cassieblue

As some of you may know, I'm primarily a print designer. Well, times being what they are, I know I MUST delve back into the web world. I took several classes in college; Flash, Actionscript, Dreamweaver, advanced DW, etc...but I sucked at them all. Now however, I NEED to get a few sites up as well as my portfolio online. I'm probably gonna have tons of questions for you webbies in the future, but here's a couple basic ones: I've designed my index page at 800x600, but when I preview it in the browser, I have to scroll over to see it all. I thought that size was normal screen size, what have I done wrong? Also, I'm doing my portfolio in kind of a hand drawn style using DW. I have my background all designed as a .jpg, do I have to create editable areas on top of that background in order to have text? Also, what (and I know this is asked a lot) BASIC resources would you all recommend? Ya know, like web design for dummies?

Urbanmyth

Most likely the issue you are having with your display is a CSS error, be sure to set the page width to the proper format you want it to display at. Also, if you need a "Web Designer For Dummies" reference material, I HIGHLY suggest the following link.

HTML Code Tutorial - Free Reference Guide for Help with HTML Tags Including Form, Frames, Tables, and more!

And yes, you will need to simply create a editable area on top of your image to be able to add text, though that wouldn't be hard. Are you doing this all by hand? Or do you use a program such as dreamweaver? It makes a big difference in which ya use as to what info I can give you. Just let me know if you need some help.