MAking my own "template???"

[blueflowers]

HEllo. From what I have seen so far... It looks like people just make neat rectangles and designs in photo shop or similiar, then somehow make them as there background for there webpage. I think. I would like to do this. Probably alot easier then using all html to do that. ANyways... Is photoshop okay to use for this? and How can I make it so that my site is 95 percent compatible with word so I can design it then just ad new text as i need it and where i need it down the future for updates and stuff. Instead of writing code. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. I have just fo und that with templates they dont match 100 percent with what i want me site to look like.
THANKS@!@!!!!!
Andrew

[Jade Dragon]

The little rectangles are boxes coded into the page that stretch to accomodate the information placed in them. Typical for most templates.

http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32762

That thread has a little tutorial I did for fixed width boxes. You can use the same method to create a 9x9 box which will stretch both ways.

not sure what else you mean for your template, do you have an example?

[blueflowers]

well right now im working on a header that i want at the top of all my pages. you can view it here...
http://doom3.nerdsolo.com/help/
so i want to do stuff like that then ill have a rectanular one that is there. on the side for my links and stuff

[blueflowers]

Okay. Heres what I did. I finished my header and I am trying to use word as my html maker. I put the header at the top of the word page and saved it as a webpage. I uploaded it to my directory as index.htm.

http://www.doom3.nerdsolo.com/header.gif is where the header is

but the problem lies here

http://www.doom3.nerdsolo.com/

Because for some reason it wont show the picture. Why is word not puting the picture in correctly? anyone know what I have to do?

[Builder]

You need to upload image001.gif to your index_files folder.

Good luck,
Kevin

[blueflowers]

Thanks. I uploaded the file to my ftp and it works now. THANKS ALOT!!!

[blueflowers]

Does anyone know how I can change the background color to all black using Microsoft word? heres the what I have so far until I figure out how to make a side thing that will have my links in it....
http://www.doom3.nerdsolo.com (soon to be www.doomdownloads.com) Thanks for all the help
Andrew

[blueflowers]

Well ive been poking around and I figured it out! Thanks for all your helpe veryone!!!