HTML - Becoming A Web Designer

hi,all what do you all think about the shelly cashman series,i bought the html textbook 2006 4th edition.from ebay a few days ago used.I hope to learn on my own cause my college i am in only taught me the basics.i want to be a freelance web designer after i graduate from this career school college in 5 months.right now there teaching me dreamweaver cs4.Let me ask what does it take to be a professional web designer,i mean my school is a 12 month course for a diploma but it seems to me they are just teaching me the basics.Any info will be helpful...thanks....

Hello

I've been doing graphic design for a few years now and have always made my wesbites (non related to graphic design) for a few years in photoshop, creating large images for pages, looked quite nice, unfortunately not very seo friendly, venturing into the world of real coding!I Started developing my website further, creating a good rich text and well linked site but unfortunately the cosmetic side of it was lacking, after studying up on html and css, I decided to use a template, due to my coding skills being very basic, with a little knowledge being a dangerous thing my website looked quite nice, but unfortunately the validation errors where hitting nearly 100 on each page! Also I had a few other problems

My coding skills, still need work. But thankfully I'm still reading/watching/listening/learning when I can.

Now I've scrapped the template, wanting to start fresh, redo my css and html using a dreamweaver hybrid, header, footer and right bar template, my main problem at the moment is how do I drop down my main content and sidebar div's to allow me to insert a div for a menu?

What I'm looking for desperately is some kind person who has a little free time to pm me, and help me out occasionally when I hit roadblocks, rather than creating bulks of mess's on forums for 50 people to debate what's right and wrong and point out that my questions have been answered a million times before and run a search, which is all very good and well, but I really could do with some real-time information and help from someone that knows what they are doing!

Thank you!

Matt

P.S, Managed to fix the menu div- I think, but if someone would be willing to help me out and share advice like I mentioned in my last paragraph, would be very grateful!

HI,

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post, I could not find anywhere that this question really fits.

I remember a while ago, I came across a wallpaper with the resolution guides on it, so i could resize my browser and see how the site will look at different resolutions. A long story later, I no longer have this wallpaper and can not find it anywhere. I was just wandering if anyone has one they could email/direct me to.

Thanks in advance
Amar

I'm designing a simple web page for school, and am trying to figure out fix the background correctly.

I have managed to set the background in one spot like this:

http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.a...und-attachment

but need to figure out how to wrap the text so it does not interfere with the background image because I have it aligned to the bottom left.

I am using Front Page 2003.

I can elaborate more if needed.

Can anybody help?

Web Design Company is a site previously built in using only html and javascript.Now it wants to switch to J2EE or php.What is the best choice for it,can any one help?











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