Need some web site help....

Torx

Ok...so I am designing a web site to advertise some of the sig work that I do...along with avatars and other stuff that I design. Its going to be a mixture of MMO news/ game info and art work.

My problem isnt making the actuall page but turning it INTO a active web site..... I know tons about photoshop but little about the transformation from .psd to a web usable format....

Here is what I have so far....

Web Site Design

p.s. ill change my sig eventually Kunou lol....

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MMORPG's I Have Played:
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Everquest - 61 Gnome Warrior
FFXI - 56 Taru Warrior
Asheron's Call 2
Lineage 2 - 38 Orc Monk
Saga of Ryzom

Emilin

In order to transfor a new Photoshop image from a .PSD file to a .gif or .jpeg, you go to Save As, and pull down the menu. Look for either .gif or .jpeg formats.
Then you get a buncha popups, all you have to do it click OK on each one because photoshop already set the proper settings for you image type.

That's with PS7, I'm pretty sure CS is same.

As for promoting your website, just go to designing forums.. actualy any forums will do.. Stick a siggy, and link it to your site, and post often. Ofcourse you may even mess with Search Engine submissions and if you got some dinnero to spare, you can alway order some advertising.

Another method that works is link/banner exchange. Or a button. See an example on www.united-clans.net.
Look to the Links and Supporters block. Most of those are actualy shared advertising.

Hope that helps.

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.:::The Avengean Guard:::. (TAG)

eBay Gone Completely Wrong

Torx

nono, i know how to turn it into a different format...what i am wanting to know is how do you make a simple jpeg or image file into a working web site...... HTML??? how....

---------------------------Desolation Guild WebSite-----------------------------

MMORPG's I Have Played:
__________________________
Everquest - 61 Gnome Warrior
FFXI - 56 Taru Warrior
Asheron's Call 2
Lineage 2 - 38 Orc Monk
Saga of Ryzom

Worf

Your test web site page needs better contrast.

White border with a black inset is a bit harsh.

Look at the color scheme on this site... It uses a better color scheme.

Check out this web page too:
http://avault.com/

Do you have access to a programs like Macromedia's "Dreamweaver" or Visual Studio .Net's "ASP.Net" stuff?

Please make sure that you test your web pages with multiple internet browsers to insure that the same code will work for them all.

Test any pages that I work on with these to insure my web pages work properly: (Alphabetical Order ONLY)

- FireFox
- Microsoft's Internet Explorer (MSIE)
- Mozilla
- Netscape 7.x
- Opera

If the page doesn't work will the browsers listed then your web pages don't work properly.

none

Xavon

Open up that image in Imageready (came free with PSP if you've never used it)

Now, Slice the image up into decent sized chunks (should be pretty easy, its a nice square size).

Cut out all the bits you want to be links.

Make sure you cut out the bits were you want text sepratly.

Click file>Save optimized as> Save as type>HTml +image (PSP doesn't have this for some odd reason, which is why you need Imageready)

That HTML file should be a working website, upload it, and all the image files to a server.

Tehn you may have to redirect the image tags to theier new URL.

There you have it, a working website.

You may want to get rid of the images that you want to put text in and just type it straight into the whole it leaves.

However, that site is gonna be a real bitch to mentain, bieng based on a single image. If you want I can convert that into a much better website for you, it will loook identical, but you need a couple of pretty expensive programs and quite a bit of technical knowledge to do so. Just drop me a pm, i will do it free of charge and fill you in on what you need to do to update it etc.

dsorrent

Wait, it almost sounds like you are more asking how you make a website with images on it.  I'm assuming you are a beginner to website design?  Look up the HTML image tag "img" and that will show you what you need to include.  If not, you can get yourself a ton of different web design software that you can just drag and drop if you're into GUI stuff.

Also, do a google on:

html image map

 

I think that will show you what you are referring to as an "active web page"

Torx

Thanks for the info xavon, that is what i was looking for.....thanks for the constructive critism too from the others... I changed the outer glow on the site to blend in a bit better with the background...

This is just one of the sites I have created....trying to decide which template to use, I am good at making templates but am new to web publishing.....

Btw, I do have Dreamweaver MX...Adobe GoLive and a few other apps but am still learning how to use them lol....

Oh , and xavon i might just take you up on that offer, im going to try and mess around with it myself first and see what im getting myself into, but im sure i can figure it out.... hell if i can teach myself photoshop I can learn slicing in imageready

---------------------------Desolation Guild WebSite-----------------------------

MMORPG's I Have Played:
__________________________
Everquest - 61 Gnome Warrior
FFXI - 56 Taru Warrior
Asheron's Call 2
Lineage 2 - 38 Orc Monk
Saga of Ryzom

Xavon

Ah if you have Dreamweaver it will be much easier.

Once you've sliced the image, you can open the HTML file in Dreamweaver, It will apear as a table with blue outlines.

Delete the bits where you are gonna put text and fill them with colour, and type away.
(you can get the colour exact by selecting the colour in PSP and copying the number (will be something like #ABC123) and set it for the background for the text boxes)

You can also use Dreamweaver to create all the links, if you paly around for a bit you should figure it all out pretty quickly.

aaddam

If you have dreamweaver my advice would be to do the tutorial that is built in, it is how i have picked up how to use all macromedia's programs they all have fantastic tutorials.