintings, Chinese-made plastics... why should they become web design experts just to see if they are getting a good site for their money? It makes no sense. Maybe I'll stick something on stommepoes... or maybe Dan can have a page on Minimum Markup to address this?