Final Projects: Link Round-Up

As requested, here are the links for our class projects this semester. Good work, all!

Anam Cara Canines
Vietnam Webquest
The Moonlight Ashes
The Lazy Maybes
The Reavis Newsletter Online
Green Horizon, Inc.
LZ Productions
Guilde of St. Michael
Writing an Effective Research Paper
Boy Scout Troop 32
FSSF Re-Enactment Unit
Kid, You'll Move Mountains
eLuminations
G.A.S.P.

Subject field for e-mail links

I really liked how Ericka had the "Subject" field automatically populated when a user clicked on an e-mail link. I can't seem to figure out how to do that in Dreamweaver. Any help out there?

Thanks,

Jake

Signing Off

Just wanted to say I enjoyed blogging this semester even though I didn't always have the most insightful of posts. I'm looking forward to all the presentations tonight. Thanks again to all in class for the helpful comments and intriguing posts. Cheers!

Emoticon :)

Site stats

I have started to incorporate Statcounter into my site. You might want to add it to yours. You can see how it works on a typical blog by visiting James Kunstler's site and clicking on "View My stats" which is at the bottom of the main frame. That will take you to Statcounter, where you can see how many people visit the blog, where they came from, their server information, how many blogs link to it, etc... There is a wealth of information available that will give you amazing feedback on how people use your site.
In order to make it work for your site, you need to sign up with Stat counter and then paste a small piece of their code on each of the pages on your website.
Cheers,
DMCG

pesky alignment problems

Hey, Gordon & Deb!!!
I figured it out!!!
That valign="top" bit has to be in the row tag! So (in the code) find the cell that you would like the contents of to stick to the top, and go up until you find the "tr" tag (inside angle brackets of course) that the cell resides in, and inside those brackets type in the valign="top". Tah dah!!!! Whoohoo!!!
Does that make any sense? If you can't get it to work, email me (edawson@niu.edu).

Places to go for help and tips

I think I've mentioned these before, but this may be a good time to mention them again.

If you have technical coding questions (like why does this site work in IE but not in Firefox?), try the forum boards at sitepoint.com. The community is very friendly and helpful, and won't turn down a politely worded request for help. Just be sure to be as specific as possible about your problem and what software you are using. Give them the address to the site (if it's live on the web) so they can see for themselves.

A very nice place for help with graphics (especially Photoshop questions) is graphics.com. Imaginative name, I know. They also have a good forum board community, and their "tips" section has some great articles.

I also highly recommend good-tutorials.com if you're looking to create a specific effect, like torn edges or carved wood or whatever. Check their unobtrusive menus on the side for items like "web graphics" and "web layouts." Fun stuff.

Hope you find these resources useful!

Page Layout

Hello!

Quick question:

Does anyone know how to limit the width and space of the page? I.e., so that it doesn't keep expanding to the right, creating unnecessary horizontal scrolling. I thought maybe it had something to do with altering the margins, but cannot seem to get that to work.

Help? :)

Thanks!