Help Building a Website

Leisa

Leisa

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I have a lot to learn & I was hoping others would want to pick the gurus brains also...?

So I thought we might use this thread to post our queries about everything from meta tags to ... whatever.

MY First question is...how much space does one need to have small images w/titles on one page that Each link to their own page? And, maybe more importantly - how the heck do you do that???

Of course, it isn't pressing, really, but I do NOT like the way my practice-for-real website looks with all those big pics on one page. You have to really be a scroller to shop & I think it looks like carp. Then there's the issue of my crappy pics, but that's for another day. That won't change til I can optomize my (ahem) studio.

When I grow up, I want my site to look as clean as poshgirl's. yowza.

leisa
 
I agree.. poshgirl's site is fantastic!

I'm lazy... I use Front Page. It thumbnails the pics for me (I just right click on the image & select "Thumbnail"!) and I just save the finished pages to my website via Front Page's FTP extensions.

If you want to do it the HTML way, you'd need to make yourself a smaller version of each pic that you want to thumbnail. Then use the same code you'd use for a text link.. but instead of text inside it you'd put (img src="http:www.yourwebsite.com/imagename.jpg")

with the linked to page being the larger image.

So... something like this:

(a href="http://www.yourwebsite.com/prettypicture.jpg")(img src="http://www.yourwebsite.com/prettypicture_small.jpg")(/a)

using <> instead of (), of course.

I think that's right......
 
huh?

Thanks, Christine, but you lost me at the FTP extensions. :BAGUSE:

but how much space to I need to have in my website to host all those seperate pages? I guess what i wanna know is what would the "norm" be for a mid-size store? Like 50-100 items at any given time?

thanks, honey! OH! And YOUR Site is pretty damn fabulous, too, girlfriend!!! I just had another look at it today - I love that it's so clean & simple.
 
Add up all the space your images take, and all the space your html pages take, and you will need at least that much space (you can use windows explorer to see how big your files are).

Deb
 
learn yerself some HTML (it's not that hard.. promise!) and then get a real host. :licky:

Even with the fancy Front Page extensions that I use... to use FTP all you have to do is save the HTML file you're working on... and the upload the file onto your FTP. Sometimes I do it that way. I just drag the file from one folder & drop it into my open FTP window (Internet Explorer)
 
Sweetie - I know a bit of HTML. Tables, links, posting graphics, changing fonts, etc. I've always used HTML in all my auctions, and still use all of my own HTML on my website. I didn't do the background or tabs, but all the content is my HTML.

So...what other HTML do I need to learn? Other than the gazillion batrillion things I don't know..? ;)

Oh - & I will go with GoDaddy when I get toi the "real host" part. They've been very good to me so far.

xoxoxo
leisa
 
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