I'm a new VSD user and I need some help tweaking my website so that it will appear the way I want it to after upload. I have read some of the posts regarding the problems I'm having and they don't appear to positively address the issues I'm having. In other words, it seems like they are saying "you have to live with choice A or choice B", neither of which is what I want. I want the pages of my website to (at least) all be located at the top center of the screen. I would prefer that they be located in the vertical and horizontal center of the screen, but realize that this may be more difficult. I originally had the "centered" box checked in the "Page Properties" dialogue box, but this was causing other problems, so I unchecked it. This (of course) shifted the graphics to the left on every page. I also suspect that some of my difficulties may be due to the way I've built the website in VSD, so I'm curious as to other people's methods of construction regarding use of backgrounds, photos, shapes, etc. and how that effects the final product. BTW, here's my site: www.aeadllc.com.
Thanks!
Ray

Hi,

You are very vague as to what you want to achieve. In order to help, we would need something more specific. What were the problems you encountered when centering your site on the page?

If you are familiar with style sheets, it is possible to add one to your site. With it you could center the contents, add a margin at the top to get the contents a bit further down, set background properties, etc.

From what I saw when entering your site most of the pages looked ok, even though it is common (but not mandatory) to have the same background color or image throughout. The only pages that looked a bit messy were the two under P?rojects. I think I would have gone for a colour background, not an image background, on those.

We'll try to help, but as I said, please be a bit more specific.

Ray - as Inger says, a little more info is needed. It would help if you would center your pages and re-upload the site so we could see what's going on.

As to site building; some general advice....
Keep things consistent - menus in the same location on every page and a logo or title on every page (not everyone gets to a site by way of the home page, upper left corner or top of page is standard/expected location). The same background/color on each page lends a consistent look and feel as well.
Use actual text (standard fonts for body copy) rather than images of text. Search engines won't find your site and anyone browsing with images turned off will find nothing to read.
Descriptions next to your project illustrations would be good

I like the look of the home page with the textured background and antique illustration. Maybe you could try it with a smaller version of the picture and put your business philosophy on the home page? Make it clear who/what/where you are - right from the start.