help with site design

[eagles wing]

I opened a site a couple of weeks ago. I was able to set up my banner, slideshow using my bio, and navigation bar. The navigation bar has "about me", "services and pricing", "contact me" in addition to "gallery", and "home". Homepage looks good, galleries good, now I need to dress up the other pages. All I have now is the plain type in the other pages (gallery w/o picture, just caption.) I am new to this and I could use a lot of help. I am also new to posting to forums.
Gary

[J Allen]

There's a lot you can do with these pages, for example add this to your CSS box, it will spice up your 'About Me' page:






/*====About-Me-Page====*/
.gallery_8454318 #breadCrumbTrail,
.gallery_8454318 .play_slideshow,
.gallery_8454318 #stylebar,
.gallery_8454318 #albumNav_top,
.gallery_8454318 #albumNav_bottom,
.gallery_8454318 .nophotos h3,
.gallery_8454318 .pageNav
{display:none;}
.gallery_8454318 .journal_entry
{border:none;}

.gallery_8454318 #albumDescription
{font-size: 150%;
text-align:center;
color:maroon;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;}





If you like the way it looked, you could make all your info pages similar.


You could also make your "about me" page in PS..example here (http://www.joerallen.com/gallery/4889354_FSkbF)

The sky is the limit, just holler for help :ear

[denisegoldberg]

You could also make your "about me" page in PS..example here (http://www.joerallen.com/gallery/4889354_FSkbF)

Joe's photoshop example is very readable, but I've seen many other photoshopped pages that were not.

For a text only page I highly recommend that you format the text on smug and do not use photoshop. If you format the text here and you happen to choose a font size that doesn't work for your viewer, they can always use the browser to increase (or decrease) the font size. They won't have that option if you choose to use photoshop.

--- Denise

[eagles wing]

Thanks for your response. I spent this morning going over Steve Allen's tutorial on HTML only pages. I tried and succeded with my Services and Pricing page, appling the code and changing the gallery information. My question now is how do I change the background color. I have the same color as is on the tutorial. I would like to change it to the same color as the rest of my site, which is a medium grey. my site is: www.garyshawphotography.com (http://www.garyshawphotography.com)

[denisegoldberg]

Thanks for your response. I spent this morning going over Steve Allen's tutorial on HTML only pages. I tried and succeded with my Services and Pricing page, appling the code and changing the gallery information. My question now is how do I change the background color. I have the same color as is on the tutorial. I would like to change it to the same color as the rest of my site, which is a medium grey.
This will change the color of the box on your services and pricing page, but once you apply this the text will be very difficult to read. Of course the text on the rest of your site is very difficult to read too - black type on dark gray is not good.

.gallery_8541338 #albumDescription {
background-color: #5C5C5C;
}

--- Denise

[eagles wing]

Thanks for the advise. That color is starting to grow on me. I think I'll leave it alone at least for the time being.