Feedback on Site for a singer

[aboutthat]

So as a graduation gift, I offered to make a website for a friend of mine who is going into opera (my field as well ). I think I've come up with a basic design and framework, but I'm having a bit of trouble making everything work properly.

The site is: http://www.kristingreen.com

Background on me: I can do wysiwyg stuff (using Dreamweaver MX right now), but outside of basic stuff on that, I'm lost. I usually just tweak around until things seem to work. Right now, the bio section (only thing I've put up yet) is acting all funny; it appears fine in Safari, but in IE on windows or mac, the spacing of the images for the nav bar goes a little crazy. Suggestions?

Also, what's best for making this thing easily editable for my friend who doesn't know, well, anything about websites? I've been trying to figure out how to do some type of dynamic text thing that can pull from say a word document, but no clue what to do. Gah!

So any help or feedback on making it work/design of it all would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[pulsewidth947]

First things first, inital impressions - looks good.

Try and add a title - right now its "Untitled Document". Just as a heads up, the News section link points to null # .

I couldnt find anything wrong when viewing in IE for the Mac, but I know when I've done CSS layouts IE handles them differently. As you've done your layout in Tables, you should be reasonably safe.

In order to make the content dynamic, you should look at PHP. Heres quite a good site that'll give you an insight into PHP. In essence, what you'd need is a standard html form that she could just write in then submit. Upon submission it should store it somewhere (e.g. a MySQL table), and then when people view the website there should be another PHP page which connects to your data base and loads the relevant section. Thats pretty much what I've done for my site.

 

[xelterran]

You dont need to place the images inside seperate table cells in the right nav column - if you need cells for some reason there then just create a new table inside that column.

The best way would be to use an unordered list (<ul>) styled with css.