Repost - still need help

[~Brenda]

Hi,

I am trying to redo a website for a quilting girlfriend:

http://www.rainbowsandcalicothings.com/new/index.htm

I am using DWT's, but my pages are changing the size of the tables, and I'm
not sure why, and don't understand how to correct them.

If you look at the above index page, and then go to the BOOKS page
(http://www.rainbowsandcalicothings.com/new/books.htm) you can see the page
change size.

I'm not sure how to correct this. I use FP2003 and work mainly in the
design view, and admit that I am not as capable in the coding side as I
should be. Any and all help GREATLY appreciated.

Thank you,
Brenda

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen]

Table cells grow to accomodate what you put in them. If you make
things a little smaller on the books page it will fit.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen.

 

[Sandy]

Hi Brenda,

I'm new to Front Page, too, so I know how hard it can be. I'll try to help.

Are you using a dynamic page template, since most of your pages look alike?
If you are, you'd would only have to look at that page. Also, it looks
like you are probably using tables.

In design view, right click on the web site and choose Table Properties.
Try to get the very background of the main table. Then in the Layout section
you will see sizes for the table. If you see 100% for width and height, try
checking the Specify width and Specify height buttons and setting the pixels.
Then everything should stay the same and not change based on what's in a
cell. You might have to play around a bit with this.

If a dynamic page template wasn't used, I guess you'd have to do this for
each page of your web site.

Let me know if this helps.

Sandy

 

[Sandy]

Oops - didn't read your first post carefully enough.

You are using what I called a dynamic page template - that's the dwt file.
Make the change I previously suggested in the dwt file and, once you save it,
any changes should flow through to all the other pages.

Sandy

 

[~Brenda]

Hi Sandy,

Yes, I am using dynamic templates. I "thought" that I have the main table
set to 800px, but my other tables still seem to increase anyway. I can try
to decrease the size of the books, but my fear is that someone else viewing
my website at a different resolution than I am, may have the issue of the
pages changing size.

Brenda

 

[~Brenda]

Hi,

I think I need to set the tables to a specific size, but I'm not sure how to
do that. I work in the design view and don't know that much about code.

Brenda

 

[Sandy]

Brenda,

I'm probably not going to be much more 'help' - my dwt page is set to 770
for the table and when I enter data into my editable region, the dwt does not
allow it to go beyond the set size.

When I look at the source code for your index page, I see that a CSS is
being applied.
My next guess would be that something in the CSS is overriding the dwt
sizewise.

Sandy

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen]

As I wrote it will do that. The size is not an absolute size but a
minimum size.
800px is the same no matter the resolution of the screen.
So if somebody is using a 800x600 resolution the browser will have to
insert vertical scrollbars to see the entire page.
Vertical scrolling should be awoided if possible.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Right click in the table, then under table properties, set the width to 770 pixels, then make sure
that the total of all columns / cells width values do not total more then 100% of the table width.

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[Andrew Murray]

Don't you mean horizontal scrolling (across the screen)? Scrolling Up and
down is inevitable and acceptable

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen]

Of course. Answering postings at 03:00 AM maybe isn't such a good
idea.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen.

 

[~Brenda]

Tom,

I think I did that, but the "books.htm" page is still wider than the
index.htm page. I apparently am overlooking something and/or not
understanding something.

Brenda

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Check any images that may be forcing the table / cell to expand.

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[~Brenda]

What do I check them for? I have them as thumbnails.

 

[~Brenda]

I thought I had it figured out... the right hand table needed to be set to
221px (because that's what the index was set to)... but that didn't help.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The width of all images in a row must not exceed the overall width of the cell / table.

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[~Brenda]

I'm still lost.

I just changed the size of the thumbnails to 50 pixels wide, thinking that
with 4 pictures, if each is 50 pixels wide, that would make the total 200,
which is less than 221 pixels of that right table.

The books now look a lot narrower than they need to be, yet the page still
changes size... I'm not seeing what I have done wrong (again).

Brenda

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Can you provide a URL to this page?

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[~Brenda]

http://www.rainbowsandcalicothings.com/new/ This is the main page.

Then by clicking on the "books" button on the left -
http://www.rainbowsandcalicothings.com/new/books.htm - this is the page
that changes size.

Then you can click on the orange "ONLINE STORE" (on the left) to get back to
the index again.

I am just totally stumped -- your help GREATLY appreciated.

Brenda

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Have you checked the images on your home page ?

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