The End/A New Beginning – Pageless Design |

The final stage of building the site was to open Dreamweaver and actually create the site. as you can see below, I reached an almost complete site with a html file linked with a css file. As I was working and writing up the alt tags and the meta data I realized that it was limited for the search engines to find my site and that my listing would be compromised due to the lack of these. I thought before I continued, I would research the downsides of pageless design and then decide whether to continue with this design, below is the progress I have made so far.

Understanding the importance of file hierarchy took an important role of setting up the site, I knew that should anyone else need to come and work on this site, they would need to understand what all the files were. Therefore I made sure my files were labelled correctly and tidily. You can see the structure below;

The site is constructed correctly so that the layout is fully in order, I used Lorem Ipsum as filler text to begin with as that is a fine detail that can be changed in a later stage. The images in portfolio section of the page have a rollover feature so that you can see what the property looked like before the work was done. This was done using a <table> element to allow the images to be laid out correctly on multiple screen sizes. I set up code to allow the user to press the “Contact Us” button on their phone and would automatically start calling from their phone. These were both two things I do think work really well, so these will definitely be staying in the design.

There are two faults I have made so far though, In the .textbox div that overlaps the people on the roof, I have made the mistake of using attributes (position:relative and top:-250px;) This is a specific fault as you shouldn’t use these as it will mean the following content will not follow it’s normal flow, therefore, I must research an alternative method. The same can be said for .textbox2 but this one hasn’t been adjusted to the full extent to be over the top of the image.

This means I need to research an alternative method, which doesn’t break rules of html and css code, my research indicates that an z-index attribute would create a layer over the top of the other sections of the page, this is exactly what I need so I will be researching Z-Index.

This is evidence of the website I created;

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