Coding HTML: Simple banner. - Page 2

User 38401 Photo


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I would highly suggest 2 things also.

1. Save that image as a .jpg as it's a huge file and just loading the image itself took forever on my high speed connection.

2. Run that image through an image optimizer to make it even smaller http://pnggauntlet.com/ free program and works pretty slick. Just optimize it to the point that it looks the same yet makes that image a smaller size AFTER you have saved it as a .jpg

Good luck with it :)
User 2924428 Photo


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Yes you should start a stylesheet if your going to be working with multiple images like Eric suggested, I'm still learning CSS but you'll want to start at this school www.w3schools.com It's a great resource for newbie css.
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Ona, I have tried, and also asked someone else to have a look, but the site name on that banner is simply not legible. I suggest you use a different font. Embedded in an image you can use whichever fancy font you like, but I guess the important thing with a website is to get some message out, isn't it? ;)

Something else: The markup that you pasted in your first post is lacking the character set declaration. Since you are using html 4.01 the document should start like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
...


If you want to use html5, it's much simpler and goes like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
Ha en riktig god dag!
Inger, Norway

My work in progress:
Components for Site Designer and the HTML Editor: https://mock-up.coffeecup.com


User 2924428 Photo


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I suggest you purchase the CoffeeCup HTML Editor, all the starting settings are laid out for you so you can just jump into the editing, easy interface but complex design tools :)
User 122279 Photo


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Very good idea indeed, Matt ;)
Ha en riktig god dag!
Inger, Norway

My work in progress:
Components for Site Designer and the HTML Editor: https://mock-up.coffeecup.com


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Nice Job Matt.:)
I can't hear what I'm looking at.
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.

This is a site I built for my work.(RSD)
http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com

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