My First CSS Site

Hi everyone,
I have created my first CSS based page and was wondering if people could take a look at it and let me know if there are any "Best Practices" I should be aware of that will help streamline my code.
The link is at http://jjcstudios.com/woof_wallet2/
Also, on the WinXP in IE the following is happening and I am not sure why. Any advice would be appreciated:
1. Header "Click Here To Purchase" is shifting down
2. Footer overlaps swf
Thanks,
John

I muted your site so I did not have to worry about the barking dog. Run your page through the HTML and CSS validators. Good number of errors in there:
http://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Your footer problem is easy, get rid of the extra HTML, literally. You don't need HTML and body tags around your footer (see below for your code).

<div id="footer">
    
    <p>
      <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body id="footerBody">
<div class="footernav"><a href="#" >Home Page</a> | <a href="#" >Blog/Whats New</a> | <a href="#" >Product Details</a> | <a href="#" >How Woof Wallet Works</a> | <a href="#" >About Us</a> | <a href="#" > Contact Us</a> | <a href="#" >Online Store</a><br />
</div>
<p> </p>
<img src="images/secure90x72.jpg" alt="authorizeNet" width="55" height="44" class="footerSpacer" /><img src="images/find_us_on_facebook_badge.jpg" alt="facebook" width="98" height="44" />
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> it gone or hidden?
>
> 2. When I hightlight text that I'd like a css style
applied to, in older
> versions of DW one simply clicked on the style name in
the CSS panel. Now
> when
> I click on the style name, nothing happens. I have to
right-click to
> 'Apply
> Style'. Am I doing it wrong? Is there a new way to apply
CSS?
>
> 3. in the local Files panel, when I double click on a
file to open it, the
> site starts to connect to the remote server. Driving me
nuts. Not OK.
>
> 4. When the site starts to connect to the remote server,
it gives me this
> message:
> "this site has been set up for use by Macromedia
Contibute users. Do you
> want
> Dreamweaver to enable all required site settings for
compatibiltiy with
> Contribute sites?".
> (A) This site has not been set up for use by Contribute
YET (other sites
> have,
> I guess, but pre-DW 8), and (B) I already said "yes"
once. I said "no"
> another
> time. I'm afraid to deselect "don't show this message
again" because I
> don't
> know what's happening when I click yes or no. I don't
really understadn
> what
> this means!
>
> 5. And finally, files now take FOREVER to upload! NOT
OK. This is the
> worst
> offender... Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you generously in advance for any insight into my
frustrations. I'm
> back
> to using DW MX for now.
>

First web site

hi all, have been working on my first site please have a look and tell me what you think http://web.mac.com/gareth.barlow/iWeb/mac%20time/Home.html
it's not complete but just looking for some views on it, are there too many pages and are the colors ok, i tried to make each page look different, is this a good idea or should you stick with the same idea on all pages?
2 GHz Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.9) iPhone(i wish)

The names of your pages contain "%20", e.g.
http://web.mac.com/gareth.barlow/iWeb/mac%20time/imovie.html
As iWeb's Help viewer says: Browsers convert spaces in site names to "%20." To avoid these symbols, use an underscore, hyphen, or some other character instead of a space. Also avoid non-Roman characters; many get converted to numbers when you publish.
Also at the above page, "imovie" should be "iMovie", "isight" should be "iSight". There may be more typos like that. Take a look at Apple's website to see how they capitalize their products.
On a general note, a teacher of marketing & multimedia presentation design, Garr Reynolds says at his site: "Design is a big, big deal. We all have a responsibility to understand its potential and its power. You do not need to be a designer — but you do need to become more design sensitive or 'design mindful'."
In particular, according to another experienced designer: "Color should be used in the same way that type size is used: to emphasize importance, not decorate a page."
Reynolds' page about why design matters is worth reading...
http://www.garrreynolds.com/Design/whydesign.html
Another interesting essay can be found by clicking on "Design basics" at the same page.

First eCommerce site - Business Catalyst or Third Party extension?

