My website template

[JellyWerker]

Hi, I would like some critique on a web template I am making for the art part of my website. I have not optimized the code yet, (it was made by hand and aprtly by quanta plus.) It is here, just follow the link

http://jellywerker.cjb.cc/index.html

[Icefalcon]

Kanda plain, but I guess that better than it being cluttered.

[ArcaneFalcon]

It isn\'t bad.  Simple can be a good thing.  I mean, just check out my new website layout.  The only thing plainer than that is a text file

It could use some more color though.  I\'m not a big fan of gray/black with blue links.  It reminds me too much of the default windows shell.

[JellyWerker]

what blue links? you must have your browser preferences set custom.

[Boldstorm]

I am getting blue links also with underlines. Looks like the google_links tag thing you have is only working on one link on all of the pages. I would suggest instead of Javascript to do that using CSS. But that is just my opinion.

[ArcaneFalcon]

haha!  Yeah, looks like someone is using mozilla to build their web pages and not IE.  I get white links under mozilla, and blue ones under IE.  Yeah, I would highly recommend going CSS.  IE just messes too much stuff up.

[JellyWerker]

thanks for the tips, I had been using konqueror, mozilla 1.2, and firefox 1 to test it so far, and I will use the css, but I wasn\'t using javascript, just html.

[Boldstorm]

When I was viewing the source before I was getting some Javascript that doesn\'t seem to be there anymore, it looked like it was trying to set the background colors for your hover over link effects but I didn\'t look at it that much to tell you for sure.
Not seeing it now though when I look at the source.

Also, IMO when ever you are designing a webpage you should always always always try and view it in IE if possible. Unless you are on a Linux box or a MAC (Since I think Mac\'s version of IE is so picky it\'s not even funny). The reason is even if you don\'t use it still a large majority of the people who will be viewing your page probably do.

But overall not bad.

[Adeli]

Not bad at all, I agree though, use CSS... it\'s my best friend when it comes to site design... gave me quite a few A+\'s back in highschool (ahh they were the days)...

[JellyWerker]

If you are good at css, would you help me perhaps? I know html, but my css skills are at best nonexistent. Also, I am on a red hat linux 9 box.

[Annah]

1st of all - \"email me at: xXx@xXx.xXx\" . Delete your email address from there, a lot of crawlers will \"intercept\" it and you\'ll win some spams!
 2nd, err ... Heya!
 The template looks simple and \"cute\". But if you started working on greyscale, why using blue?  ?(

[Harkin]

http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

go there... XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and a lot of others... basically all you need to know .. where I started learning my CSS

[Boldstorm]

Originally posted by JellyWerker
If you are good at css, would you help me perhaps? I know html, but my css skills are at best nonexistent. Also, I am on a red hat linux 9 box.

CSS is actually pretty easy to learn. Just look at a few tutorials and you will get the basics.

As far as doing this on a Linux box, do you have access to a Windows box? Only reason I am asking is so you can view what the pages will look like in IE.
And please someone don\'t start Linux is better and so is Mozilla but since a majority of people still use Internet Evil then you need to know what they are seeing.

[JellyWerker]

Thanks for the replies, I am working on my css, and am fixing the email link right now. Also, I am not doing blue links, IE is messing up the site. I am redoing it though.