TA DA!!! My Book of Mormon in Mesoamerica website

[_Dr. Shades]

Beastie, on your opening page, may I persuade you to put your title into a white box as well?

Also, may I persuade you to left-justify your text and table of contents instead of centering it/them?

[_Sethbag]

Let me know if you have suggestions or see problems. I can't promise I'll fix it right away because I AM SICK OF IT, but eventually I will.

It is very attractive. But I can't read the content, because the print is so little and the wallpaper intrusive. And I have a large monitor.

I too find the wallpaper intrusive. In general, I detest websites that put background patterns on their pages. It makes it very hard to read.

[_beastie]

Shades,

I originally did have it left-justified, but it still looked spaced funny. I'll try again since I fixed the overall center spacing of the text. I though the title was easy enough to read without the special box, but I'll try and see if it looks better.

Seth,

Can you read it better now since I div-tagged it, and most of the pages' text is white boxed? There were a couple of pages that had such light background I didn't think it necessary.

[_Scottie]

Beastie, you should also add padding:10px; at the end of each of those div tags so that the text isn't right against the borders.

Oh, and I agree with shades. Left justify it.

[_harmony]

Beastie, you should also add padding:10px; at the end of each of those div tags so that the text isn't right against the borders.

Oh, and I agree with shades. Left justify it.

No, center it. And put some white around the outside to separate the text from the wallpaper. And I like the wall paper.

[_Sethbag]

Beastie, you should also add padding:10px; at the end of each of those div tags so that the text isn't right against the borders.

Oh, and I agree with shades. Left justify it.

No, center it. And put some white around the outside to separate the text from the wallpaper. And I like the wall paper.

You may like the wallpaper, but look at all the best websites, and you'll find that none of them use it. That's because, in general, it is very distracting to the eyes, and makes a page harder to read, and people are less willing to go to the trouble to do so.

[_harmony]

Beastie, you should also add padding:10px; at the end of each of those div tags so that the text isn't right against the borders.

Oh, and I agree with shades. Left justify it.

No, center it. And put some white around the outside to separate the text from the wallpaper. And I like the wall paper.

You may like the wallpaper, but look at all the best websites, and you'll find that none of them use it. That's because, in general, it is very distracting to the eyes, and makes a page harder to read, and people are less willing to go to the trouble to do so.

I suspect we have different criteria by which we judge a website.

[_Scottie]

Beastie, you should also add padding:10px; at the end of each of those div tags so that the text isn't right against the borders.

Oh, and I agree with shades. Left justify it.

No, center it. And put some white around the outside to separate the text from the wallpaper. And I like the wall paper.

You may like the wallpaper, but look at all the best websites, and you'll find that none of them use it. That's because, in general, it is very distracting to the eyes, and makes a page harder to read, and people are less willing to go to the trouble to do so.

Wallpaper is ok as long as your text is in a nice white background and the wallpaper isn't overpowering. I think Beastie's wallpaper is fine.

[_Scottie]

Beastie, and anyone else that cares to know, lets have a lesson in CSS.

Something that would make your life MUCH easier is to create a style sheet. So, in frontpage, create a file called Style.css.

Inside this file should look like this...

.mainText { background:white;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;padding:10px; }

Then, in frontpage, you should be able to link this file with each page. If you can't do it in frontpage, look at the HTML and add this line

<link rel="Stylesheet" href="style.css" />

This should go somewhere in your <head> tag. Right under the <title> is a good place.

Once you do that, instead of putting each of these attributes in each div tag, you can replace them so your tag now looks like this...

<div class="mainText">

Ta da!! Now, if you need to change something, you change it in one place and everything in your whole web site changes.

And you can control pretty much everything through this. From text alignment, to text color, background color, spacing, borders, etc...

[_Sethbag]

Beastie, you should also add padding:10px; at the end of each of those div tags so that the text isn't right against the borders.

Oh, and I agree with shades. Left justify it.

No, center it. And put some white around the outside to separate the text from the wallpaper. And I like the wall paper.

You may like the wallpaper, but look at all the best websites, and you'll find that none of them use it. That's because, in general, it is very distracting to the eyes, and makes a page harder to read, and people are less willing to go to the trouble to do so.

I suspect we have different criteria by which we judge a website.

Nice little zinger there, but it's wasted effort here. Websites, like a lot of thing, need to grab and hold peoples' attention before they can or will digest its contents. If people find a website bothersome to the eyes, often they won't bother reading it and they'll move on and read something else. By way of analogy, you probably don't test drive every car out there and pick solely on which one handles best. You probably only test drive the cars that appeal to you aesthetically, and the ugly cars go undriven. Websites are often the same way.

A website with a very strongly visible wallpaper is a bit of a butterface.