Web design (graphic help)...

[sptlghtxck21]

My petz site (Dark Lightning Kennels and Cattery) is on a little hiatus at the moment while I remodel it. Unfortunally after remodeling it it looks just about like how it used to before I put my "Be right back" image up.. when I look at my site it mostly just looks like text, I'm not sure if this is why it doesn't get many hits or what -- seems it doesn't get many hits -- I would love for more people to check it out. Anyway.. it's not fully up but I got a few pages up and running I was wondering if anyone had ideas on how I can.. spruce it up so it wouldn't look so.. plain

Dark Lightning Kennels and Cattery <~ a "backdoor" to my site until i get it done.

I'm aware of the spelling error on the layout (didn't notice it until it was saved and coded).

I'm also working on a crews site -- I'm having the same problem with -- I'll post it after I get a few links on it to work.

Thanks for any help!

EDIT: Also for some reason the layout on my main site (posted) and my crews site (coming soon) won't load until you refresh the page. Is there anyway to fix it so they'll automatically load??

EDIT (X2): I've also encountered a problem with making my petz graphic for my crews site. Oddly it's only with the petz i have on P4... I use Paint Shop Pro 9 to make my graphics.. I make a bigger screen with a white background and I have the petz image open, I click on it, Invert it and copy/paste it onto the new white background.. but when I do the background on the petz image is pink or some other color, this only happens with my images saved in Petz 4.. I have no problem with my P5 images doing this.. except for two. I have one image for P4 done but I had to manually cut the background out and copy/paste that way is there a easier way? Also the two P5 images I have one works but when I copy/paste it, it messes the pet up -- it has blank spots all over the pet (if a example is needed I'll post one). So I can't make it transparent. And one I'm not sure if the image used to be a gif image and it was saved as a png format for showing but when I try to invert a catz image it won't invert the whole pic.. in fact it makes several inversions on the corner of the pic (I'll post a example of this one cause it's hard to explain.

Thanks again for any help.

EDIT (X3): I have my crews site pretty much done.. just got to add awards and such.. I have a few probs on it though, when you enter not only do you have to refesh just to get the layout to load but it has a white blank box, I'm not sure how to put anything in that, I would like to use it for udpates if possible.

EDIT (x4): This also happens to petz pics saved in Petz 3 -- Petz 3 and 4 pics give me problems.. Petz 5 pics.. don't


I'm working on examples for the two petz 5 petz..

[j e s i .]

For the pics try making the background transparent... There shouldn't be a problem then and then you can put the pics onto any background color without having to change it manually... You will have to save the image as a .gif for the transparency to work...

For the getting hits thing, I wouldn't know what to do... Advertise like crazy and get onto some links of some big name sites... Ya know what I mean? A lot of times if you advertise all over everywhere then you'll get more hits... If you link your siggy and all that to your site or just have a text link saying to visit somewhere people will... I do all the time... So, maybe try that?

Maybe putting hexies in your siggy and then saying "Want them? Go here!" and haev the "here" linked to your site... People who like them will visit! Anyway, I hope that something I said was relevent and helped you in some way...

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[DIVACUP.]

Right.

Because Rach is hosting you, and she's amazing/gorgeous I want to help.

When you take a picture of your pet from the game, then open it in PSP, you need to promote the image to sixteen million colour format so you can edit it with no mess. Since I don't know how to do this, bar a manual way, just select the whole image [ctrl + a] and then give it a drop shadow. This won't change the appearence of the picture; it'll just promote it to the format you need for a clean edit.

For the HTML help ... do you want to message me, so that I can give you direct help? I think that'd be easier.

AiM - krry763
MSN - [e-mail]

I use those two to the max.

[sptlghtxck21]

hm.. I didn't think of changing the color format.. I'll give that a try.. the HTML is not giving me much problem (all but coding layouts for some reason I couldn't get that to work luckly Soul @ RKC (not sure if they're on here or not..) was kind enough to help me. But if I ever do need help I'll give ya a PM -- uh.. notice you have a yahoo icon on your mini profile, do you still use yahoo messenger? It's the only one I have -- for some reason I got a NASTY trojan virus though aim.. and all I was doing was logging into it one day (but I had a hacker on my computer at that time, they probably got my account info and nailed me with it.. they're gone now.. thank goodness..) Thanks for wanting to help

EDIT: well.. tried that and it didn't work

Examples: -- tried it with Chianna (the munchkin looking cat) and it supposed to be transparent (well your supposed to see white because I have to add a pic of her as a kitten before making it transparent but.. even after changing the color to 16 colors like you said it still done this:


I finally got 1 of the Petz5 petz pics to turn out right.. dunno what I did but it worked lol but I'm still having problems with my best show petz pic...
When I go to invert it (make it transparent) this happens:

it won't invert his whole pic and I always have to cut white spots out of the pic all over... his pic was saved as a jpg but I resaved it as a png format hoping for a better quality.. then this happens I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not..

edit (X2): Here's a finished pic (just so you can get a idea of what I'm trying to do)..

[j e s i .]

Well, I don't use PSP, I use Adobe Photoshop... But what file format are you saving your images as? A .gif is needed to have a transparent background...

If Hansels image is a .bmp or .jpg that may be the problem as to why the image is doing that... Maybe try setting the tolerance of the magic wang up higher... That might work a bit better...

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[DIVACUP.]

Use the "magic wand" selection tool on the toolbar to the left, and select the white, but nothing else. Then go to the "selection" dropdown on the menu at the top, and select "invert".
You should have just the cat selected, no background.

[sptlghtxck21]

Hm.. that's what I'm doing, for some reason this keeps happening.. I don't understand why it's doing it to all my images I save in Petz 3 and Petz 4.. but Petz5 is fine, all but Hansel's file.

All my files are saved as .bmp (unless I change them to .png).. Hansel's was originally in .jpg but I save all my show petz images in .png format for the best appearance... so now Hansel's is in .png format -- as for the transparents, I save them as .gif. I'll try setting the tolerance higher on the Magic wand like jesi suggested

EDIT: Yay Fixed Hansel's pic.. Jesi.. what you suggested worked *tries P3 and P4 pics now*

EDIT: *SIGHS!* P3 and P4 pics are still giving me that same trouble

[XxShadowxX]

on paint shop pro the tool you are using has the front color and then a color behind it (the color picker thingy all the way on the right) well for it to be transparent the back one needs to be white when you are doing all of this.