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webby
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I've just redesigned and relaunched my website on its own domain (was on a free one before). My visitors liked the original one, but I want to know if you think the new one is an improvement or not?
new site: http://www.aquamoonlight.co.uk Aquamoonlight Astrology
original site (with java removed and announcement about the new site, but rest as it was): http://www.aquamoonlight.uku.co.uk
Many thanks 
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crisp_biscuit
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has alot of content which makes the site intresting, i don't like the way the dark blue gets stronger to the right of the page but apart from that, it is great
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webby
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Thank you for taking the time to look at it and post
I had a visitor contact me who uses a higher resolution and he sent me a screen shot. That blue background repeats itself horizontally and when it recentres the text it moves right over into the darker area (formed by the repetition) making it unreadable to him.
I need to get the background to resize or stretch to avoid that. The darker areas either side of the main text are used for links (in white) on pages other than the home page.
I don't want to lose that background as I think it suits the site very well, but am at a loss as to know what to do with it.
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Hi webby,
You're probably not gonna like this, as it would mean editing all your pages (unless you've used templates).
Enclose the whole page content into a fixed-width table, and place your background image into this table (as a background image - I've borrowed & trimmed yours to fit a 760 pixel table). Then create a single colour image (matching the dark blue/black at the outer edge of your current background image) and use this as the background image for the page itself. Like this.
You could change the body text/font to a lighter colour (white or a yellow tone). You might also want to change the colours used for your links for ease of use. (CSS is a great way to control rollover colours and styles.)
Text/font colour is always an issue with graduated backgrounds, but good luck! 
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webby
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Thanks TFC
I like they way you did that, but you are right, I don't like the sound of having to edit over 100 pages. I do use a template to begin with, but not one that automatically pulls in for each page. Each page has the same template within its html. I do use a fixed width table.
Now I shall make you scream lol. I use Word to create the pages and once done, I only ever edit the html, otherwise it messes up anything I've added or changed in the html. (I cannot get on with other programs as I like to see the entire, full screen page as I work)
On my original site I had a darkish bluey background base colour instead of an image, the text was in Aqua (light blue) and links were in bright green. If I now change the text to white, I will have to change the colour of the links to something else to avoid confusion.
I haven't got a clue with CSS, that is beyond my brain's capabilities and I don't even understand the basics! Yes, I admit to being a thicko. I am self-taught with most things.
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webby
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I just had a thought, I absolutely love what you did with that page/image, but in order for me to get that in my webpages it means I would have to create a table within a table and Word then won't let me into the html to edit it thereafter. Word hates nested tables and says it is too complicated to open.
However, being as I have everything on the pages centered and therefore at a higher resolution it is also centered, perhaps I need to stretch that background image (I already did that once to create that image) and at the same time lighten it. Call it the same file name and upload it and voila the whole site is changed at the touch of a button. Now that's what I like: instant solutions!
Have I gone mad? 
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TheFatControlleR
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... Yes, I admit to being a thicko. I am self-taught with most things...
I think thicko is a bit harsh. You've got a very entertaining site with many hours of work put into it, hardly the product of a thinko.
Like you, I'm self-taught in many things (where I can get away with it) and CSS is still new to me. I'm a believer in sticking with the tools we're comfortable with, in time we outgrow any limitations, wanting to move on to something more complex. In the meantime all the tinkering & fiddling we do expands our knowledge, at our own pace.
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webby
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Thank you TFC - you've made my day
You are right about the learning. Trial and error and learning along the way helps a lot. I didn't know a thing about html before I first created that site. I've tried using quite a few of the other programs that others talk about on here, yet they totally mess up what I've already done and I just cannot get on with them.
I think I am going to try to do something with that background image and hope that that will solve the problem. That's the good thing about site vistors giving feedback, even if it is what you don't really want to hear, it's a way of learning to get it right.
Thanks for your input
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TheFatControlleR
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... yet they totally mess up what I've already done ...
Unfortunately, that's the problem with Word (and to a lesser degree M$ FrontPage) they produce extraneous code which other editors either don't recognise, ignore or attempt to overwrite. 
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webby
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I've now lightened the background by taking a part of it and creating a new image from it omitting the really dark parts.
I've tried it using a higher resolution and it doesn't look too bad.
What do you think?
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crisp_biscuit
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yes webby, that looks much better, easier on the eye
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webby
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Thanks for checking it out for me Crisp_Biscuit and glad to hear that you like it better now
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