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Proteus
11-26-2004, 09:07 PM
Hi!
Here is what I've learning in these last days:
I've reading a lot about CSS format.

What I like is the great control of your pages that you get using css: you can change the color, font, background, behavior, etc, etc, even the position of elements. You just make one single file with the extension .css specifying all this and add an id (let me call it this way) to your webpages, so when you want to change anything, you just make the change in the .css file and that's it...

What I don't like is the fact that when you don't know any css (like in my case) you could spend hour and hours learning and practicing, BUT what I would say is the advantage, is the fact that now that I understand more of CSS, I can say that this will save me so much time and pain when I want to change my pages.

Now, I've also been doing .php pages, this I believe will help me to simplify my website ( recommended for those websites that use a lot of pages ), but this is another story...

Finally, to display my last work, I did this mini website:

http://www.sl_pinatas.the-pinata-maker.com/

It's using css and php combined ( I also used the minimum amount of tables, ... yes I can use css to control positioning, but I still need to practice that, and I was dying for creating a website...)

Please, take a look at the pages that I did and let me know how they display in your screen... thanks!


Proteus.

Momo
11-26-2004, 10:42 PM
The site looks good on my screen. I like the homepage. However, I dislike a couple of things:

First, I don't like that many of the side links display in two lines. It seems confusing. The rollover links help though.

Secondly, I clicked the "how to play the pinata game" link. On that page, all the site elements seem scattered. I think that links like the "translate thins page" should be aligned left. Also, the search box should be centered. At the bottom of the page, the copyright text appears in two lines.

Third, I think that there should be some sort of bividing bar between the "pull string pinatas Beautifully Crafted Pull String Pinatas" text on the homepage. In my previous designs, I have used 1 pixel tables as bars.

Finally, I think that the table with the "hello kitty" pinata on the homepage should me lengthened to be as long as the other tables. Currently, it is a couple of pixels shorter that the rest.

Perhaps you should also shorten the "pull string pinatas features:" table end where the other tables do and also remove the additional pictures or make a link to them somewhere.

The non-aligned tables make the site appear more messy to me.


Otherwise great site!

Proteus
11-27-2004, 01:16 AM
great feedback!

OK, now I changed the header. I had to use a table, because I was using "positioning" with css, but I don't quite like to position elements using css because the differences on browsers...

I couldn't add a dividing <hr> or table after the header: I believe I have so many lines and squares in the pages... one more would be too many... but I added one
to give it more space.

All the links under the subtitle "other related pinatas:"
belong to another website (where you saw the search box is part of another website, which I expect to remodel soon... ) the link "translate my site" I placed on the right mainly because... well.. I guess it could be on the left where the envelope is, as you suggested... I was not sure if this makes a difference...

About the cells where the pinatas are, I added the code: "vertical-align: top;" I believe this align them a little better...

the additional pics, well... I don't have more pics, and didn't want to make a whole page only for that pic (is only one long pic with 3 thumbs)

well... I guess that's it for now...

-Proteus

ps. If I guess right, you were using opera... weren't you?...