I am totally a first timer here with building a web page so I know nothing as Shultz would say. I have an issue at hand that I know someone can guide me in about 1 minute as opposed to my 2 hours it will take me.
I'm trying to build the site between PS and Image Ready and for some reason when I preview this page below it moves my type from where it originally is in the PS file. WTF am I doing wrong. I have others but trying to learn one thing at a time. I'll be back...hahaaha
Thanks in advance!
PS file
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/MindGraph/psdfile.jpg
Previewed browser file
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/MindGraph/webfile.jpg

well as long as I'm asking I have another. I built the page just to see if I could make it through it so the pages needed modification when they were done and still do. Question:
One of my links to "portfolio" won't stop linking to the original page I made up and link to the new one even though I dumped the old page and replaced it with the new and they have the same name. Any ideas? this is all on my desktop right now so I can't link anyone to a site as of yet

what happens when you export the file as an html doc and images? is the text still screwy?

if i were you, i would completely ditch the idea of making the entire page in PS and IR. all you have is text and a background. hard code that in html = done.

looks to me like the image ready went nuts on you.. it is so easy to not get everything lined up and sliced out and everythng turned on or off on all the layers So I agree too with polish that large image files are not the way to go for a web page as they
are long download times and not considered web standard to hardwire a page can you use cascading style sheets and some xhtml and then use the img tags to place your headers, footers and any buttons you have?
just suggestions

wish I could say I know what you mean......but I don't
To answer Polish Mafia's question that's when the example I posted is moving the text. When I save optimised in Image Ready to my web folder as html. Saved images and all plus overwrote what needed to. I don't know code or anything like that so don't know how to correct that way. Strictly visual at this point. I didn't start out expecting to build the way I did but just wanted to see if I could do it once I got going and that's how I ended up where I did. I think I'll upload it and then I'll have a link for everyone to look at where I am.

ok...here's my link and I'm working on the slices etc. for the buttons and all but this is where I'm at right now. One thing I'm learning is that self teaching is very rewarding but also very overrated...hahaha
http://www.mindesigngraphics.com

I have never used imageready in web building, only use photoshop for resizing, heades, rollovers when i used them and building photoalbums, dreamweaver and flash for the rest.
you do all the work, graphix, text, ect i'll build you a site in dreanweaver, only takes minuts when every thing is ready and designed, only thing that needs changing is the background, it needs to be a repeating tile, i could add the bevel on another layer

I had no idea of web-coding when I built my own company-website. I was using "html4 for dummies" and dreamweaver. that was enough to get a result that was ok in design and function (thanks to certain psc-members who were very helpful). nothing extraordinary at all, but webdesign is not in my portfolio, so I dont have to care for a special design. I am just using my website as a kind of electronic business-card. Have a look, maybe this helps...

www.vogelweid.at

those websites are apalling, sorry.

take some time to read a couple of tuts

http://www.w3schools.com/

supkoma...I'm just focusing right now on the mechanics. Design will come after but I will check out your link. Again, this is the first time ever attempting to both learn it and build it so I know it needs work.If you can expand on your comment it would help on which direction to go. I didn't realize how much different designing a website is from doing still design. I'm learning that fast. So far I've been able to build it using just PS and Image Ready and with some flaws here and there which I'm sure are me it seems to work ok but that's just on the surface. Loading seems a bit of a drag but could be me maxing out here. Also got a button giving me a hard time. Thanks for the tips and help so far

This site has some great website design tutorials:

http://www.talk-mania.com

dont do it all in PS/IR.
just a tip, it is really annoying to have all images. I am on dial up and it took forever to load. Even if you arent on dial-up its kind of pointless to have images instead of text.

The background image is also kind of overdone. It seems like more of the main focus than a background should be.

you should definitely get some kind of web editor, there are some good open source ones (at least their websites say that they're good)

these are some ones people said are good. I've never used any cause I have dreamweaver.
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Overview.html
http://nvudev.com/index.php