Hi everyone!
I used to be a webpage-fanatic back in high school, when basic html and javascript were all you needed to know. Recently, I tried to brush up on this skill so that I could try some freelance work designing or editing people's webpages. Well.... it's been rough :-(. I am still trying to get used to css and it's tags and how priorities work.
I have learned CSS, learned a lil PHP, and made a site for this imaginary tax/gambling company called Quentin Cross LLP within several days. I did it all in notepad, so as to make editing and debugging much easier, as well as to help learn css-coding.
Issues I'm aware of:
1. Spacing and absolute measurements. Tables within tables. TD padding, img padding, P width... all lead to spacing problems and alignment problems. This is something I will be smart about going forward. Look under "Investing Info" to see my mis-aligned image, as an example.
I also used this to help me with spacing:
p {
width:475px; } to try and keep my words from scrunching or spreading out based on people's browser size.
1b. Is there a better way to make a layout than php include in tables?
2. My pictures suck. I saw some cool stuff at different pages, but when I tried it in Photoshop, it ended up looking like Floyd Mayweather's opponent after the fight :-\. Stuck to stock photos and a lame header.
3. Navigation bar looks lame. Not sure how to fix this. I want to make it minimalistic, but something seems missing.
Please take the time to just look through the design. I used a basic table (with header, left-side navigator, main portion, and footer) as my layout and used php include and put my table stylings in style.css so as to make page source codes shorter and make things more organized. I wanted to cool graphics, but I SUCK at graphics.