Hi all,
I'm just starting out in freelance web design and I have a thorough knowledge of HTML and CSS and have built numerous sites using dreamweaver previously. I now have a full CC package (and am loving it I must say), but am far more a designer than a developer and thus my knowledge of PHP CF etc. are at the very least limited. I now have a client who is interested in an ecommerce site and I just wondered what approach people would suggest.
From my reading I can see that third party extensions such as cartweaver often rely on PHP or CF and since my knowledge of them is minimal, I had guessed that BC would be the way to go, but if anybody could give me any reasons as to why I could be right or wrong with this, it would be greatly appreciated!

Unless you're familiar with building a CMS, MySql databases, PHP connections, web server security and PCI compliance, an e-commerce site is best left in the hands of experienced professionals. BC is one option to consider if you intend to use it to build & host the site. BC Modules won't work on other servers.
There are other 3rd party shopping carts services you could use like PayPal and ASecureCart Shopping Cart. A secure, PCI Compliant shopping cart..
Nancy O.

Old non-CSS site. Problems using CSS now.

I have a site that was built with GoLive years ago. It has
TONS of e-commerce form/store stuff on most of the pages. I quit GL
a few years ago and moved all my sites over to DW CS3. It wasn't
super smooth, but I eventually got it setup as a DW site and went
on with it.
Then CSS came in, and I learned how to build sites with it.
My problem is that this old site (www.webriggingsupply.com) is a
mess of inconsistency with fonts, font sizes, etc. On a page,
within one table of store data, there might be 2 different fonts,
and 3 sizes, when all should be the same font/size.
Due to the sheer number of pages and tables, there is simply
no way I can start over with a new site.
I tried to use CSS to style the new site, but the old
attributes are still in place.
Any suggestions? I could copy/paste a page into a new site,
but how do I strip out all the old font formatting? I tried it, and
it comes in the new site just like the old site? I'm
stuck!!!

To remote deprecated code and other tags from legacy sites, I
use a handy
little extension called Tag Stripper 2.1 which runs from the
Command menu in
DW.
It quickly removes unwanted <tables>, <fonts> and
other tags in one pass...
You can download it here (scroll down; it's 3rd from the
bottom):
http://www.feedage.com/feeds/1633172/massimo-foti--dreamweaver-goodies
--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com
"synterx" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gdahng$lq5$[email protected]..
> I have a site that was built with GoLive years ago. It
has TONS of
e-commerce
> form/store stuff on most of the pages. I quit GL a few
years ago and moved
all
> my sites over to DW CS3. It wasn't super smooth, but I
eventually got it
setup
> as a DW site and went on with it.
>
> Then CSS came in, and I learned how to build sites with
it. My problem is
that
> this old site (www.webriggingsupply.com) is a mess of
inconsistency with
fonts,
> font sizes, etc. On a page, within one table of store
data, there might be
2
> different fonts, and 3 sizes, when all should be the
same font/size.
>
> Due to the sheer number of pages and tables, there is
simply no way I can
> start over with a new site.
>
> I tried to use CSS to style the new site, but the old
attributes are
still in
> place.
>
> Any suggestions? I could copy/paste a page into a new
site, but how do I
strip
> out all the old font formatting? I tried it, and it
comes in the new site
just
> like the old site? I'm stuck!!!
>

Trying to edit css site

im trying to get a hang of working with a css website
(www.investix.co.uk) on the homepage there is a big white gap on
the right side. for some reason I cannot access this portion via
dreamweaver. I have an an automated gif banner that i'd love to
insert there but I do not know how to edit the css style so I could
insert the banner.
if someone is willing to help us out with making changes on
this css website then we'd gladly reward with them a fee = ).
you can email me directly @ [email protected]

Maneet Puri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw the problem you are referring to on your website,
I can ask my designers
> to resolve it. But they will need the access to the
source of the page to be
> able to do this. You can send me the FTP details at
[email protected] and
> I can ask my designers to check and comment on how much
time they will take to
> resolve it.
Anyone can save the page locally, including CSS and any JS,
you don't
need FTP details to do that.
The banner needs to go in the element with the class called
.main-subcontent
Look in the code for this comment  and 
The code in-between those comments is the section you are
after.
Before making any changes/additions make a backup first.
Dooza
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