Just made my own website (under construction but still nice)

[K-Star]

http://bengal.missouri.edu/~ljrckd/awesomeness/home.html

Made completely from scratch in HTML, and loaded onto the special little personal space that each individual student receives on the school servers. One of these days, might even get my own domain or something or find another host. For now, may as well make use of the space given to me (and we get alot.) Basically, I've decided I'm tired of Geocities.

Also... I wanted the copyright paragraph to be much smaller... how do I do that again? *is still foggy in remembering her HTML basics*

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Re: Just made my own website (under construction but still n

Well, the old-school way:

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
<font size="-2">text goes here</font>
</pre><hr />

Newer school, you add some CSS and make a class for your copyright block.

In your HEAD section:

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
<style type="text/css">

.copyright { font-size: 0.4em }

</style>
</pre><hr />

And then the copyright block:

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
<div class="copyright">text goes here</div>
</pre><hr />

There are probably about eight billion others ways to do this, too.

Also, you might consider making your background tileable and toning it down a little. It interferes with the readability somewhat.

 

[K-Star]

Re: Just made my own website (under construction but still n

Ah, thanks. I'd prefer the old school way since I have little experience with CSS (apart from the centering code I got from the tutorial I used.)

As for the background... I did set it so it was stationary so you could at least scroll the text past the big white stars to read easier. I really like that background (made it myself!) Or perhaps I could find another color to use for the font...

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Re: Just made my own website (under construction but still n

The problem with your starfield is that it's not big enough to accommodate all monitor resolutions. It's only 1280x800. A lot of people browse at 1600x1200 or higher these days. In any case, I browse at 1280x1024.

I tweaked your starfield a bit to make it seamless: http://gorzek.com/emo/starfield.png

I hope that helps!

 

[K-Star]

Re: Just made my own website (under construction but still n

Wow, my starfield ISN'T BIG ENOUGH??? I'm surprised! I wasn't aware that such high resolutions were common! It was initially made as a background for a wallpaper I was working on, so it fits my monitor just fine (my laptop is widescreen.)

I'll try out your tweaked starfield. Thanks!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Re: Just made my own website (under construction but still n

My advice for background images is to either not use one, use one that is tileable (so it should be seamless), or use a layer that sticks to the very top or very bottom of the page as your background.

You can never assume that screens will be a certain size anymore.

 

[K-Star]

Re: Just made my own website (under construction but still n

Well I switched my original starfield image out for the altered one. It looks alot better now when tiling (though I still have it set to a fixed position just to help with reading the text.)