Designing websites

I've been designing a few more websites over the past few days - not for anyone specific, but as templates for potential customers. It helps me realise my ideas and learn the code by keeping my hand in. Recently I learned how to add a javascript clock, and how to have borders on table cells (not the thick ugly global table border), but how to display just the top, bottom or side(s) with a border of any colour and width. This is done via inline styling (whereas I think it would otherwise be acheived within a css file).

I've also been experimenting with the "background=file.gif" in cells as opposed to "img src=file.gif" so a small background file can fill a whole cell by repeating plus there is then the option to put either a graphic over the background (using gif transparency), or to add text which makes quite a difference instead of having either a plain coloured background or none at all).

Other html elements I've been playing around with are opening small windows for photos (rather than opening another full page), and email forms. Tripod offer a free service where you can use their cgi-bin to associate an email with (which isn't in the form) this way spambot have nothing to eat. :-)

I've also been looking for codes to disable various browser options, mainly the stealing of images and actual code with partial sucess.

While Googling for a background (via the 'Image tab' for "bg.gif"), I found a few good ones and eventually surfed onto a doman registartion site and was reminded that both www.dspdesign.co.uk & www.dspdesign.com have been taken! Maybe I'll have to settle for www.dspdesign.tk (although that ran out months ago as I'd not had the default 30 visitors per month), but I could still buy it at some point I guess.

I'll have to upload my recent designs which will make 5 or 6 decent templates. If you're intereseted then here's the URL - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/dspdesign/dspdesign/index.html