[Any feedback pls]

Nice work, considering you just started. Here is my list of suggestions:

 

Ditch the XHTML doctype and go with HTML - for an explanation, read the sticky in the HTML/XHTML forum here.

 

'click here' is kind of so 90s --- most folks nowadays know what to do when they see an underline

 

s are meant to be used in order of importance - so you make your most important title on your page

, the second most important

and so on - you jump from

to

 

Don't use

s inside

s -

is only for a line break - enclose every paragraph in

tags, and use your CSS to add spaced between the paragraphs.

 

Don't do

- make is

and then style that in your CSS.

 

Avoid inline styling - unless it's really something that will only happen one time on your entire site.

 

Drop the hit counter, too - it's amateurish.

 

And whatever LSW said - btw, I'm not colorblind, but that red on black is kind of hard on my eyes, too.

 

You have a few empty divisions - what's the point of those?

 

 

But other than that, VERY nice work for a first.

[Boycott blogs? Viewing the average web page creates 50% more emission]

Besides, every so often, I come across a site that is either coded very poorly or just looks like cr@p - and that takes my breath away and shuts me up for a minute - so I have zero carbon dioxide emissions during that time which helps to balance things overall.

[Color and CSS]

There are several different ways to specify color values in CSS, the best known are with color names and color numerical values.

Using color names may be well-known, but is not the ideal solution - and limiting. Hex colors and/or RPG Colors are the most useful.

Many Web designers have been building pages for years, either by hand or with an editor, and the idea of converting their site(s) to XHTML+CSS is daunting at best.

I would hope that any webdesigner who has been building sites for years has been using CSS for years. What baffles me is that there are still so many out there who believe that XHTML is some new standards -it's not. For a regular website, HTML4.01 strict is the ideal doctype - Read up on it in one of our stickies: HTML or XHTML

[standard layouts by adobe !!!!!!]

Why do you think you're limited by Adobe-defined layouts? Check out Idea 22

[Best method to test site?]

Does your firm have an Intranet - or simply, just shared drives that are accessible to everyone? Put the site there.

Therefore, I need to know how I can achieve this, without uploading the files to the server and risking it screwing up the site.

Uploading files to a server does not screw things up - if things appear screwed up after they've been uploaded, then either one forgot to upload all the parts, and/or the site wasn't done right to begin with.

[A Difference in IE & Firefox]

Wickham gave you a validating solution in his link a couple posts up.

 

What I was referring to is this - and maybe I have it wrong:

>      





</pre>
<table width="100%" style="border:0;background:#f5f5f5;">


Hand Tied Bouquets start from £40


   Flower :


Roses
Lillys




Quantity : 




</table>

I was thinking that having the table start and end inside the form tags was incorrect - but I may have been thinking wrong - someone enlighten me, please

[Designing variable height container div]

You have to upload it somewhere and then link to it.

[Border which doesn't affect page width...]

Don't know - I use my own space for testing - I think most the regulars here have their own. The free spaces often come with adds and limitations, but someone here may have a recommendation for you.

[Border which doesn't affect page width...]

I'm still not totally clear what you are doing - so without seeing it, it's hard to say. How about a test-page?

[A Difference in IE & Firefox]

Your form tags are still messed up - you need to (open and) close each form within its cells. You have one open and a couple random closing form tags.

[Design / Coding Quotes]

lm, I read the quotes on your blog, and I swear, some of them could have come from here.... Maybe we need to start our own Killersites collection?

[Border which doesn't affect page width...]

Is there a recommended maximum width to ensure that a web page will fit the 1024px size minus scroll bar width though?

As Wickham said - scrollbars can vary from 16 to 19 px - I'd go with 25 just to be sure.

 

I'd really like to see a link to the page you're working on.

[Border which doesn't affect page width...]

Does the border have to be limited to 10px? And if so, what is supposed to be on the outside of the border? If the 10px aren't a must, just create a wrapper at a width of 1024 px and color the body for the 'border'. However, if you design for a width of 1024, than anything viewed with a resolution of 1024 AND less will have a horizontal scroll bar.

[The Alaskan Lottery, who could have guessed?]

Why in the world would a California man go to Alaska in the winter????

.....but then, mental problems might explain his criminal behavior, too.............

[A Difference in IE & Firefox]

If you're still talking about the page you linked to in your intital post here - you only have an

in there - no other s.....

[CSS syntax question]

whereas just "#links a" could refer to any "a" element within an element with an id of "links":

 

link

But considering that an ID is supposed to be used only once on any given page, that kind of seems redundant - not wrong, but overkill. Or not? However, for a class, it makes perfect sense to me.

[The nightmare returns...]

It's a whopping 25 in Indiana right now with the forecast of 4 for the rest of the week.

Which is just one of the many reasons I am sooooooo happy not to be living in Indiana any more - or Germany for that matter, their weather isn't any better, either.

[The nightmare returns...]

I cannot even imagine.

 

Fuinny so, the natives in San Antonio wear heavy parkas, earmuffs, and mittens when the harsh Texas winter's hit and the temperatures drop to a frigid 40?F.... We really laughed at them during our first winter here - even so my toes sometimes got a little cold in my sandels in the early hours.

[What Are You Listening To Right Now?]

We should probably go ahead and open this again - doesn't make any sense to me to have a 'closed' topic that keeps getting posted to - I checked and signed out - the post-closed-posts are readable by non-mods as well.

[The Alaskan Lottery, who could have guessed?]

Life's little ironies......

[Paul Did a good test/challenge here for those that are interested...]

I really think Eric was just kidding......

[why doesn't my code for my menu bar......]

Makes sense to go with that for testing - about the Bradley Hand, could it have been the quotes that were missing in Dina's code?

font-family: bradley hand itc;

??

 

(Also not sure that Bradley is a good choice due to above mentioned reason)

[why doesn't my code for my menu bar......]

Chalkboard will only actually appear if people have that font installed on their machines.

[A Difference in IE & Firefox]

By the way, I had to re-register before I could enter the Forum!

It's a new forum - we all had to re-register.

[A Difference in IE & Firefox]

Graeme, you've been a Killersites member long enough to know about coding errors and the need to validate

 

Close your form where it needs to be closed (right after the form code, not at the bottom of your tables) and then close the twoCol division BEFORE your clearing division, not after.

 

And there is no need at all to start any HTML with a clearing division on top- what are you clearing?