Kovi

Had anyone gotten the oppertunity to try out WoW during the Stress Test? I did. World of Warcraft is a upcoming game by Blizzard based on the amous Warcraft RTSes, except that WoW will be a MMORPG. It is simply amazing. The graphics are very good, and the game is just fun. The combat system makes sense and for the little bit of time I was on it the in game economy seemed to work well. I played a Night Elf Druid, a Human Mage, a Tauren Warrior, an Undead Warlock, and a Dwarf Paladin. This would definately be a game that I would buy and pay the monthly fee.

I learned by a combination of self-teaching and though the tutorials at http://www.htmlgoodies.com/ and have never used a WYSIYG editor. For new information now I usually use http://w3schools.org//?gtnjs=1 or just the regular W3C site.

I tried TextEdit on school computers a couple times, and found it very clunky, especially when editing pages that were created in another program. It also wouldn't recognize > and < which was very frustrating at the time.I use Notepad for all creating and editing, for pretty much the same reasons of zarjay. I like the complete control it gives. I also always run my code though the W3C validators.

For the basic coding I always handcode and edit using Notepad.I test in FireFox and IE, and generally view pages in FireFox.To manipulate images, I use a combination of Pixia, IrfanView, Terragen, and MS Paint.I upload with WSFTP.

Is it that the top table seems very slightly shifted to the right, and maybe back? If that's what you're talking about, then it's a simple visual effect of the colors you've chosen. I'm not entirely sure why it happens, but a few minutes searching Google should turn up the reason. If you also want a more apparent example of this effect, try placing a block of blue right next to a block of red against a black background.

I didn't know about the CSS img border trick there. 'Twill come in very useful.Also, before you just get rid of img borders entirely, try experimenting with making the link color one the agress with the rest of your design and altering the width. A one or two pixel border can look very nice in an image gallery or such. If you want to use the CSS way (and now that I know it exists, I would too recommend it) and also have images in a menu or such that you don't want borders around, use class definitions to switch between images with borders and ones without.On an alternate note, do you really think that by this time web users are dependent on having an underline to define a link? As long as you use an easily distinguishable color (after running it though one of the various color-blindness tests to check that way too) and don't use switch the mouse icon from the default pointing finger, I should think that the users would be able to figure it out. I guess it depends on your audience, though. If yours is a business site or some such, having underlines might be best as a 'just-in-case' type thing.

I've tried GIMP, but found the learning curve rather too steep. I use Pixia, which, as someone has mentioned earlier, is a very good program. I'm sure that almost everyone by now has at least heard of it, but IrfanView (also freeware) is exellent for resizing, image conversion, and generally viewing images. It does not, however, have the editing capabilities of Photoshop, the GIMP, or Pixia.