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J-cob9000:
Wow, I never even think about margins and stuff.
Thanks for all the crit, I'll work on it.
Jens, I love you.


"smacks of beginners work" - Why do I giggle so much at this phrase?

ampersandwitch:
I was hamhandedly sucking up to Jens before it was popular.

J-cob9000:
Well.
All the cool kids are doing it.

Catfish_Man:
I have a weird tendency to try to improve any css I see. This is 55 lines instead of 73, and I think a little easier to work with, mostly due to using inheritance.

--- Code: ---body {
color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, times new roman;
font-size: 11px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
text-decoration: none;
margin: 0;
}

#header {
background-color: #660000;
font-size: 50px;
height: 91px;
border-bottom: 2px #FFFFFF solid;
}

#headerlinks {
background-color: #8e4343;
border: 1px #FFFFFF solid;
font-size: 11px;
position: absolute;
left: 100px;
top: 78px;
padding: 2px 4px;
letter-spacing: 4px;
}

#content {
background-color: #343434;
width: 99.9%;
height: 100%;
}

a:link, a:active, a:visited {
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}

#content a:hover {
color: #666666;
}

#header a {
font-size: 15px;
}

.content {
padding: 5px;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

--- End code ---

dennis:
Frankly, not bad for someone who isn't old enough to officially get a job. You could probably get paid designing blog templates and hobby sites for your peers, but the days of clueless companies hiring kids to design/build their websites are long gone.

I'm not a designer, but I do web development for a living. I get handed a finished design and implement it. The worst designs are made by print designers. They don't know the medium. My advice is to concentrate on learning how to design for the web. Form follows function.

Learn web standards and best practices. Design for XHTML 1.0. Learn how to modify Wordpress, Drupal, and Myspace templates. Learn the quirks and bugs of Internet Explorers 6, 7 and 8. Remember that the only font/typeface choice you have is serif or sans-serif. Learn how to use color profiles. Learn wireframing and design grids.

It sounds like a lot, but it's all interrelated. If I had to boil it down, remember that as a designer, someone, maybe you, will have to actually build your design, so if you design with that in mind, you will waste less time compromising the build or design later on.

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