First Post: Questions from a Beginner

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Hey, it's my first post here. As a peace offering for the shit (my questions) you're about to laugh/weep at, I come with gifts. This is what y'all like, right? If you don't, I suggest a good therapist.

/read the Rules of Engagement #11. Boobs go in StS only/

Now for the show.

I'm designing a webpage, and was wondering how to get the borders or banners down each side of the page so that the page is only a certain width, and the information is in the centre. I can get them so that they're a certain height, but I can't get them to just go all the way down the page. Yeah, that much of a beginner.

I was also wondering about shopping carts and order forms. The page will only sell a couple of products, the main one being a weekly newsletter. Are there any links on how to build an order form or shopping cart? I'd also like any information on mailing lists if possible.

I make myself out to be a n00b, but I can actually understand HTML and CSS pretty well. I just have trouble with the side border aspect of it. Although, I'm sure more problems will arise as I progess!

Any help would be much appreciated.
 
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Give me a link. I know learning this stuff is a biotch if you don't have anyone to give you any explanations
 
Here is a basic template to work with though.

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8" />
  <title>Default XHTML</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>

<body>
<div id="container">
     
<h1>Title of the page</h1>

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</div><!--end #container-->
</body>
</html>

then style.css

Code: 
body{
    background:#eee;
    color:#1f1f1f;
    }

#container{
    margin: 0 auto;
    width:600px;
    border:5px solid #ccc;
    background:#fff;
    padding:10px;
    }

will give you a template like this:
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If you dont understand the difference between centering a div and 'getting the borders down the side to reach the bottom' you gona be fucked when it comes to shopping carts.

I would suggest you look at a widely available CMS with many free templates, such as Wordpress, or pay someone to do it for you.

If you are skint and determined to learn yourself, i suggest you go over some basic html/css tutorials first, and abandon the notion you have a clue what your doing atm.

Net tuts site is pretty good, google it.
 
Thanks Garrett! That's it sorted.

l3msip said:
If you dont understand the difference between centering a div and 'getting the borders down the side to reach the bottom' you gona be fucked when it comes to shopping carts.

I would suggest you look at a widely available CMS with many free templates, such as Wordpress, or pay someone to do it for you.

If you are skint and determined to learn yourself, i suggest you go over some basic html/css tutorials first, and abandon the notion you have a clue what your doing atm.

Net tuts site is pretty good, google it.
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I know how to centre a div, I was just wondering about this. I worded it wrong, which may be where I confused you. As for having a clue about what I'm doing, I'll freely admit I know fucking jackshit compared to alot of guys here.

I'm not mainly doing this for the money currently. I'm doing it just to learn and get experience so I can hopefully earn off it in years to come. I recently quit a job in IB, money isn't a problem, and shouldn't be for a while yet.

And thanks for the links to the tutorial sites. I had a couple of them, but the others are also helpful.

After I made this thread I noticed the newbie section. My bad.
 
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