Editing html in a website made with css

Andy From Sligo

Ive just started using a webpage builder and its using css styles and scripts. Uploaded it to my host. But if i want to add an image (image source) into the html body it seems to put the image or anything i want to add at the top of the web page and not in the position on the page where i want it to go. In laymans terms please , what am i doing wrong?

tricky D

Kinda need to see the code.

Andy From Sligo

tricky D wrote: »

Kinda need to see the code.

tried pasting the source code even wrapping it in <!-- comment tag and then boards asked that I wasnt a robot and it just disappeared and didnt post.

anyway (excuse the boring 1990's style website page) but here is the website, maybe you could look at the source code and see?

computer repairs & upgrades,
Sligo

tricky D

Can't see the error. I would strongly advise you to get yourself a theme which would sort out the responsive site and make it look modern. The design you currently have looks very, very dated. there are plenty of free ones eg. https://templated.co/ but even spending a few dollars on a good one will pay for itself in no time as it will save you loads of hassle.

Graham

tricky D wrote: »

I would strongly advise you to get yourself a theme which would sort out the responsive site and make it look modern. The design you currently have looks very, very dated.

+1

There's more than a hint of geocities circa 1998 about the design, particularly the scrolling text.

Viewing on a mobile is like trying to read the Sunday Times through someones letterbox. There's 75% of your audience automatically gone.

M.T.D

I agree with previous posters regarding the design and would say do not spend any more time on it. Start again with a more up to date system.
The reason you are having difficulty inserting an image is that all the components are positioned absolutely.
Imagine a sheet of squared paper each of the components has a pair of coordinates where it is going to appear on the page, top left being 0,0.
You can't insert an image with out first making space for it, changing the coordinates of the other page components first to make room for it. Then giving the image the coordinates to fit in the space.
This was never a good way of doing things even in the days before mobile devices and definitely should be avoided now.

Andy From Sligo

M.T.D wrote: »

I agree with previous posters regarding the design and would say do not spend any more time on it. Start again with a more up to date system.
The reason you are having difficulty inserting an image is that all the components are positioned absolutely.
Imagine a sheet of squared paper each of the components has a pair of coordinates where it is going to appear on the page, top left being 0,0.
You can't insert an image with out first making space for it, changing the coordinates of the other page components first to make room for it. Then giving the image the coordinates to fit in the space.
This was never a good way of doing things even in the days before mobile devices and definitely should be avoided now.

thanks, i was using serif web starter and presumed that this was the up to date way of web coding websites now

Graham

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

thanks, i was using serif web starter and presumed that this was the up to date way of web coding websites now

I think they retired Serif Webplus about 2012, it didn’t get great reviews even back then.

Andy From Sligo

Graham wrote: »

+1

There's more than a hint of geocities circa 1998 about the design, particularly the scrolling text.

Viewing on a mobile is like trying to read the Sunday Times through someones letterbox. There's 75% of your audience automatically gone.

ah yes - re the scrolling text. I wanted to avoid the old html marquee tag at all costs. So with the Serif program I chose insert web object/animated marquee and it used the code:




but when I tried viewing it in Google chrome and firefox it never showed up - so thats why I reverted back to the normal HTML Marquee code