[Fernando Mol]

Screen sizes are always a good topic- How did you choose the size?

And, I think, if there should be designed for small screens, you could have used a nice blended background.

I like westerns. I don’t know about the video look, because the images looks too sharp, but the productions seems to be great.

[Fernando Mol]

Curtis is right.

I’m assuming you already have configured your site in Dreamweaver to FTP connect.

Are you?

[Fernando Mol]

Place your docs inside your site folder.

In Dreamweaver go to the files panel (if it’s not open just click F8). Be sure the drop down menu in the middle of your files panel is in “local view”.

Select your document.

Close to the upper right corner of the files panel there is a blue upper arrow button. Click on it.

A window will pop up giving you some feedback of the process.

After a few seconds it will close.

That’s all. Your files are in your server.

[Fernando Mol]

You need to “upload” the documents to your server.

How are you managing the site? Are you FTP connecting with Dreamweaver? If not, you can google for some free FTP manager. Upload your docs to your server and add the links to your HTML pages.

You can find a Mac version of Open Office in https://www.openoffice.org/

[Fernando Mol]

You can place a direct link to your document.

<a href=https://www.yourpage.com/docs/yourdoc.doc>download the doc</a>

Why can’t you open a .doc file?

If you don’t have MS Office, you can download Open Office for free.

[Fernando Mol]

Well, Hoss, I don’t know what features you want to put in your site, but to go just for the map try this simple step:

Go to google maps (https://maps.google.com/) and find the location you want to put in your site, then in the upper right corner of the map there is a “Link” button. Click on it and it will display two options of code. One is a direct link, the other is an HTML code you can copy/paste to your site to display the actual map.

[Fernando Mol]

Here are a couple of ways to do what you want (I guess).

An old trick using tables is to position a 1 pixel transparent gif inside of a cell, scale it to the size of your image and put your real image as a background. If someone click and drag they’ll get the transparent gif.

If you use CSS, you can create a div, give it an ID and write rules for the size and the background image.

People can always take a screen picture and paste it in paint, but, at least you’ll make them lost a couple of minutes.

[Fernando Mol]

Well, I guess “go for the money” sounds logical.

But what about your dreams?

Do your agency have a mission? I say be loyal to your mission. If it is to “do the best web design in the world”, then maybe you should not go for the templates. But if it is “be a solution for the web design needs” then, do your templates.

Or, if you don’t have a mission, go for the money.

I’m form Mexico, what do you mean with “eco friendly geared web site”?

[Fernando Mol]

You’re welcome, Curtis

I use this tool because it’s in Spanish too (joke).

Angry can be bad for the creative process. A solution to this state of mind can be write some “simulated yell”. But it’s a nice practice to change the text to Lorem Ipsum before you upload (not a joke).

[Fernando Mol]

JPEG – is very good to compress photographic images. This format was born to compress pictures. Not designed specifically for internet. The best options if your image have gradients. Recommended for photographs.

GIF – CompuServe GIF was created for internet. Very good compressing images of less of 256 colors. Supported animation. Recommended for lineart images.

PNG – Not supported in old browsers (guess which one), but it has some unique characteristics, like alpha transparency and lossless compression. Recommended for images with complex transparency or text.