I need your wisdom :)

[Jules17]

Hi.

I am amerature (I don't consider myself a beginner-beginner) at website development but understand most html and can problem solve my coding fairly well and learn very fast. I have done a couple websites and blogs but am creating my own website and I want it of course to be superb. It is for my wedding planning business and I am having two issues:

1. I want to have (need) a 'fluid design' that adjusts itself to the users' browser settings. I cannot for the life of me find the coding or the how-to.

2. I want my website to be set up like either one of these
Site 1
Site 2
Site 3

I want to know what the interactive component of the website is. I am assuming that is flash? I have dreamweaver software. I have tried the help section in adobe but to me it seems useless, because I don't know what this inteactive component is.

Oh and I guess three questions:
3. CSS - what is it and how do I know I am using it?

Any help is more than appreciate!

[Wickham]

I had a quick look at the three example and all seem to use javascript.

The first two use swapimage to change images on hover and the last one uses onfocus="blur()" which does much the same thing.

There's no Flash as far as I can see.

To get a fluid design that adjusts to users' browser resolution, use % widths for everything - divs, side margins, side padding, side borders and even image widths.

To prevent your page being much too wide at say 1920px window width or completely squashed up at 500px width, use max-width and min-width. This doesn't work in old browsers like IE6 so you probably need a conditional comment and use a fixed width just for IE6.

See http://www.webdevforums.com/showthread.php?t=28044