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Tailslide -> RE: the benefit of your expertise, please... (2/6/2008 9:47:12)
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ORIGINAL: muskoka
Also... are meta-tags and H1 tags the same thing? Could I have made that question sound any more newbie?
[:D] Don't worry - we've all been there! No Meta tags exist in the document head rather than the actual page whereas H1 tags are HTML tags that exist in the page body itself in the same way that you get paragraphs, lists, divs, tables etc. What you do is instead of having a paragraph with your heading text in it plus a load of styling - you have h1 tags around the heading text and then you can style the H1 tag to look exactly how you want (it's big and ugly by default).
The central part of the page might be 600px wide but it's sitting within a div and a table that are 100% width - plus there are a load of blockquote tags (which should only be used to indent quotes) indenting the navigation and they stick out quite a bit on either side of the navigation giving the scrollbar.
Your best bet is to get rid of all those blockquotes. Then make the outer table the width you want (say 600px wide) and centre it by adding
style="margin:0 auto;
to the table tag itself as you don't appear to have a stylesheet.
Like this:
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INTUITIVE PORTRAITURE</p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt">A portrait “sitting” consists of
either an in-person 1-hour consultation in a location chosen by the portrait
subject, or as a guided
<a title="Digital Diary Instructions" href="digital_diary_instructions.htm">
digital diary</a> made by the subject (if geography is a consideration). The
best location for this is one in which you feel most like yourself, be it a work
location, a garden/outdoor location, a certain room of your home, </span>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt">or </span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt">a neutral
public meeting space. During the in-person sitting, I will prepare the
portrait surface/background. I might ask you to answer some basic
questions </span>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt">(see <a href="sitting_questionnaire.htm">sitting
questionnaire</a>) </span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt">designed to help me identify with my subject.<br>
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The portraits are <i>not</i> done in typical representational style simply
reproducing the subject as they are seen from day-to-day, but more like a series
of characters embodying influential and motivational forces or persons in the
subject’s life. Some may symbolize times of happiness while others may describe
challenges or adversity. These characters could be described as totems or
emblems and often emerge as animals. The process is intuitive in the sense that
I know very little about the subject and trust my artistic sensitivity to guide
the development of the portrait. I advise participants against providing
information about specific names or relationship to the subject. The characters
emerge from intuitive impressions resulting from the short time the subject and
I spend together, or from the subject’s digital diary, as the case may be.<br>
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The portraits I produce are intended as a personal illustration of</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt">
-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt"> and for</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt">
-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt"> the
subject. I work on ranger board in an oval format, drawing mostly. They are not
intended as idealized “trophies,” although visual references of triumph or
accomplishment may appear in portraits. I see my role in the process as that of
an objective reporter in portraying the subject, but as an artist, there will be
evidence of my own stylistic expression in the final product.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt">I include a literal
interpretation of the portrait content with the finished piece.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt" lang="en-us"><i>For ordering information, please
see the </i><a href="contact.htm">CONTACT</a><i> page</i></span></p>
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<b>N.B.</b><br>
I do not do portraits of children or pets, and...<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt">I make no claims to psychic ability, nor do I claim that these portraits
are tools for healing or spiritual guidance.</span></p>
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