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Brian Jones
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I am an aspiring web and graphic designer still in my self taught studies. I love everything creative and hope to start freelancing summer 2012.
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I have never heard of that before. Do you have a link to your site so we can look at your code?

Did you check under Help in the toolbar? I use DW too as it is part of my Creative Suite and have never come across what you are experiencing. You may have an unclosed div / class in your mark up or forgot to add a bracket or semi colon in your CSS. Are you hand coding (I would recommend hand code over DW code)? Take your time and progress slowly - we will always be learning in this field :)

by Brian Jones 1 year ago
Check out Slice that PSD on Net Tuts or PSD tuts. Honestly - slicing seems to be the old school way. Your best bet is to crop the image and paste it onto a new document and save as a GIF or PNG.

Or Jpeg - all depending on what the image is...If it needs to be transparent - save as a PNG 24 or GIF.

by Brian Jones 1 year ago
I do not understand completely what you are inquiring on? Are you wanting to soley do Graphic Design or are you wanting to learn web design? If you are wanting to soley do graphic design, stick with your niche and build upon it. However you have some experience with CSS, Dreamweaver and Flash, so I assume you want to do web design also. Where are you stuck and what do wish to accomplish? If you are wanting to learn web design, you will also want to understand (x)HTML as well. I use Dreamweaver because it is part of my Creative Suite - but I hand code. If you are using Dreamweaver to help you build layouts, I would not count on DW to soley design your layout, I would recommend learning how code works and hand code your designs. Please be more specific on your inquiry and I will try and lead you in the right direction :)

You're welcome

by Brian Jones 1 year ago
I do not understand completely what you are inquiring on? Are you wanting to soley do Graphic Design or are you wanting to learn web design? If you are wanting to soley do graphic design, stick with your niche and build upon it. However you have some experience with CSS, Dreamweaver and Flash, so I assume you want to do web design also. Where are you stuck and what do wish to accomplish? If you are wanting to learn web design, you will also want to understand (x)HTML as well. I use Dreamweaver because it is part of my Creative Suite - but I hand code. If you are using Dreamweaver to help you build layouts, I would not count on DW to soley design your layout, I would recommend learning how code works and hand code your designs. Please be more specific on your inquiry and I will try and lead you in the right direction :)

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by Brian Jones 1 year ago
I do not understand completely what you are inquiring on? Are you wanting to soley do Graphic Design or are you wanting to learn web design? If you are wanting to soley do graphic design, stick with your niche and build upon it. However you have some experience with CSS, Dreamweaver and Flash, so I assume you want to do web design also. Where are you stuck and what do wish to accomplish? If you are wanting to learn web design, you will also want to understand (x)HTML as well. I use Dreamweaver because it is part of my Creative Suite - but I hand code. If you are using Dreamweaver to help you build layouts, I would not count on DW to soley design your layout, I would recommend learning how code works and hand code your designs. Please be more specific on your inquiry and I will try and lead you in the right direction :)

That is completely up to you. If you enjoy both web and graphic design - I would recommend studying both and getting into both fields. Web design is currently a much stronger medium right now as opposed to Graphic Design. By that I mean, there is a stronger demand for web design than Graphic Design right now. I am studying for both web design and graphic design. The only way to master the programs and become efficient is to practice, practice and practice some more. With your background of color corrections and retouching as well as digital painting, your on your way to becoming a graphic designer. With web design, you will need to add to your photoshop experience by knowing photo manipulation. You will also want to learn Illustrator as if you will be doing web design, you will want to know this program for at the very least to create logos. Also, you will need to have a strong skill set of coding (x)Html and CSS should get you started. You will then want to understand how different browsers render your code, learn javascript and or jQuery as well as SEO. You do not have to go to school for either one of these career fields (I am self taught). I have provided for you some links below on getting started. Best of luck to you and if you have any questions, feel free to ask and I will try my best to help you.

by Brian Jones 1 year ago
I am still a newbie - but I will take a look at your code and site to see if I can help. Regarding the PNG issue - a good fix for this the the DD Belated PNG fix by Drew Diller - I have included the link below: www.dillerdesign.com/experiment/DD_belatedPNG/

It did not take the comment on the PNG fix. I will email you through the email on your site.

by Brian Jones 1 year ago
I am still a newbie - but I will take a look at your code and site to see if I can help. Regarding the PNG issue - a good fix for this the the DD Belated PNG fix by Drew Diller - I have included the link below: www.dillerdesign.com/experiment/DD_belatedPNG/

You're welcome. Something is causing your links to jump down (apparently). This seems to possibly be from not enough width to contain the link and the image icon (.left parent container is set to 250px, the link and the icon total 258px.) Usually this type of issue is caused by the Double Margin Bug (adding a margin in the same direction as a float) - but I do not see that you added a margin to the float so this is baffling. I will continue to look over it to see if I can figure it out. Your page even passed validation so this is strange. I do have one recommendation. I would recommend you align the left column, right content and footer content with your Main navigation. Currently it is not aligned and by doing this - it will give unity and a strong alignment to the page. Also - I see you still have the PNG issue. When using the Delated PNG fix - add it to your Head ( I add it right below the Title) and refer to the ID or Class of the image. Below is a view for you on what I used on one of my sites for reference:

by Brian Jones 1 year ago
I am still a newbie - but I will take a look at your code and site to see if I can help. Regarding the PNG issue - a good fix for this the the DD Belated PNG fix by Drew Diller - I have included the link below: www.dillerdesign.com/experiment/DD_belatedPNG/

After looking over this again - I noticed you have on your .nav class has a width of 100%. I do not think this is necessary as the width is set in your nav container. For some reason your nav li are stretching the entire width of the nav container. This is usually caused by not specifying a width on floated elements. Regarding your other dropped elements - I notice your #lftcont div is set for 304 px - however your .lhd class is 306px (226 width plus your 80px of padding). This appears to be knocking your other elements down....

by Brian Jones 1 year ago
I am still a newbie - but I will take a look at your code and site to see if I can help. Regarding the PNG issue - a good fix for this the the DD Belated PNG fix by Drew Diller - I have included the link below: www.dillerdesign.com/experiment/DD_belatedPNG/

That is strange. I see you do not have display: Block on your nav li Maybe try changing CSS to this? .nav li { float: Left; display: Block .nav li a { float: Left; display: Inline ** Nice site

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