Hmm, coding in Blogger is a lot harder than I thought.
So does anyone know how to make coding for a simple div layer layout in a Blogger compatible format? For example, I have this layout already made - I just need it to be compatible in Blogger, including the tags for posts, archives, about me, etc.
Just sign up and you can get a sub-domain of ______.co.nr. It's totally free!
I suggest using Bravenet or Geocities if you have no idea what to do. Both of these web hosts give pre-made layouts and stuff to help beginners. If you want to use a layout like from CS or one you made, I highly suggest Freewebs. There are no banners or pop-up ads on your site and it's free.
Make sure you learn basics such as making links, showing pictures, and all that good stuff. The best place to learn it all would be Lissaexplains.com. It's an excellent site to teach all you need to know about HTML and other codings.
Like Katie-Kate said, just read a lot of tutorials as well. =) Good luck with everything!
Looks nice. Like EternalSorrow said, you might want to make it a bit smaller, because some people own small laptop screens and it would look crappy if they had to scroll. So resize it a bit.
The colors go well, and it's got a nice theme. I do agree though that a white background is about as boring as you can get. You might want to try white with red stripes, various sizes and opacities, or maybe a cross-hair background that looks plaid, with red in it. Something along those lines. (even just a faint red color for your background color would be alright)
And the circle may be tricky for the iFrame, but whatever floats your boat! If you think it looks fine having a square area for text within a circular area, that's fine. To make it look a bit better, you might want to add two corners using brushes to make it look like the text frame was supposed to be like that. If you know what I mean...
I learned at an early age. I started my first website with one of them crappy geosite things from Yahoo, and I looked at HTML coding instead of the wizard thing, and I was like, "woah!" Then I became interested in website coding.
I started by examining the coding from my geosite, adding different things and seeing what the coding looked like. I then went to a few sites and learned some more. I became really good friends with Mimitchi (or Cheriwing) who knows HTML like the back of her hand. She helped my a lot with learning HTML, CSS, PHP, etc. And I still go to her for website advice on coding.
I would also go to pages and view the page source, and examine their coding, to see what it looked like. I didn't steal these, I just simply looked at them to see how they did a frames layout, a div layout, etc. Although some of these I would copy and paste into Frontpage, where I could fiddle with the coding and learn how to use it. I would not use the coding on my sites, just to play with.
I also got a few books, but they don't help much. They did teach me some tricks on how to do some things, but otherwise it didn't teach me large concepts like iFrames or PHP, at least not very well.
And overtime from just being a webmaster of several sites, I've gotten the hang of it and I know HTML really well. I've memorized all the basic things such as coding for links, images, text formating, color, backgrounds, etc.
Now for web & graphic designing.
I'm a very creative person. This comes in handy when designing layouts or graphics, because I can come up with clever ideas on how to display it. My whole life I grew up with Microsoft Image Composer 1.5, which is like Paint with some effects and better use of tools. I had to spend hours to make a decent graphic, and that got pretty annoying.
Although now I recently got Photoshop about a month ago, and I'm learning it pretty speedily. Now I can make decent graphics in a few minutes, as opposed to the hours I spent on Microsoft Image Composer. There is still a billion things I need to learn on Photoshop, but I'm getting there. I usually just fiddle with it and learn new things that way, but with some things I have to look it up.
I do graphic and layout designing in my free time. I find it relaxing and fun, so I do it quite often. On Saturdays I would just spend time making pretty banners or nice graphics for future layouts. I found it entertaining, and I liked doing it. So I've just become an "artist" at graphic and layout designs, and I enjoy doing it.
I'm Ivystar, the owner of StarClan Prophecies (link) and a few other sites. I'm pretty good at designing web layouts and doing HTML coding, but I do screw up sometimes, so I joined here to get help when I need it. =)
I did the table thing as you said, and if you look at the link, nothing has changed. I added the <body> tag and put the table tag right under it, and the </table> tag under the </div> tag as you said, and nothing happened.
English Rose ~ herm, I could have sworn I stuck a <body> tag in there. My bad. I'll try that table thing out and see it it works.
Valiant-star ~ like Vangs said, the capitalization and lower case tags don't really matter. ^^;; I've done that tons of times and it doesn't affect it. And yes, it is a Warriors fan site, based on the series by Erin Hunter. =) If you like cats, you'll really enjoy the series because they're really good. I suggest trying it out. Oh and thanks on the layout comment. ^^
Vangs ~ I have no idea about the whole XHTML and HTML versions, I just do normal HTML as I know it. =/ So but yeah, it's not too important to have the tags identical in uppercase/lowercase terms, like what I said with Valiant-star.
I'm going to try the table thing English Rose gave me, and I'll post on how the layout turns out. ^^ Hopefully it works!
mmkay, I promised my fans I'd have the layout changed like a week ago, but I'm having trouble completing the layout because I don't know how to center it.
So if you could help me out as soon as possible, that'd be great.
I've tried a couple dozen different ways to center it, and nothing seems to be working. I've figured out how to center the background, and that's about it. So I need help centering the content & navigation, as well as the banner.
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