Im lookin in to makin a website on Brinkster or something and hiding the URL with cjb. I wanna know what good programs are out so i can desgin the site. I have frontpage 98 and its good but i wanted to know what else was out there.
And Can i set this up in Frontpage?
I want where the image for tables are to be set there and then have text and links over them. Could i do that?
ALso, could i have the place for title have the image of a blue background behind it and have text over the top?
And, where the body is, could i have the blue rectangle and other shapes be there with more text of it?
I cant seem to do this cause when i place the image and try to put text over it, the image is moved down.
I think i will make images in Zbrush to use as the background. Ill then use Microsoft Publisher to make the site. This will be easy now cause i can use Frontpage to fine tune it and my HTML code knowledge to finish it off.
hey I think EZ has used Brinkster…you may want to message him about brinkster…let me know when you get yer site up and running and I will check her out 
itll probably take a lil while cause ill be workin at in on and off. Itll just be so i can host images and stuff there. I wanna make it look good though 
I just checked Brinkster and i think ill use angelfire cause you get lots of space and the interface seems easy to me. The bad thing is the long URLs but with cjb i can get one that is real short.
Here’s a link to source code, examples, free downloadable website stuff, software/freeware, howtos…
It’s the goldmine for webmastering:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/
thanks a lot KAthy. The site has TONS of stuff.
LW, i design web sites for a living. what you need to do to add text over top of your image in the cell is add this chunk of code to the cell
background=“imagenamehere.jpg”
you may have to add the folder the pic is in in front
ex. background=“images_folder/LWTB.gif”
about the color of the rectangles you want. well these are called cells and they can only ever be square and rectangle. all you need to do is add this piece of code to them
bgcolor="#B7B782" or what ever color code you wish to have.
Also about programs. Macromedia dreamweaver is a good one to use. I think its the best. if you have photoshop or fireworks they will generate HTML code for you as well. photoshop uses imageready. you take your web graphics that you’ve made and jump to image ready and export as HTML. its very useful. firewoks does the same.
Hope this helps.
thanks a lot Krippler!
so what the code does is make the image the background of the cell so that i can then do whattever i want to the cell itself? Thanks cause i did NOT know that.
I know how to use Frontpage and Dreamweaver is awesome but i dont know if there is a demo i can use or not.
How do i use the imageready so i can export the grpahics as HTML? Is it a program i must have?
Thanks again for your help
Just something to add to Krippler’s great advice…
If you’re using an image as a background for a table cell (<td background=“whatever.jpg”> ) make sure the image is longer (taller) than you need to fill the cell, if you’re using regular html text sizes. Depending on different browsers and platforms, the copy will appear larger or smaller and will expand the table cell accordingly. If you have the image sized exactly to what you think you’ll need, and a “cell blow-out” happens,your image will tile (repeat). Of course, using style sheets will give you more predictability.
There are issues with different browsers, but with a little patience and ingenuity, you can pull off virtually any design using tables.
As for software, I prefer Macromedia products: Dreamweaver, Freehand, Fireworks and Flash. Fireworks does a great job with slicing images, although I always rework the the tables it exports. Macromedia provides 30 day full working demos for download for most of their products. Here’s a link for the Dreamweaver download.
Good luck with your site!
Adman
Notepad, vi, emacs…
I must be one of the last dinosaurs that believe that HTML should be written with a text editor. The only thing that’s useful with an HTML editor is to do pixel-precise stuff. But those should be avoided. The whole concept behind HTML is that you don’t know what it’ll look like on the user’s screen as browsers are free to implement things in a lot of different ways. Unfortunately, we see more and more stuff that’s just made for Internet Explorer or use flash and scripts and the whole concept the web was built around is getting lost 
I believe that notepad is still the best way to fine tune a webpage
well i can code in notepad just as well because i understand all the code, but the truth of the matter is when i design i use dreamweaver and what i do is get a rough butch copy done quickly in DW all cells and tables in a quarter the time it would take me to make it in notepad, then i bounce over to the html view to do all my editing and cleaning. in this business i would rather get the page layout done quick and loose all that typing time that actually costs me money in the long run.
i just think its a time saver when your trying to be quick and make money. all good points guys. my 2 cents.
oh and btw LW image ready is part of photoshop so if you have photoshop there is a little button in the bottom of the tool palette that says jump to image ready. hit this and it will take you over. from there you can find lessons to do in the help menu and under file you export optimized as… very easy to use. fireworks is also another good one i use.
Macromedia also has recently purchased Homesite which I use. It works quite well. You can do a lot of things with drag and drop to get a rough layout, then you can code to tweak it in the same program 
Krippler,
I cant seem to find the button you mentioned. I have photoshop 4.0.1 in case it doesnt work with that.