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The site is looking good. It opened fast in Firefox and chrome for me, you must have fixed that problem. I did not take a lot of time looking at your site I have a meeting in 15 min. But if the #wrapper is what is surrounding everything change the margin to { 20px auto;} the 20px will push it away from the top and the auto will set the margins left and right to center the site in the browser. The margin on the top is just a personal personal preference, I just think it looks better to get the content away from the top when the header does not go all the way across. Your header does go all the way across so instead of 20px just make it 0 The before was for future reference. One more thing if you set the width to 1000px it is easier to do the math for your borders, margin, padding and what ever else you need to allow for.

I would use conditional comment. Here is how you write it: <!- -[if IE]> <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”whatever you named your style sheet”/> <![endif]- -> You write a separate style sheet with the css that you need to make what you want for IE. Then link it like this. What happens is this style sheet will over ride the rest of the css for the rest of the browsers making IE happy. You do not have to write all of your css over only what you need to over ride for IE. Had to sign back in forgot what I just wrote is a very simplified answer. Google conditional comment there is a bunch of info out there. Once you get used to using them it will not be that bad, just another IE pain.

I have not put a box shadow in a site for some time and was having trouble making it look the way that I wanted it to look. My discovery is that you do not need -moz or -webkit all you need is box-shadow to make it work in Firefox, Chrome and IE9. Just thought I would share. Because anytime that I can write less code is awesome to me.

Hello and welcome to the best forum that there is for getting help with your web designing/developing. We love to help as it helps us also. I took a look at your site. Just a little advice, I would get rid of all the bold text it is kinda distracting. I would change the font color from blue to black. With the background it is hard to see for a color blind person. This is something I never thought of until I started asking my wife for feed back. She is a little color blind. There you go your first piece of advice. Second is make sure to read the rules for you do not get into trouble. Hope you have fun here with the rest of us.

1. You will need a text editor. You do not need to go and buy one there are free ones out there that work great. Here are my two favorite, Komodo Edit and notepad ++ Both of these have everything that you need to help out with writing code. You do not need line numbers or color sintex but it helps. With Komodo Edit you save you files in a project folder. Notepadd++ is a little easier to start with. 2. You need some place to start studying code. Start here at this site. It is awesome. 3. Start with html and css like Andrea said. 4. You need a lot of time. If you want to build web sites for a living the learning process takes time. You will have to spend every minute that you can studying. No TV 5. Once you start learning a little code browse the internet and find a site that you like and copy it it is a great tool for learning. 6. Do not try to learn PHP untill you have a good understanding of html and css. 7. You need something like Photo Shop. But PS is quite on the expansive side. Gimp is free and is good for starting out. This is just my opinion, learn the code and do not really on something like Dream Weaver to do it for you. This can make a crutch and make moving past a certain point header. That is what happened to me. Also LSW wrote a great article on this subject here on this forum. Once I quite relying on Dream Weaver I started remembering code and can now write it faster than I can click it with Dream Weaver. Also when you get to the point of using a CMS like word press or one of the other ones you will have to know the code because it will not write it for you.

I belive the reason that for the blurry text on the second one is the bevel. I down loaded your psd but I can not load upload it where i got it from. I am sending you a pm I will be working into the night and i will keep checking to see if you responded.

Well I like what you did with the text in the top one. I pick that one. But here is the kicker my wife picked the bottom one, go figure. The bottom will print better.

Yes sir, but I was wrong to much angle on the hearts. Also get rid of the mask or whatever you used on the hearts for they are all red. You forgot to make the gold a little darker like LSW said. Make the font on listen.. a little larger for it takes up, I don't know like maybe 90% of the space between the hearts. Then maybe not so much a larger font size maybe just like 3 more px.Then adjust the tracking to make the letters a little farther apart, That is the AV with the two sided arrow underneath the AV. If the stroke on the date is 2px make it 1px. Make the, I think it is the glow on listen.. just enough to separate it from the background. To tell you the truth now without all the background clutter I like it just the way it is. The one before you rotated the hearts. Just move the hearts in a little bit to five a little more white space on the edge. Just had an idea you could make a smaller heart in the middle and curve the listen.. text a little bit more and put the text listen to on top and your heart on the bottom. I see you are reading this right now I have to leave be back in a couple of hours. If you want send me a copy of the psd file for i can play with it. You can get my e-mail in my profile.

What I would do to put 3 div's horizontally is just use the id to set the margins and the same with the 3 underneath.

