New Website- Newbie at HTML. Please Advise if you have time

[benjorgensen]

I inherited a website which looked HORRIBLE and I just re-vamped based on what I could learn of HTML. If someone could give me some tips and save much future grief? Maybe layout, colors, fonts comments. I did this all in Netscape but bought webmenus program for the tool bar. Advice much appreciated. My website is www.cesiweb.com

THANKS!:

[kstatefan40]

Looks pretty good. I dont think the menu will work well in any other browsers but IE and NS, but this is off the top of my head, i am using IE at school right now. Looks great.

[Metaphorically]

Looks okay, loads quick, and it's not overdone. The effect for the heading you have on the "In Situ" page looks nice, but it's different from all the other pages I looked at. Try using that on the others. And about the images, there are some harsh scaling artifacts on the one on the top left corner (reused on the front page and a few others). If you can get ahold of the original full-scale image, scale it down in an app that does anti-aliasing. I just tried ImageMagick for mine and it is incredible (and free).

[mikezel]

Originally posted by kstatefan40 Looks pretty good. I dont think the menu will work well in any other browsers but IE and NS, but this is off the top of my head, i am using IE at school right now. Looks great.

works fine in firefox for me, so i would assume it does in opera too.

nice site!

mike

[Metaphorically]

Opera is built on totally separate source from firefox, netscape and ie. If the menus work in a couple of them then they're probably pretty close to the w3c standards, but it's always worth trying.

[mikezel]

Okay, thanks for the info. I just tried it on Opera and the menus are fine.

mike

[benjorgensen]

I thank everyone for the suggestions. Next week I will implement. I don't know how to make a menu myself which is why I used the canned program. I just tried it in all the browsers I could, including Netscape, IE, mozilla (I think same as netscape), opera, and aol. It seems to work. I lookforward to learning about javascript as I learn more about this stuff. Thanks so much.

[kram 2.0]

I have several suggestions:

First, it's good that you have the site so the 800x600 viewer can see the site. However, I might recommend putting some type of pattern / picture there. You site is very plain and there's advantages to that but I might look for some theming.

Second, I see you're using CSS. It seems like you're in a bit of grief rewriting the CSS over and over again. I might just suggest using external CSS - so every time you change you style, you just write a simple code for it.

Also your tool bar - see if you can get rid of the boxes surrounding the subjects - ie. like no box around "HOME" or "About CES", etc. This, you will probably need the program to do.

Besides that, looks like a good start. Good luck

Hope that helps,
kram

[sigmaseven]

sry man, but the image in the upper left corner sort of ruins the site a little. The rest looks very good. You can very easiliy use a graphics program to make it more streamlined and less choppy.