HTML Help

noamkos · Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 2

Hi guys,

Thanks a lot for this website! I'm so happy I found it because I'm trying to create a new website and I struggle with some small things that annoy me so much :) I'm trying to use a sliding menu I found in a tutorial but I still have some problems.

my website is www.noteaspoons.com/beta/index.html

I have 2 main problems:

1) When the "home" and "contact us" are clicked, they appear in blue / black and I'd want them to stay white. I tried making new styles but didn't work :(

2) I put the menu in a separate layer to be able to change it once for all pages, but now it means the new window appears only in the layer!!... not very practical :)

Thanks in advance if anyone can help :)

Cheers,

Noam

Daler · Joined: 23 May 2008 Posts: 53

The website looks fairly good, but I would suggest a couple of things:

1) Your page needs a title, at the moment it's just "untitled document". You can do this by manually editing the code:
Code: <title>Untitled Document</title>

2) You were right about your bar. It needs a plugin which my version of Firefox can't seem to find. This needs changing. Not quite sure how you could go about it though.

By the way, was this coded by you, or did you use an editor?

noamkos · Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 2

thanks :)

ok, I've added the title as you suggested and got rid of the menu I found. Instead now I've realized there is an inbuilt menu in Dreamweaver which is great... but I still have the 2nd problem: when clicking on links, only the layer changes :(

I do the coding I can do and the inbuilt stuff of dreamweaver as my friends said it's the best one to use and I'm on mac so limited by programs :)

if u have any idea for this 2nd problem, it would be great to know :)

thanks

sticks464 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 1283

You have a lot of coding errors or misuse of code and css, only one of which is causing the menu problem.
Get rid of the <embed>, that's what is causing the problem when clicking links. If you want a menu that can be edited and then will update all pages...use ssi (server side includes).

IE is going into quirks mode because of the title and blank lines before the doctype. The doctype declaration must be the first entry.

You should use <blockquote> and <cite> for your quoted text instead of .

Assign classes to your tags and put the styles on your stylesheet instead of using inline styles. (ie. all the tags with align="center" can have the same class with text-align:center. Same goes for tags aligned right).

Don't use the non-breaking space ( ) for moving text, use the span tag and give it css of text-align right.
Code: 
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css
.bold {font-weight:bold;}
.right {text-align:right;}

Remove the closing </style> tag at the end of the page before the closing </body> tag.

Post up what you are trying to do with the menu and you will get help.