one more point

for the initial page
try to get it made, so it fit's all screens and resolutions, without scrolling
And account for the fact that many people have a lot of junk
eg : toolbars in their browser and some even have a double decked taskbar in windows

for a long time 1024/768 was the standard
now with widescreens, you see a lot of big screens, but they are usually wider then they are tall... such as 1440/900

At the moment , your page doesn't fit without scrolling on 1440/900
(single decked taskbar, firefox with only 1 extra toolbar)

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1220007807.jpg


You'de have to shave off about 100 pixels to get it right


i think these days, you are better off widening up , going horizontal, rather then stacking vertical

At least for the intro page, where you want oversight and wow factor
reading pages, that's another story, but that's not for initial intro page

There has always been more width to play with then height
Now with the widescreens monitors taking over, many pages now look off balance

The start top left, and leave spacing to the right no longer works too well

At the minimum, these days, you have to setup the page, so there is an automatic left and right margin control
So it's centered no matter what resolution is used

just playing around with what you have now, very crude example of what i mean

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1220008660.jpg

Thanks Stijn,

This is important stuff to me - I don't want a site that people have to scroll down or across to read. I can fix this by following your suggestions - and a wider rather than higher page set will work out fine when I make some changes. I thought I had accounted enough for all these things, but obviously not. I am not up with widescreen monitors yet - I like my old one just fine (probably cursed it now - it'll blow up soon!).

Also, a friend emailed me tonight and said he lost text at the bottom of the 2nd text box on the home page when he had the screen font set a one size larger than standard on his laptop.

I had set the site to the left as was usual practice as I read somewhere that netscape doesn't support centred pages...not sure if that is true, but I decided to err on the side of caution. I think I'll just centre it again.

I am playing with photo editing again - it's like slow torture for me at the moment but I am getting faster and better with both Photoshop and Fireworks. I just don't do enough of it (until now) to remember all the commands and such. Am still discovering the fast versus slow ways of doing things too... I can drive a whole host of computer programs, but I am not good with these two (yet).

Cheers and thanks again,

Lisa

btw, you don't always need photoshop
sure, you can do everything you want with it
but hardly anyone needs "everything"

most of the times, i do my basic pixel editing with paint shop pro
i only get out PS when i really need some fancy stuff done

Netscape?? sod it, it's IE and Firefox these days...

There's different ways of centering the whole thing
frames
tables with CSS
DIV layers...


frames are considered poor design, because they are complicated and not friendly to text readers for the visually impaired
Tables should work, pretty decent cross browser behaviour
DIV layers too, but tricky to get them right for all browsers



http://www.pactumweb.com/tutorials/center.htm

Nice site...

You get to live in Australia AND work with Porsches... I am so jealous!

Lisa...great job! You (almost) make me want to move to Oz...and get back into P-cars. Almost. ;)