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MrsLarry · Mar 31, 2006, 03:20 PM

Calling all HTML junkies... help!!!

This is a side project of mine and my MIL, i did the webpage, but why - WHY?? does the center table have a double border??? I cannot figure it out for the life of me. I'm not a techno-idiot by any means, but for some reason and am stumped...

www.specialtyconfections.com

Calimus · Mar 31, 2006, 03:30 PM

drop a style="border: 1px solid yourcolorhere;" in the <table> tag, you can take out the bordercolor and border properties.

MrsLarry · Mar 31, 2006, 03:43 PM

eh... not exactly it either, if i do that the yellow inside doesn't touch the red border, there's white space in between...

Super Mario · Mar 31, 2006, 03:48 PM

Mine isn't white but see through. I created a css rule and applied it to the table and got rid of his border settings.

Put this in the head section:

<style type="text/css">

#maintable {
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #990000;
}

</style>

Change your table properties to:

<table id="maintable" "width="80%" align="center" cellpadding="10">

In the future use pure css and ditch tables for layouts like that.

andi*pandi · Mar 31, 2006, 04:32 PM

looks nice tho!

Mithras · Mar 31, 2006, 05:42 PM

I think the double border looks nice, for what it's worth.
How is it going into business with your mother in law?

Super Mario · Mar 31, 2006, 05:44 PM

I prefer the double border on his site too.

Ozmodiar · Mar 31, 2006, 06:47 PM

Yikes. Couple of things:

1. ColorBlender so nobody's eyes start bleeding
2. Recode in (X)HTML and CSS. Faster loading pages and you'll rank higher in search engines.

Super Mario · Apr 1, 2006, 03:48 AM

Originally Posted by Ozmodiar

Yikes. Couple of things:

ColorBlender

Awesome site, man.

MrsLarry · Apr 1, 2006, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by andi*pandi

looks nice tho!

Hey thanks!!

Originally Posted by Mithras & Super Mario

"We like the double border" - to paraphrase

Really? I always thought it looked a little amatuer-esque. Maybe I'll re-think...

Originally Posted by Mithras

How is it going into business with your mother in law?

We get along pretty well, i'll tell ya though, it has been a true test. When we're working like crazy to try and meet a deadline, like our upcoming show, we tend to get on each other's nerves, which can be expected, but never to the extent we don't just tell the other one to "shut the eff up"

and we both move on. (Yes, we really talk to eachother like that, very surreal as i would never say anything like that to my own mother!

) It's all still pretty new, but business is starting to roll in slowly, thanks to some show we've done, and some word-of-mouth.

Originally Posted by Ozmodiar

. Recode in (X)HTML and CSS.

Yeah, I've got to do some reading up. I taught myself HTML back in the day, got pretty good with it, enough to make my living off it. But have yet to master CSS and XHTML. How much different is it? Know any good sites for me to pick up some know-how?

Thanks for the nice words everyone! Keep your fingers crossed this thing takes off and i can quit the corporate BS game!

Super Mario · Apr 1, 2006, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by MrsLarry

Yeah, I've got to do some reading up. I taught myself HTML back in the day, got pretty good with it, enough to make my living off it. But have yet to master CSS and XHTML. How much different is it? Know any good sites for me to pick up some know-how?

It's wicked easy and fun. HTML is crude, ugly and boring compared. Go to http://www.cssplay.co.uk to see how fun it can be.

Ozmodiar · Apr 1, 2006, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by MrsLarry

Know any good sites for me to pick up some know-how?

http://www.webmonkey.com//authoring/...tutorial1.html
That's a really good overview and tutorial on how to get started with CSS.

Depending on how you feel about blogs, you could also start regularly checking out sites like StyleGala and A List Apart. Stylegala is more of a compendium of design blogs, with different people submitting articles and tutorials all the time on design and functionality. ALA is just an all-around great site authored by the best people in web design. If I can't figure out how to make something work, chances are they figured it out a long time ago.

My favorite blog is mezzoblue, authored by Dave Shea (the guy who started the CSS Zen Garden).