sonar732 said:
Hello all,
I've been tasked as the only computer savy member of our church to
create a website. Most of our members still only have dial up.
A warning then - don't add too many images. If you do, optimise them as much
as possible to get them smaller in size - about 40K - 50K each.
(If you don't know what optimise means - as I didn't when I first read it,
post back. There is good free software available on the net to do the task.)
If dial-up speed is 56Kbps (as in Australia), work out how many you can
afford to use before the members get sick of waiting.
My plan is to have 5 sites linked to the home page with a total of 8
others linked to them.
I don't understand: "5 *sites* linked to the home page"
Linking a site is something like
<a href="
http://www.w3schools.com/" title="Visit W3Schools">Visit
W3Schools</a><br />
This is a link to w3schools - an external website.
Do you perhaps mean: "5 *pages* (on your own site) linked to the home page"
and "a total of 8 other *pages* linked to them"?
I don't have any high end photo manipulation
software like Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Photodraw.
OK, you may not need it. The free software I referred to is IrfanView
www.irfanview.com . It will do resizing and optimisation. It does other
things but I haven't tried much else, because I use Microsoft Picture It!,
which came with my installation, for my other image editing. (Do you have
any included software like this?)
There is also The Gimp, which I have read about, but never tried. It is also
free (google for it). From what I have read, it doesn't have an easy
interface, but it may be worth the price (nothing).
For navigation, I was planning on using a table with corner, header,
left, and body style.
There are many ways to set up navigation.
I just use links like this (in a table down the side <div>)
<a href="sitemap.html" target="_self" title="Site Map">
<img src="images/display/sitemap.gif"
alt="" title="Site Map" width="60" height="40" /><br />
Site Map</a>
You don't need an image such as I have here (in fact this one isn't very
good) so it would work with just this:
However, everytime that I try to place a photo
in the body as a background, it doesn't fit correctly.
This the CSS for adding a background image
body {background: url(images/display/04-08-24-1-bird-bath-2.jpg) repeat
fixed top;}
Not all parameters are needed,
e.g.
repeat (repeats in x and y direction - alternatives are no-repeat, repeat-x
and repeat-y))
fixed (fixes the position of the image )
top (specifies where the image is fixed)
A background image may not be the correct size for where you are trying to
place it and I understand you can't resize a background image. So you may
have to resize it (eg with IrfanView ) to get it to fit
As you are computer savvy, how savvy are you with CSS?
In case you don't know, the place to put CSS is in the <head> section, like
this:
<style type="text/css">
body {background: url(images/display/04-08-24-1-bird-bath-2.jpg) repeat
fixed top;}
</style>
To add code here, go to Code or HTML view and just type it in, or cut and
paste the code from here
CSS can also be placed in a external file
Will I have to eat the big bucks for the above software?
No, I have not used any paid for software on my site. It may not be the
greatest site, but it is completely home-made (see below my signature)
Sorry for being a noob...but I was just overwelmed with all the info
available.
Yeah, you and me both when I started in early 2005. It gets easier after a
while, especially if you take it in small steps.