I do not know way you would not want a list. But here is something I through together with div's It is not pretty but it puts it inline. <style type="text/css"> <!-- #content { width: 1000px; border: 1px solid #000; } #content #nails { width: 5000px; float: left; } #content #massage { width: 500px; float: left; } #content #massage ul li { display: inline; } #content #nails ul li { display: inline; } ul li { margin-left: 10px; } --> </style> </head> <body> <div id="content"> <div id="nails"> <h3>Nails</h3> <ul> <li>Manicure: $13</li> <li>Pedicure: $35</li> <li>OPI gel manicure: $35</li> <li>French manicure: $45</li> </ul> </div><!-- close nails--> <div id="massage"> <h3>Massage</h3> <ul> <li>10 minutes: $15</li> <li>20 minutes: $30</li> <li>30 minutes: $40</li> <li>Reflexology: $15</li> </ul> </div><!--close massage--> </div><!--close content--> </body> </html> Sorry forgot the imgs you can just give each img a id and then use margins to put it where you want it. Important you can not use padding on an img as padding is put on the inside.

I like what you did getting rid of the background stuff. Do what Andrea said braking the text into two lines and moving the hearts about 10px more or so from the edge. Try rotating the hearts at about a 45 deg or so and I think you have it.

I hate it when I do that, look at the code for ever and then finely see something like a misspelled word. Or something like forgetting the / on a closing tag. Glad we could help you out.

I have this site it is titan pro sci. That is the url also. Here is the problem when you Google titan pro sci and click on the link it comes up with and error that says the web page is not available. But that is not true the site is up. If you click in the address bar from the error page to reset the url and hit enter it goes there just fine. This is a wordpress site, could my .htaccess file be hacked?

If you can not remove it start with a transparent background and just copy the layers over that you want. I think it is looking good accept the disco ball is over powering. Maybe fade it a little. Are you using photoshop?

Oh ya forgot my wife's exact words on my spider thing when I showed it to her and asked what she thought it was are "that's a tick it's *&^%$# nasty". I think I would get rid of that if it was me.

The whitened text looks great, go smaller on the glow maybe. I would do everything LSW said for #3. I would get rid of the glow altogether in the text listen to your heart. I would get rid of all the gray stuff in the background, especially the spider without legs. Also center the date between the hearts after you do what LSW said to do with it. But the final decision is yours. Also i agree with LSW the last one does look more professional. Now that we have you totally confused good luck.

Ok now I know what you mean. I should not have responded to you, sorry. This is over my head. I did a little looking around although and found this on you tube http://ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=oefCfvZIYpM Also found some stuff at hotscipts.com Again sorry I had to break the link for it did not put the video here.

Could you be a little more specific? Or a link for we can see what you mean.

I like the 3rd one. I would make the name of your school a little more on the white side for partly color blind people like my wife. She says she can not see it very good. The gray thing on the left looks like a spider without legs to me. I am afraid of spiders and it made me squell like a little girl.

Try writing the conditional comment like this and see if it makes a difference <!- -[if IE]> <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”whatever you named your style sheet”/> <![endif]- ->

You will be experiencing problems with this a lot with IE, well not so much sense IE9. We have to write what is called conditional comments to deal with this problem. Conditional comments in short are css rules that we write in a separate css file and link them to the page to deal with IE. You do not generally have to rewrite the hole style sheet just the css like changing the margin for example to make things line up in IE. If you look through the archives here you will find a lot on this. If You are just starting out I would suggest that you get familiar with html and css and then work on the conditional comments as you progress. This is just my personal opinion.

When you copy someone else's work it is called plagiarism. Can hold some serious consequences. To avoid this do not do it. But if you do. What I learned in collage comp class is give credit by giving the authors name, when it was wrote and where you can find the article. You can find out how to do this at properly at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/ Now as far as the e-mail thing goes if I unsubscribe I unsubscribe do not send me another e-mail even 5 years down the road. You will get a nasty one back from me and I will just send you into my spam filter.

Can not help you with your problem. But I am responding to help you with a problem you might have in the future. When naming files you should use camel casing or a dash not an underscore. Why is because sometime you might need to underline something. What is I find mostly used is the camel casing. This is starting your first word in lowercase and each word following with uppercase like this camelCasing. There are times like your $_POST when you need to use the underscore because that is how the variable was wrote for you.

I might be wrong but what I think is happening is that your browser stores pages that you have visited. So what I do when this happens to me is close the browser and reopen it. Some times this works some times it does not. I probably would not worry about it to much sense you are still building the site as it will not be a problem when you have the site done.

I do not know who told you that you have to be on site to fix web site issues but they are wrong. I am in the Iowa and have sites all over the country and my partner has sites in Europe. Believe me when we have a problem with a site over seas we do not go there, even though we would like to.