Tee, I noticed a lot of weird stuff related to your font styling. I
think what's happening is that there's a bunch of weird syntax in
your style sheets, plus you've often got three or four styles applied
to the same area of the page, with the net result that all the styles
are cancelling themselves out.

The tip-off was when I happened to notice your Arial, Helvetica font
tags and wondered why, since I have Helvetica installed, I was seeing
Times Roman on your page in my browser. This seemed unusual since
usually html font tags will override css styles.

A related problem, though somewhat different, is that throughout your
style sheet you've specified weights of Goudy, plus Stone Sans. It
looks like you haven't picked up on one of the most important
principles of Web design that you really need to be aware of: a
visitor's browser can only display fonts that are actually installed
on that user's computer system. For that reason, it is only safe to
specify default system fonts that normally are installed in Mac and
PC operating systems. Goudy and Stone Sans don't fall into that
category. They are beautiful fonts for print design work, but are
useless when specified as Web page type.

If you want to ensure that some non-system font displays correctly,
the only way that works is to make a graphic using the font.

Overall, the design of your page is quite nice, but those newbie
errors need to be fixed.

I HIGHLY recommend that you spend next weekend carefully reading and
studying Joe Gillespie's Web Page Design for Designers site at
http://www.wpdfd.com , especially the sections devoted to typography
and advanced typography. While it has grown somewhat beyond its
beginnings, the original purpose behind the site was to help print
designers adapt to designing for the Web. You won't regret a minute
that you spend on his site and, in the long run, it will save you
lots of time and frustration.

Suz






>Hi everyone, I am new to this message group, and I am new to the Dreamweaver
>and webpage design, I know little about html.
>
>I have created a form page for my website (still under testing). When I
>click on 'submit' button, it prompts me this: The requested URL was not
>found on this server.
>
>I saved the file as html and pl format and place them into the httpdoc
>folder (require by my hosting server) and cgi-bin respectively. I believe I
>must have missing something. I wonder if anyone would kindly read the
>source of the page and tell me where the problem is, or guide me step by
>step how to place the file correctly to my hosting server.
>The link to the form page is <http://www.teesworks.com/requestcatalog.html>
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Suzanne Stephens
Stephens Design
Lake Oswego, OR
www.stephensdesign.com

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