So how do i go about doing it in dreamweaver / MX 2004?
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How to Jazz up my site?
im working on a website at the moment and my design is very plain and boring.
http://web.1asphost.com/ir
im using ASP and i have a template page but as you can see its very plain looking, how do i make it look better?
ive been looking at some websites and how they look design-wise. i cant figure out how to have the "rounded" table effect you see on this site and on these sites;
http://www.tripod.lycos.co
http://www.macromedia.com/
How is it done? in dreamweaver? fireworks or other software?
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The outline of the content area (the 'rounded table') is comprised of these three background images:
www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/img
www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/img
www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/img
The content and the internal layout is placed overtop of this background - primarily the middle/globalcontent_back.
www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/img
How do you do it in Dreamweaver? First you get an understanding of how the page is constructed using HTML and CSS. Once you understand that, you can use Dreamweaver (or another tool) to create something similar. The biggest hurdle is to learn what you want to do. After that, figuring out how to do it is much easier. To better understand how this page is constructed, you can copy the source code into Dreamweaver to see how it is all put together. Remember that you need the external style sheets (css) as well if you to get the whole picture. This is a handy way to see how things are done, but remember that should be used for information purposes only, ie. you shouldn't use someone else's source code.
I saw site today. Looks better but
I must tell you that the correct use of .css is using stylesheets separatedly, not inside html.
You have this:
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-color: #000000;
background-image: url();
}
a:link {
color: #0099FF;
}
a:visited {
color: #990000;
}
.style4 {font-size: 10px}
.style7 {font-size: 10px; color: #FF0000; }
.style8 {
color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 9px;
font-weight: bold;
}
.style9 {color: #666666}
.style10 {font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
.style11 {font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
.style12 {font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
-->
</style>
and you haven t used the power of DW in making your own stylesheet. On the right side of DW screen you have a tab for css. You click on add css, give it a name and attach it to the html. You can open notepad and copy the code as I did and save it as "name you choose.css" This css will work for all the html if you attach it to them.
When it is atached look between <head> </head> some place must appear text like this:
<link href="name you choose.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
the problem with the site at the minute is ive made a background image in fireworks and put a layer over it in dreamweaver, which is so awkward as when i move the menu a bit it all moves out of place.
i have used stylesheets, just not every feature of them as i dont know much about them. i still cant fugure out how to make a "table" have the rounded border effect. it seems its some kind of layer with a small corner picture but i cant figure out how to do it.
As explained above, it's not a small corner picture, it's a combination of three larger pictures that collectively form the background and simulates a table-like container.
The best way to do this is to use a css-based layout as was done in the example site. However, without understanding basic HTML and CSS, you will have difficulty getting Dreamweaver to create this for you. Dreamweaver is just a design tool, not a designer.
Do you have the tabla round-border done?
If you do, try this
1)Use slices in Adobe photoshop
2) Make them appear as you like to be seen on your html
save them with save for the web. They´ll be saved in a folder (it must be in the site folder)
3) Now use them as insert image in each part of the table.
4) Notice that this is not a final solution case they´ll be images and no text will be allowed over them.
5) This only will work meanwhile you study a little html and css.
6) I must tell that layers are not valid html. If you intend to validate you html with w3c.validator it won´t work.
7) As I gave you the css complete don´t know what else to say. Hope this helps for a while.
Alina
I think you're better off with CSS, but if you want to do rounded corners in a table-based design, here are a couple of tutorials from another thread that give step-by-step directions how:
www.dreamweaversites.com/t
www.freewebmasterhelp.com/
(suggestions courtesy of funhyun1 in www.experts-exchange.com//
If you have Dreamweaver MX 2004 just launch the program and from the CREATE FROM SAMPLES choose PAGE DESIGNS (CSS) and pick HALO LEFT NAV or anyone you want to explore in how a rounded corners are made using tables and CSS. This is pretty much how the MAcromedia's website is made in a nutshell. I learned so much dissecting these provided templates from Dreamweaver. Hope this helps.
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by: humeniukPosted on 2005-04-22 at 11:34:25ID: 13845392
You can see exactly how it's done by looking at the source code. In IE, click 'View' -> 'Source'. In Firefox, click 'View' -> 'Page Source'.
Typically, the rounded effect that you see is a background image used to simulate a rounded table or container. In the case of the lycos site, you can see the background image itself here - www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/img
Anyway, once you see how something like this works, you should be able to duplicate it using an HTML editor from a high-end WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver to a something basic, like Notepad.