Lauren DeSteno
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From:
Minneapolis, MN
Registered:
Oct 19, 2001
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Re: Lauren Explains It All
Posted:
Jul 11, 2003 12:05 AM
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X, you're right - there's a lot of stuff going on with your page, and it's pretty hard to diagnose. However, before you go too crazy with font sizes and cross-browser compatibility, you should know that if the person viewing your site doesn't have the "New York" font installed, they won't see your text in that fabulous New York font. It will default to Arial, Helvetica, Times, or Verdana (the "safe" fonts - 99.9% of computers have them).
And don't worry - you're not going crazy, Netscape and IE DO display font sizes slightly differently. Here is a link to a great webmonkey tutorial for your reference:
Sizing up the Browsers
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/41/index3a.html?tw=design
Also, while photoshop is a good tool, no - make that the world's most awesome and indispensible tool (umm...yeah, I learned a whole lot of cool new stuff in Photoshop this weekend and I'm sooooo thrilled I could just kiss the people that invented it!) You might want to take a look at:
1. Learning CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) - CSS is a great way to control the layout, design, colors, typefaces of your page. The great thing about CSS is that instead of writing down on every page and every paragraph what you'd like something to look like, you can write one CSS document and have all of your pages "read" and display that style.
Here's another great webmonkey tutorial:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/authoring/stylesheets/tutorials/tutorial1.html
2. Tables - tables RULE. Get good at using them - or go to Macromedia's website and download a trial version of Dreamweaver - and let the software do the work for you.
Macromedia > Dreamweaver
http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/
3. If you're totally stuck in Netscape Composer, and you know how to use Microsoft Word, you can create a New Office Document, and select "Web Page". It's a quick and easy stopgap solution while you are honing your other skills.
I hope this helps!
Lauren
(and Oliver, the friendly Magic 8-ball)
(8) <---- that's him!
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