I am a graphic designer so i'm not to familiar with the whole web design thing or coding. I used photoshop to design my website, sliced it up and used dreamweaver to code it. I know this is probably not the best method for designing as my website takes longer to load than most and seems to appear slightly different in every browser.

My website is: http://jonnyrowan.com

I have everything inside a frame because that is the only way I really know how. I like the main frame but i have the links in a frame as well which seems to be causing a problem for some users.

Surely there is another way around this? I would appreciate some help.

Thanks

hey jonny,

the site looks decent, and is how i basically started doing my sites.

people here will tell you not to use DW, but to code it by hand. I still used DW as it's easier for me.

these are my thoughts only!...

learn to use and harness the power of CSS, it will save you so much time and effort. You can download a plug in for Firefox that will let you view/edit other sites css code. That's how i learned it, just trial and error on other sites. This won't effect the live site, it'll simply show you the code and what changes.

also learn about fluid layouts, they're much more versitile. here are a couple i have used to learn/copy and paste!

http://www.searchenginefriendlylayou...liquid_layouts
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatuto...torial0916.htm


Look around this site! It's been an amazing and project/life saving resource for me.
There are some VERY talented people on here, and they're very helpful... as long as your nice to them!

Good luck!

Thanks very much for your help! I've bookmarked them websites so will check them out when I get home.

Jonny, there's nothing wrong with using DreamWeaver, but I am one of those people who recommends hand coding. I won't tell you that you have to code by hand to build a website, but I do think you get a better website that way.

As for learning the first step is html. It sounds like you already know at least some html. It's easy enough to learn the rest. A single book in a single weekend is enough. I'll give you a link in a moment.

The next step is css. html is for the structure of your site and css is for the presentation. The basics of css are also easy to learn. It can trip you up a little when you're trying to use css to completely layout a site, but even then it's not too hard.

A good place to learn both is W3Schools. They have intro tutorials on most everything relating to building a website that are easy to follow and quick to work through. You won't be a master after going through them, but you'll be considerably further along.

Again there's nothing wrong with using DreamWeaver, but it's good to learn the code too since DW won't necessarily give you the best code and there will be times where you will need to understand the code to make a fix.

Hi...

there are companies on the web that will slice and dice psd's to html... and they are well worth paying the money....epically if you do not know CSS/HTML. It will save you hours and hours of tinkering with the code.

google: psd 2 html

i agree with ozzo you should get an enquiry to find out how much it would cost to do it or i could do it.