Everything to do with using your own website to advertise your rental property. Design, usability, hosting, getting listed on the search engines, optimising your site, pay-per-click, etc, etc.
Returning to my favourite topic ( ) I've found a Freeware photo-editing program which produces a very acceptable drop shadow without messing about with multiple layers, and, more importantly, without increasing the file-size appreciably, so you don't increase download speeds. It also offers many other editing functions and was awarded 5 stars by the CNet editors.
Oh, now, I think drop shadows can be nice -- emphasis on can. A subtle shadow gives an entire page depth without a person even noticing that it's there... the trick is to under-do it.
Great little program for adding drop shawdow or what i also liked is the frame marks (not external picture frames) but 60 different piture edges. Good find
I just used the background image file on the example on the site given, downloaded to my PC rather than make my own. Now I would never need to use a graphics program at all to give drop shadows to any pictures I wanted. Just specify them as class ="shadow", taking perhaps 2 seconds in frontpage or dreamweaver design view or 10 seconds in HTML (I type slowly). Very quick and painless. and I could play with the shadow intensity etc much more easily than in photoshop etc
I haven't actually got drop shadows anywhere personally but was interested in how to do them.
Next challenge is a simple version of 'rounded corners' on boxes, with no image files - now them I do like!
By all means you can create cross-browser rounded corner effects using pure CSS, without using images, but it involves a large number of stacked <div>s and therefore a lot of markup coding. Creating rounded corner effects using images is much easier and much quicker.
) I've found a Freeware photo-editing program which produces a very acceptable drop shadow without messing about with multiple layers, and, more importantly, without increasing the file-size appreciably, so you don't increase download speeds. It also offers many other editing functions and was awarded 5 stars by the CNet editors.
