Redesigning site: Need color/table help! 1

[TheHobbit]

I'm redesigning my site at:

http://www.freewebz.com/ccstudios/

and so far its going really good. But I had a suggestion that I should alternate colors in different places instead of having just one big color for a background. If someone could edit my code from that site and show me how I could possibly do this I would be grateful.
I tried making a border by nesting tables and it came out wrong...
I tried different bgcolors for the tables cells and they contrasted way to sharply...
Or does the site even need some different colors to differentiate sections?
Help welcome! Don't argue with an idiot, he will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

 

[Boomerang]

Hi,

It's verry hard to answer your question with an example code because there is less content in your page.

I would just suggest to combine with some colors from the image navbar.jpg like #CBCAF6 or #DCDCF8.

here are some other tips/thoughts:
1) use <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 to avoid unnecesarry horizontal scrolling in 800*600 screen.
2)allways specify image width and height like <img src=&quot;navbar.jpg&quot; height=&quot;35&quot; width=&quot;615&quot;>. The browser then reserve the specified space for the image and will continue with displaying the rest of the page (text) before the image is loaded. When you don't specify the dimensions the browser will wait till the image is loaded.
3)Make the background of the image transparent so you can use any background color without having to change the image.

Good luck,
Erik

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[cian]

You could try something simple like putting all your content in a narrow table (650-700px width). Set the table bgcolor to what you have and set the document bgcolor to white. Then put a nice vcoloured border on the table!
Something like that, worth a try!


E É

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[TheHobbit]

Boomerang: I fixed the cellspacing and cellpadding,
specified the image sizes,
and made all of my logos and stuff gifs, the navbar actually looks a lot better as a gif...

Cian: I couldn't get that to work and I just don't think anything would now but I have an idea for the future that I will try when its possible.
Thanks for the suggestions! Don't argue with an idiot, he will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.