SOLD! Again! Contrast Can Work FOR You. How to Use Sliced Graphics to Layout Your Web Site.
Have you ever had an experience where everything you wanted had come to you and THEN you discovered something that seemed to spoil the entire event?
That's what happened to me last week when everything I asked for regarding the sale of my house was granted--only the sale did not go through.
I had been flying so high in the joy of selling my house to the perfect buyer, that I really 'hit the wall' at high speed, when the buyer failed to meet the closing deadline (even though we extended it a few days!).
"What went wrong?"
"Why didn't I foresee that?"
"What happened with the Focus Wheel?"
"How could I have prevented this?"
I felt every type of emotion that we call "negative"--I felt, abandoned, betrayed, confused, hurt, angry--you name it and I felt it!
AND at the same time, I knew there was a lesson in this event.
First, I let my closest friends and supporters know what had happened and how it made me feel. They did not let me down! They continued to hold pure positive energy for me around the sale of my house. One person asked: "Do you think there is no one else who wants to buy your house?" (Well, I secretly thought that no one else would meet all the criteria I'd placed around my Focus Wheel.) Another friend counselled, "Keep showing the house to as many people as possible. It will sell again." Others sent me messages of love and acceptance and expressed their conviction that the house would sell again.
A friend really spoke to me by sharing her own personal experience of having manifested the "perfect" situation, only to have it turn into the "event from hell". She brought to light the important lesson: You didn't do anything wrong. You will always experience Contrast so that you can find out what ELSE you want.
So, I added another spoke to my Focus Wheel: "The buyer of this house eagerly completes the deal on time."
Then, I set my intention on FEELING GOOD AGAIN!
I found a place that sells packing boxes dirt cheap and bought some large sized boxes. I mowed the grass, trimmed the hedge and cleaned out the pond.
I took "gratitude walks" and gave thanks for my house, this city and all the wonderful people and events that have taken place here. I worked on projects that brought me great joy! I watched a couple of funny movies with my daughter!! Yes! I began to feel good again.
Within 24 hours the house had SOLD! again! And for more money!!
Now, as we complete the conditions of sale, I have a different attitude. I know that the house isn't sold until the SOLD sign is in place. AND I know that if something "seems" to go wrong, it is simply an opportunity to learn something NEW about what I truly want.
CONTRAST is the Universe's way of giving us MORE of what we truly want.
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The problem with designing your site as a graphic, is that it would take too long to load. Your visitors would leave your site immediately and move to your competitors web site. How can you resolve this?
Slicing graphics into a number of sections, then putting them together in tables is a great way to layout your web site. It cuts down on the time for providing a quick design for a potential client. It also allows you to bring elements of your site together that would be difficult to do with tables.
The value of slicing graphics
Reduces site loading time - a large graphic or many graphics on one web page will slow down your loading time considerably. Slicing graphics will allow each piece to load separately and at a faster rate.
Easy layout and design - web pages usually consist of headlines, photos and text which must all fit together to create a design that is aesthetically pleasing for your visitors. When you create a web graphic it always must have a rectangular space. You are limited to placing graphics and text in a rectangular form. However, if you slice the graphic into pieces, you can then place these pieces into the cells of a table on your web page.
How to layout a web page using sliced graphics Please refer to the example:
http://www.ihost-websites.com/SLICES/header.htm
1434-->1317-->1415-->1366-->1612-->1257-->1. Create a 730 x 600 graphic in your favorite graphic editor (I use Fireworks from Macromedia).
2. Import a graphic from the harddrive of your computer or from the Web.
3. Create a headline (insert text) above the graphic as a banner for your web page.
4. Switch on "Rulers" to precisely slice your graphic view - rulers)
5. Select the slice tool, and slice your graphic into 6 sections.
6. Save the sliced graphic in a folder in your html editor (file-export wizard-export-save)
Use these settings before saving your graphic:
File Name: header
File Type: html and images
HTML: Export HTML file
Slices: Export Slices
Fireworks saves you a lot of design time, by creating the necessary tables to hold all your slices.
7. Open up your favorite html editor (I use Dreamweaver) to view your graphic layout. You should now have 6 separate sections (slices). In this case I have the main header banner, the house and a large area of white space to hold the text in place.
8. Delete the slices (white space area) which have no graphics. You will now have 6 tables.
9. Merge together the tables where you will insert the text.
10. Add the text and whatever else you need to fill the web page.
That's it!
You have now designed a web page using sliced graphics. Remember this slicing method for your future web designs. You'll find that it's much easier to produce dazzling designs.
Tip:
Test the loading time of your web pages (netmechanic.com). It should be less than 10 seconds with a 56K modem. If it takes longer than that, slice your graphic into smaller pieces.
Herman Drost is the Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) owner and author of http://www.iSiteBuild.com Affordable Web Site Design and Web Hosting. Subscribe to his "Marketing Tips" newsletter for more original articles at subscribe@isitebuild.com. You can read more of his in-depth articles at: http://www.isitebuild.com/articles
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