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BAZ
02-03-04, 10:15 AM
Well its finally here. The new Little Rays Reptile Zoo website. Took me a while to make it as it is my first website ever.

www.raysreptiles.com

JD@reptiles
02-03-04, 10:24 AM
very cool man. looks good!

Sunrunner
02-03-04, 10:39 AM
Well done Baz ..... It looks Great!

josefg
02-03-04, 11:20 AM
Very well done BAZ!

Just one small suggestion.... in text-only areas use text not images. The site will load faster and it also makes future updates easier. If you need any help feel free to contact me on <a href="mailto:josefeg@onvol.net">this email address</a> or on msn.

NewLineReptile
02-03-04, 11:37 AM
Very good Baz

Brandon

BAZ
02-03-04, 11:45 AM
Thanks man. I wasnt sure how to lock the text size though and I didnt want the increased text size to throw the page out of whack which it was doing. I know there is a way around it but I still havn't figured it out yet :P

josefg
02-03-04, 11:48 AM
You can use tables for that (you can set the size of the table using the width attribute). To set the size of the font and the font itself the best thing to do is to use cascading style sheets.

BAZ
02-03-04, 11:56 AM
K Ill figure out how to do that in Dreamweaver and then update the whole thing once I have figured it out. Thanks man.

josefg
02-03-04, 12:12 PM
I think Dreamweaver does the cascading style sheet for you (may be mistaken, as I have never used it). If you want to do the table thing manually just do this:

<pre>

&lttable width="10px" border="0"&gt
&lttr&gt
&lttd&gtYour text here&lt/td&gt
&lt/tr&gt
&lt/table&gt

</pre>

You don't need to leave a blank line between the tags... lol I don't know why it came like this.

josefg
02-03-04, 12:16 PM
Oh yeah and where it says width="10px" you should put the width in pixels of you choice instead of the 10 ;)

Invictus
02-03-04, 12:36 PM
Fantastic job, Baz! If you need HTML help, just send me a message either here or to invictus@shaw.ca . I've been designing websites since about 1996, so there is nothing HTML that I don't know. :)

BAZ
02-03-04, 02:14 PM
Wicked thanks guys. I know my design but html I need to brush up on.. thats why i kinda depend on programs like Fireworks and Dreamweaver. But it would be good for me to know all this stuff to get better.

josefg
02-03-04, 02:49 PM
BAZ if you want you can check out http://www.w3schools.com/

;) Hope this helps man, and feel free to contact me if you need any help.

MAN OF STEEL
02-03-04, 04:21 PM
Hey man, looks GREAT! Keep up the good work.

tHeGiNo
02-03-04, 04:50 PM
Baz, to lock font sizes and the like just use Style Sheets (.css). In order to do so, make a new file in any text editing program. Make a line that looks identical to this:

.font {font-family: verdana; font-size: 70%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;}

For a quick explanation:

font-family Simply the font you want to use.
font-size As suggested, the font size.
margin This is the margin to be set for the text from the bottom, top, left and right of the table surrounding.

Adjust the size accordingly. The word I bolded up there, in this case 'font' can be changed to whatever you want to. This is just the variable to refer to in the HTML. To put the style sheet into effect with the HTML, simple type <p class="font"> before your text in the HTML. Again, the word font may be changed to whatever you like. If there is a section you would like to be bolded, simply add bold; to the statement. It would then look like this:

{font-family: verdana; font-size: 70%; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;}

You will notice each selection is divided with a " ; " If there is any other commands you need to incorporate into the CSS let me know and I will you the according tag.

In order to put the CSS into effect, you need to put the following into the HTML, in the <HEAD>:

< link name="name" rel="StyleSheet" type="text/css" href="link.css" >

name may be changed to what you would like you name your stylesheet, and link is the directory to your .css file.

Hope that helped.

**EDIT**

In the above HTML code, remove the space after the < and before the >. I had to add spaces in order for it to show in the thread.

Lisa
02-03-04, 09:14 PM
Great looking page, really slow for us dial up users though.

shmotz666
02-04-04, 05:11 PM
looks damn good, well done man. nice job.

Kyle Walkinshaw
02-04-04, 05:45 PM
Looks awsome BAZ!

Swampwalker
02-04-04, 10:07 PM
I second Lisa's point, it is very slow for dial-up.

BAZ
02-04-04, 10:14 PM
Time to get high speed ;)

lol

Ill eventually make it more friendly for dialup.

Swampwalker
02-04-04, 10:24 PM
It looks great. Can't wait to see all the pages when they are done.

Dom
02-04-04, 10:53 PM
Wow Baz its nice to finally see it up .. Looks great man .. good job!

Jeff Hathaway
02-05-04, 09:27 AM
Hey Baz,

Some of us poor souls can't get high speed due to our location:-)

It was worth the wait, though. Good job, and glad to see things are going well for Little Ray's.

Jeff Hathaway
Sciensational Sssnakes!!