Little problem!

[Guest]

Hi,

I cant seem to put text in my four boxes as the cells and tables get pushed
to one side.

It really is spoliing it for me

Here is what the boxes look like.

http://townietrash.com

any one have a solution?

thanks
Marcus

 

[Murray]

Boy, that page is wide, and that GIF is annoying. My opinion, of course.

Your problem is a common one. By including the entire page in a single
table, you commit the structure of each row and column to a single
interacting framework. Layouts like this work much better with a) no col-
or rowspans (i.e., no merged and split cells), and b) carefully nested and
stacked tables.

By using the method I describe, changes in one part of the layout cannot
affect other parts of the layout.

To read more about the dangers of merging and splitting cells, go here -

http://apptools.com/rants/spans.php

 

[Chuck Davis]

Your page is just barely visible at 1024 by 768 resolution on a 21 inch
monitor. Your table width is "991" will bother fifty percent of your
audience. The height attribute of "1000" will make some browsers go bonkers.

Your navigation buttons can't possibly fit in a monitor with 800 by 600
resolution. You will have to provide for them to automatically form multiple
rows.

For your own testing of different resolutions, download and install the
Firefox browser and set it to preview in different resolutions.
http://www.mozilla.org

Understand that the search engines will expect all of your meta keywords to
appear on the same page!

 

[Guest]

Hmmmm thats weird all the best sites on the internet are about my size.

Have you any examples of your work?

im 18 and inexperinced. Thanks for the help so far.

good sites which are about my size are.

http://www.sk-gaming.com/
http://www.team3d.net/
http://www.csnation.net/

weird how these designers made quite big sites, im confused?

any ideas

 

[Murray]

There's no need to change resolutions to test this page. Just maximize your
browser viewport and grab the corner resizer. Then watch the page as you
resize the viewport down.

 

[Murray]

Hmmmm thats weird all the best sites on the internet are about my size.

Actually, maybe the ones you have visited, but what about MSN, or Yahoo, or
all the rest of the sites with the exception of the ones you visit? 8)

Have you any examples of your work?
http://www.great-web-sights.com

any ideas

Think of your audience and their browsing habits when you design your layout
plan.

 

[Guest]

hmmmmmm everything seems fine,, i have tested this site in all resolutions
and it seems great. When i resize using the bottom right corner adjuster it
dosent spoil the sites structure at all.

Also i made this site using my screen which always runs at 1600 by 1200 and
its very readable and viewable.

I need to know how to fix my cells. So i dont have to redo the frame
structure etc?

any ideas

(p.s. have you any work to show me your sizes etc )

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

murray,
how are you seeing anything? all's i get is an index when I enter that url even with www.townietrash too

 

[Guest]

yer its because i keep taking my site down, then putting it back up to test
online things etc. Sorry about that hehe!

It will most like go on and off about 5 times tongiht.

I must have a problem in my head lol

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

hey there it is!
put some padding in those tables so the text is not so cramped to the cell borders.
looks nice though.

 

[Wes]

Why not just publish your changes? They will overwrite the ones on your
server.

 

[Guest]

wow thanks man! one problem if i put cell padding into it my cells theygo
out of line etc. I tried 3,3,3,3 all directions but it makes the tables jump
a little.



any ideas as i would love some padding

Marcus!

 

[Guest]

also for publishing i dont like it that way, as i dont want a 10% finsihed
site on the net at all. I just put it up for help like here and test online
things i.e php scripts.

Im just learning this stuff atm

 

[Wes]

That's normal, as the table will expand with the cell size. You might try
padding in the table itself and see what that brings.

 

[Wes]

Who's gonna know unless you tell someone.
Search engines take from several weeks to a couple of months to index.
You could also name the file something else like test_index.html and access
it as www.mysite.whatever/test_index.html. When you're satisfied with it,
rename it to index.html
and it will open as the default whenever someone enters
www.yoursite.com-org, etc.

 

[Trevor L.]

Marcus,

team3d.net is large !!

I have a 17" monitor (about 41cm viewing area) set to 800 *600 and this site
generates a horizontal scroll bar (as well as a vertical one because the
page is very deep).

Even when I set the monitor to 1024 * 768, there was still a vertical scroll
bar, but boy was the text hard to read.

Perhaps it would work with a 21" or larger monitor, but I wouldn't think
that the majority of users would have that size - I may be wrong, of course.

I read further down the thread and found that you use 1600*1200 - wow, what
size monitor do you need to make that readable?

P.S. Your site was down for me too.
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.




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[Guest]

hehe thats a nice idea, ill get to work on setting it up!

thanks
Marcus