So I'm making a website.

[StrainedEyes]

I decided to make a website for my art, instead of hosting it on other sites. Makes it look more professional.

I pretty much know the bare bare minimum to making a website. I know how to do slices in Photoshop, then I move it to Dream Weaver and tell it what the slices link to and then put it up. I don't really know how to do much else.

I bought the domain from Yahoo! Small Business, and that's my server also.

Can anyone tell me the kind of things I should be aware of? Or the things I should watch out for? Or any tips?

Any hiccups or problems to owning a website that non-website owners aren't aware of?

Anything would be useful.

Anyway, here it is so far. As of the time I'm typing this, only the Logo page, the Main page, and the Illustrations page exist, so that's all that can be clicked. By the end of today you'll be able to click on each page and picture and get a close up and a description.

www.jgillustration.com

 

[Malice]

Actually looks quite nice.
I am willing to help via this thread

 

[StrainedEyes]

Actually looks quite nice.
I am willing to help via this thread

Thank you.
On my Mac it looks fine. But on my girlfriend's PC the right side of the logo in the background of the main page isn't straight, it kind of juts out where the slices are. Is it doing that on your screen?

 

[Neto Magnus]

I used to have a site on yahoo small business too. Just be careful with he monthly billing. They overcharge depending on traffic to your site and they dont tell you.

Yea on my PC the bg logo is cut up all over the place. I don't know how to fix that on Dreamweaver but I used yahoo page builder and it was quite easy.

Also, I really dig your Cujo posters.

 

[black_dust]

Looking good so far!

some problems i use to have is when i built it in dreamweaver it would look fine on IE but as soon as you look at it on firefox some bits have moved slightly

 

[StrainedEyes]

I'll eventually have to try and figure out the PC issue..

The Illustration section is all finished.

 

[Malice]

That is the pain of cross browsers and OS development for websites.
Its tough, not much else to tell you.

Learn more html and that will really help.

 

[Omega Wizard]

Or get past all that nub technology, flash ftw.

 

[StrainedEyes]

Ok, I found a coding forum and asked about the distortion. They told me to put

<style type="text/css">
a img { border: 0; }
</style>

into the coding after the title line, and it worked... I have absolutely no idea what it means or what it did, but it no longer distorts on other browsers or OSs.