Dreamweaver Beginner

[lylo]

Woo, my first post in this section of the forums

In September I begun a University course that relates to digital media today, and as well as theoretical studying into all sides of it, it allows for practical involvement in many areas too. One of those areas that I've had interest in from the start, is web design, and throughout the course, or up to now at least, this has been taught through learning Dreamweaver.

It's the end of my first term, and over Christmas, I've been set a project to design a website using what we've learnt so far in Dreamweaver (which admittedly isn't a great deal). The aim of the website is to be an online portfolio of all of the work we will do on the course over the next 3 years, as well as being somewhere to showcase older work (In particular, I will be using this site to show off my audio work done on a BTEC course in the last 2 years). The site itself is going to be a learning project, and over time it is expected that visually the site will improve as we learn progressively, a good example will be the inclusion of Flash which we're to begin studying in the new year. The website will actually be going live as well from my tutor's webspace, I'll actually be able to update this as I please, and I really intend to make this into something I have a passion for.

So for now, it can be fairly basic, but as long as the content there, thats all that matters. I don't want this though, I do want to push myself, but I'd like to get as much help as possible from real people who will know what they're doing (Hopefully thats you guys lol)

I have had a couple of other ideas that I will present to you if you wish, but for now, I'll let you look at the rough up of how my site is going to look. It would mean so much to me if any of you experienced designers could take a look at this, and add your input as to how/where I could go with it. It will be very basic but as I said, I'm learning this myself, and this is completely from the ground up in more ways than one hehe.

EDIT: Well I've gone and made my first mistake lol, I assumed I'd be able to attach files here but obviously I can't. I don't know if thats restrictions on certain parts of the forum or what but never mind, I'll show you a shot of what I have right now.

Ignore the blahblah crap heh, I wanted some filler text in there to see how it would all come out on a browser, so far I'm happy with that, my only main nag is the blank space in the top left of the page above my navigation links. I was advised on filling that with some kind of logo but I'm stumped as to what I can put in there. So far its all simple tables, with the links being a nested table centred in a bigger column, so I'm left with that annoying space at the top and bottom.

BTW, part of my course involves learning Photoshop and Fireworks, so if anyone has any suggestions as to what I can do, if you were to explain them I would happily have a try at recreating them in either of those programmes.

Edited December 20, 2005 by lylo

[harunaksoy]

Heh, i had to do the same here's mine http://145.37.208.96/202472 I made the site in photoshop, sliced it and saved it for web, then completed it in Dreamweaver.

Maybe you can put a picture of yourself in that blank space, or download a brush from deviantart.com with a nice logo and put it there.

[lylo]

Urgh, I kinda left this thread to die, my bad

Well I went away... recently lol, I'm back at Uni and so I've gotten back onto the project. After a good bit of work, I've made something of an improvement over my original idea.

The index1.htm file in this post is the old idea, it's very monotonous and way too plain, so I've gone away, knocked up a colour scheme similar to X-Fire's, come up with some good looking nested tables with borders and the result is in the 'index.htm' file

That's the final design I'm going to be going with for my site for now, and with the day I intend to begin the building on it.

index1.htm

index.htm

What I would like to know, is if it is possible to add some kind of smoothing to those inner borders, the dark grey ones. While I'm happy with how it looks like, I wish the corners on those grey borders were rounded off to give a smoother look to the page. How could I go about doing something like that if it was possible? Actually... looking at it, that would look nice on all of the boxes

Edited January 14, 2006 by lylo