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Okay, I'm trying to build a website, very plain, very simple.
I've designed the layout in Photoshop and now I'm saving individual elements for the web and importing them into Dreamweaver.
My first question is, how do set it up so that the browser window is constrained to a certain size so that I don't end up with huge areas of white space loafing around the outside ?
Any helps from you lovely peeps, muchly appreciated !
Many kiss !!
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I see what you're saying.
Don't really want to do that if I can help it as there is a fade in the background which would be spoilt by having to have a large border.
Cheers though !
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Can you put up your layout image? or is it top secret
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We had the same problem when developing the website for my place of employment (
see here). You are never going to be able to stop people browsing with a maximized explorer window, so we gave our window a definite edge, and shadowed it over the background. I think it works quite well. It means that the centre bit can stay a fixed size, and you reduce the white space by filling it with what ever
Could look something like this, with a subtle pattern on the background to kill the white space...
![[Image: 1607411846_5bdd6c41e5_o.jpg]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2040/1607411846_5bdd6c41e5_o.jpg)
Just a suggestion, I won't be offended if you hate it
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Glad you like it
Don't ask me bout any technical stuff though - I just do pretty stuff, wouldn't be a ble to make a website to save myself
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Not sure exactly what you mean pureski but I'd just choose a resolution (I'd suggest 1024 x 76
and design your site to that size. If people use smaller resolutions they have stone age PC's and bigger resolutions aren't that common as a general rule so you should be good.
Basically I'd make the layout image in photoshop the right size to fit a 1024 x 768 resolution (there is a set size for this but I can't remember it, pirate'll know
) and then chop it up and export each image, then as you construct the page in dreamweaver, just make each image box the same size as each of your images so the page builds itself to the right size.
Does that make any sense?
Probably not!
Just let me know if you need any help with anything dude, email me or whatever
Wishing it was like the old days again
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Yeah, that's what I've done now but I can't work out how to drop shadow the basic image that is on top of it.
Also, when I'm turning things into hyperlinks, is it possible to have them any other colour than blue ?
