Website help, i'm going crazy

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Well, this has been of of the most annoying experiences i've been through so far. Got a website for an extremely good price due to connections. My website

First off, what fairly advanced software would you recommend? (i'm a very, very quick learner) ((if i can pay attention long enough)) I'm sick of microsoft front page just because it plain and simple pisses me off.

What i'm trying to do:
I want the image (like the one i have temporarily up on the site now) to be centered, with a full black background. My dad "resized" (friggen butchered the quality) the picture. to 800X600, but i use 1280X960, how can i set my site to fit right on any resolution like gtp planet or any other good site does?
Is flash worth learning to make the website with? and if theres any good tutorials can someone please direct me?
 
  • Make your resolution the same as the resolution you want your site to be veiwed in.
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver MX is worth buying it's the best web-devoloping software I can think of.
  • First off, I'd suggest you learn quite a bit of HTML coding before Flash.

:).
 
Whoo finally some help thank you!!

I understand what your saying about the resoultion thing, but in flash mx there is an option in publish settings that lets me choose percent instead of pixels. The default is 100 X 100 and it seems to work, but it screws up the aspect ratio so the pictures are all squished, any way to fix this?

So far the site is made entirely with flash mx and actionscript, the only problems I've had are the resolution problems, what are the advantages of learning html if i'm not having any problems with acitonscript?

Also, this forum doesnt seem to be too active, and since I guess i'm kind of thickheaded am I just wasting my time here? Would I be better off posting my problems in some macromedia forum?

Any help is greatly appreciated

EDIT: My friend said that I have to code the HTML to percents to keep the aspect ratio at like 1.33 or w/e it is. maybe i do need to know this stuff:(
 
Nah, we've got some awesome web designer's here ( Sage, Shannon, and more..) I'm not very knowledgable in Flash. Someone like Shannon, may be able to help you out. 👍
 
If you want the image horizontally centered, than that's no problem:
Code: 
<div align="center">[color=red]<img src="[b]pathtoimagehere[/b]" />[/color]</div>

How ever, if you want the image centered smack bang in the center, that's when things get difficult. I take it you don't know CSS...

In the head section of your HTML, paste the following:
Code: 
<style type="text/css">
div#center {
	position: absolute;
	width: 800px;
	height: 600px;
	left: 50%;
	top: 50%;
	margin-left: -400px;
	margin-top: -300px;
	}
</style>

And then the following where you want your image to appear:
Code: 
<div id="center">[color=red]<img src="[b]pathtoimagehere[/b]" />[/color]</div>

As for the black background, I'm guessing you want the entire page to have a black BG. In which case you can just edit the above style tags like so:

Code: 
<style type="text/css">[color=red]
body {
	background: #000;
	}
[/color]

div#center {
	position: absolute;
	width: 800px;
	height: 600px;
	left: 50%;
	top: 50%;
	margin-left: -400px;
	margin-top: -300px;
	}
</style>

Is flash worth learning to make the website with? and if theres any good tutorials can someone please direct me?
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No, it isn't. Flash is the scum of web design. It should be used for animations and animations only.
 

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