Need help on a couple of questions on a "work in progress" site.

[RSVEcosse]

Hi,

Got a couple of questions, niggly things really.

I'm currently working on a website hosting for a guy to promote his holiday home in the Algarve.

The actual domain has not propagated yet ( only purchased it last night ) so until then it's up here at www.sandy-shores.co.uk

So - here are my niggly wee questions if anyone can assist.

1. I've made the "Contact" picture on the left lower side of the pages a "mailto:" but upon hovering over it with your mouse pointer, its not appearing to pick this up and be "clickable". Any ideas why?.

2. I was thinking of making the background of the web site hosting a slightly different shade of white, but when I change the background in the style sheet, it changes the whole background colour right throughout the web site hosting pages. Is there any way to just change the white parts on the left and right of the screen, outwith the main body of the pages?.

3. I know it's work in progress and has still a lot of content to go in, but I ran it through the W3C Validator and it came up with a few errors.

I altered some of the code and fixed most of them, but now when I run it back through the Validator its throwing up errors which I believe are related to the Flash banner on the first/index page. Cant work out how to fix them, any assistance appreciated.

The Validator is also throwing a wobbly regarding the specified doctype, but I think I know how to fix that, am about to go and try that just now.

Any feedback on the above appreciated.

I've also got another question on how best to implement an "availability" calendar on one of the pages that can be updated regularly but I'll start a seperate thread on that as I reckon it could well all get a bit complex.

Thanks in advance for any assistance and replies.

[RSVEcosse]

Solved problem #1 : Was a wee mistake in my part...!!!.

Still stumped with the other issues though.

Aren't the forums slow to load up tonight?. Or is it just me?.

[DPS Computing]

Originally Posted by RSVEcosse

Hi,

Got a couple of questions, niggly things really.

I'm currently working on a website hosting for a guy to promote his holiday home in the Algarve.

The actual domain has not propagated yet ( only purchased it last night ) so until then it's up here at www.sandy-shores.co.uk

So - here are my niggly wee questions if anyone can assist.

1. I've made the "Contact" picture on the left lower side of the pages a "mailto:" but upon hovering over it with your mouse pointer, its not appearing to pick this up and be "clickable". Any ideas why?.

2. I was thinking of making the background of the web site hosting a slightly different shade of white, but when I change the background in the style sheet, it changes the whole background colour right throughout the web site hosting pages. Is there any way to just change the white parts on the left and right of the screen, outwith the main body of the pages?.

3. I know it's work in progress and has still a lot of content to go in, but I ran it through the W3C Validator and it came up with a few errors.

I altered some of the code and fixed most of them, but now when I run it back through the Validator its throwing up errors which I believe are related to the Flash banner on the first/index page. Cant work out how to fix them, any assistance appreciated.

The Validator is also throwing a wobbly regarding the specified doctype, but I think I know how to fix that, am about to go and try that just now.

Any feedback on the above appreciated.

I've also got another question on how best to implement an "availability" calendar on one of the pages that can be updated regularly but I'll start a seperate thread on that as I reckon it could well all get a bit complex.

Thanks in advance for any assistance and replies.

2: Only if the sides are seperate layers / divs - otherwise any changes to the main background will change all over the page.

3: W3C and flash tags don't normally get on - i will have a look more closely but if you get it to work seemlessly with no errors it is a miracle! And definitely involving calendar software on your website hosting you will get errors no doubt about it. W3C validation is good - but not as good as having a good, interactive website hosting. Validate if you can, but don't compromise your web site hosting in doing so.

If you need any more help then feel free to reply again .

[paul]

Originally Posted by RSVEcosse

Solved problem #1 : Was a wee mistake in my part...!!!.

Still stumped with the other issues though.

Aren't the forums slow to load up tonight?. Or is it just me?.

Sound good you get it solved, the forums loading just fine here.

[DavidAllen]

For #2:
try using this css -
body {background-color: #f00;}
body table {background-color:#fff;}

gives you a lovely red border - change according to taste

[RSVEcosse]

Thanks David, I'll give that a try and see what happens.

Here's the next issue I have.

At the bottom of some of the pages, I've got an awful lot of "white space" with nothing in it until you scroll down to the bottom of the page.

On some pages, I will need the additional space once all the content is implemented in there but on other pages, I would rather there was not such a lot of space left over at the bottom of the page.

Can someone have a look at my source code and advise me if it's possible to get rid of the "white space" at the bottom of my pages?. I think it's to do with the tables and cells layout, I can't find a way to get rid of the superfluous tables and cells at the bottom of some of the pages.

I can copy and paste my CSS code if that helps, but you can view my source code by looking at the site.

It's still uploaded to my spare domain just now at www.sandy-shores.co.uk as I'm still waiting for the actual domain the website hosting will be going on to propagate.

[DavidAllen]

I'd have a look at your table structure - that would appear to be the culprit. These days it is considered better not to use tables for layout - instead use div and css.

[Rock]

I find a lot of white space on the right side & at the footer of the home page. This makes the web site hosting a bit more scrollable on my 19" too.
The web site hosting will look nice if the main content is aligned to the center of the page. And yes, CSS is anytime better than tables Nice work !!!