Need Advice on my site

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by cscott5288, Mar 31, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hello, :D

    Just recently finished designing a site using microsoft publisher 2007 (bad idea)

    www.news-string.com
    what do you think of it? suggestions/comments..etc..

    i bought the domain and server space on godaddy. was choosing a linux server a good idea? should i have gone with microsoft what are the ups and downs?

    also i kind of have a problem

    It is extremely hard to edit my html because of microsoft publisher basically scrambles the source code in it's own little way when i export it as html and upload to the server.
    Because of this i have decided to make it again using a html editor that more directly deals with the source code (it just has a couple neat things like shortcuts, auto fill-ins, error cheker) basically it's not a visual based editor, but allows you to edit just the code. It's called HTML-Kit.

    As far as using html code im familiar with the basics but no expert :( I inserted the java (basically all the content in my page) just fine, but im having some difficulty alliging text the way i want it. I want the new page that i am desiging straight from html code (not with publisher) to look exactly like the one i made from publisher. One problem i have in particulay is getting the "Search all News" properly alligned with the google search. and gosh theres so many alignments i have to work on..theres got to be more codes the ALIGN=RIGHT ALIGHT=LEFT etc..i mean what if i want it to appear within a certain perameter of lets say 3 screen pixels? how can i do that?
     
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    mr_wonderful Peon

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    /* CSS */
    p {padding:3px;}
    div {padding:3px;}

    padding-left:3px;

    padding-right:3px;

    etc..
     
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  3. cscott5288

    cscott5288 Active Member

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    i dont get it...lol
    tried reading tutorials on padding
    here is the script for my google search engine:

    where and how do i insert the padding? youll have to go directly to my website and look at the script where it says google cse begins because it says i cant post live links because i haven't been a member for more then 7 days lol. thanks for the help
     
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    cscott5288 Active Member

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    wow it just clicked in my brain after reading a tutorial again!
    nvm walking me through it
     
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    cscott5288 Active Member

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    ok, nvm it's not working again lol

    let's say i want to insert the text "search all news" on the right side of my image (news-string.com). and i want it to appear ALIGN=ABSMIDDLE and a break after each word like: (lets say the XXs are the image, __are spaces)

    XXXX Search
    XXXX__All
    XXXX News



    heres what i tried:

    <IMG SRC="the link to image blah blah blah" ALIGN=ABSMIDDLE>
    <style>
    /* CSS */

    p { padding-left: 3px;}
    div {padding-right:3px;}

    <p>Search All News</p>

    </style>

    and it doesn't work...suggestions?
     
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    readezarchive Active Member

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    Hey it doesn't look bad at all! on IE, the width of the frame is a little off but all in all it looks great.
     
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    cscott5288 Active Member

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    i know it looks fine now but i designed it with microsoft publisher, and starting from scratch using a diffrent editor that is not visual based. the reason i don't want to use the code generated from the visual based editor is because it's all scrambled and extremely hard to edit.

    hehe read my first post ;)
     
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    cscott5288 Active Member

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    comeback mr wonderful..i need further explanation on padding lol
     
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