Struggling New WebDesigner

[om20]

I have an issue. This client wants his site proportioned to the page, no matter what screen it turns up on.

http://www.darkcandyclothing.com/


I'm having a bitch of a time trying to do that. Is that just unrealistic?

Also . he said the text was blurry on the links. Is he just delusional?

Thanks.
-Enrique

 

[chrishirst]

This client wants his site proportioned to the page

???

That makes no sense at all, unless by 'site' you mean layout and by 'page' you mean browser.


Failing that. Use percentages for widths.

 

[leroy30]

Hi om20.

I think you just need to start fresh! You might have a case of looking for a difficult solution for a simple problem.

Firstly if you are unsure or it is unclear about exactly what your client wants, go back to them and clarify.

Secondly; just looking at that home page I can see what they mean. On my screen there's a rectangular gradient in the middle of the screen which falls back to a blank white background. It looks like the page is too small for the screen.

Here's what you need to do...

1) Get rid of the table layout. Why is it there anyway?
2) Use this website (http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/) to generate a css gradient background for the BODY element. Also; set background-attachment to 'fixed'.
3) Generate a transparent .png image for the person and position it in front of the page
4) Either do the same as #3 with the text or embed the font if you can. The latter being the preferred option for SEO.

Easy peasy.

Good luck,

Le-roy

 

[Phreaddee]

yes start again.
tables is a no go. and what is this?

#con table tr td strong {     font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; } 
#con table tr td strong {     font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif, Impact; } 
#con table tr td strong {     font-family: Impact; } 
#con table tr td strong {     font-family: Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif; } 
#con table tr td strong {     font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; } 
#con table tr td strong {     font-family: Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif; } 
#con table tr td strong {     font-family: Lucida Console, Monaco, monospace; } 
#con table tr td strong {     font-family: "MS Serif", "New York", serif;     font-size: 22px; } 
#con table tr td strong a {     font-family: Haettenschweiler;     font-size: large; } 
#con table tr td strong {     font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif, Impact;     font-size: medium; }

???

totally redundant.

for your background, you want something like this?
http://buildinternet.com/project/supersized/core/3.2/core.html

for your links you'd want to use an ul

<ul>
<li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
<li><a href="stockists.html">Stockists</a></li>
</ul>

both the contact and about pages are disastrous, I would forget them entirely.

develop a style for the business the you can consistently utilise across all of the website. At the moment there is no defined direction with this.

Do you have any reference sites to look at, I think that would be of benefit to you.