Redesigning home page to narrower width

[Guest]

The home page ("Index") on my Web site has become somewhat corrupted in its
design as I have gradually added elements and inserted tables over time. It
has become too wide for most screen displays, so it requires a lot of
sideways scrolling when viewed online. I would like to redesign this page
with the same content, but would like to limit its width.

I have two questions related to this problem that I hope to solve by copying
all of the original home page content into a newly designed "Index" page:

1. Can I just create a new "Index" page within the existing Web site's
folder, or do I need to create a whole new separate Front Page document to
copy into? What is the best way to build a replacement home page for an
existing Web site?

2. Is there some way to "lock" a width into a page so it won't be widened as
I continue to add future new elements or design tables to the page? If so,
what is the best way to accomplish this? (Does this involve specifying table
and/or page width by pixels?)

Thanks in advance for any assistance.
mefischer

 

[clintonG]

Each of us becomes the best in our own right but not until we learn the best
of others who came before us. So, can you handle the best? If so, you would
do nothing more on your site until you learned to do so using CSS, the whole
point being it makes the reuse of your content a simple copy and paste
whereas using the HTML tables FrontPage and other push button monkey code
generators produce makes it much more time consuming to migrate content from
one implementation to another. Using pbmc means we need to go into the HTML
source to copy text out of table data cells to paste them into a 'new' page
laid out using semantic HTML as text.

<p>
This is 'semantic' HTML (think of it in this context perhaps as 'pure'
HTML)'.
Style is not declared within the HTML source.
The style is declared in the .css file.
</p>

You can also drag and copy text right from the canvas of the designer but
pasting into other editors or IDEs can be problematic unless using a utility
such as Steve Miller's "Pure Text" [1].

Search and save reference documents is going to keep you busy.

<%= Clinton Gallagher
METROmilwaukee (sm) "A Regional Information Service"
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://metromilwaukee.com/
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/

[1] http://www.stevemiller.net/

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Take your current index.htm page and make a copy of it (as say indexold.htm) to use if you need portions of it
Either Delete everything and start w/ a new layout in index.htm or selectively edit it
Lay out your new page using a 750 px wide table
- watch out as you add content that you don't add images that stretch the table

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| The home page ("Index") on my Web site has become somewhat corrupted in its
| design as I have gradually added elements and inserted tables over time. It
| has become too wide for most screen displays, so it requires a lot of
| sideways scrolling when viewed online. I would like to redesign this page
| with the same content, but would like to limit its width.
|
| I have two questions related to this problem that I hope to solve by copying
| all of the original home page content into a newly designed "Index" page:
|
| 1. Can I just create a new "Index" page within the existing Web site's
| folder, or do I need to create a whole new separate Front Page document to
| copy into? What is the best way to build a replacement home page for an
| existing Web site?
|
| 2. Is there some way to "lock" a width into a page so it won't be widened as
| I continue to add future new elements or design tables to the page? If so,
| what is the best way to accomplish this? (Does this involve specifying table
| and/or page width by pixels?)
|
| Thanks in advance for any assistance.
| mefischer

 

[Wally S]

Not necessarily true. I have re-designed pages using tables, and it went
pretty fast. Deciding on the design took more time than implementing it.

Wally S

Each of us becomes the best in our own right but not until we learn the best
of others who came before us. So, can you handle the best? If so, you would
do nothing more on your site until you learned to do so using CSS, the whole
point being it makes the reuse of your content a simple copy and paste
whereas using the HTML tables FrontPage and other push button monkey code
generators produce makes it much more time consuming to migrate content from
one implementation to another. Using pbmc means we need to go into the HTML
source to copy text out of table data cells to paste them into a 'new' page
laid out using semantic HTML as text.

<p>
This is 'semantic' HTML (think of it in this context perhaps as 'pure'
HTML)'.
Style is not declared within the HTML source.
The style is declared in the .css file.
</p>

You can also drag and copy text right from the canvas of the designer but
pasting into other editors or IDEs can be problematic unless using a utility
such as Steve Miller's "Pure Text" [1].

Search and save reference documents is going to keep you busy.

<%= Clinton Gallagher
METROmilwaukee (sm) "A Regional Information Service"
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://metromilwaukee.com/
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/

[1] http://www.stevemiller.net/

The home page ("Index") on my Web site has become somewhat corrupted in
its
design as I have gradually added elements and inserted tables over time.
It
has become too wide for most screen displays, so it requires a lot of
sideways scrolling when viewed online. I would like to redesign this page
with the same content, but would like to limit its width.

I have two questions related to this problem that I hope to solve by
copying
all of the original home page content into a newly designed "Index" page:

1. Can I just create a new "Index" page within the existing Web site's
folder, or do I need to create a whole new separate Front Page document to
copy into? What is the best way to build a replacement home page for an
existing Web site?

2. Is there some way to "lock" a width into a page so it won't be widened
as
I continue to add future new elements or design tables to the page? If so,
what is the best way to accomplish this? (Does this involve specifying
table
and/or page width by pixels?)

Thanks in advance for any assistance.
mefischer