FrontPage Woes

S

Sissy

I finally managed to get rid of a left hand column on my homepage (although
they were very easy to delete on the other pages of the site). However, now
as I view it in the browser, the banner area, navigation area (top) and
footer are about two thirds the width of the main page content and are moved
to the left.

Any thoughts?
 
T

Tom Willett

:I finally managed to get rid of a left hand column on my homepage (although
: they were very easy to delete on the other pages of the site). However,
now
: as I view it in the browser, the banner area, navigation area (top) and
: footer are about two thirds the width of the main page content and are
moved
: to the left.
:
: Any thoughts?

Not without a crystal ball ;-) Please post a URL to the page in question.
 
R

Ronx

Compare the code in your home page with that in other pages. For example:

Home page:
<body blah blah...>

<div align="center"> This is different - aligned center instead of left.
Left is correct

<p align="center"> This is different - aligned center instead of right.
Right is correct

<!--webbot bot="Navigation" S-Type="banner" S-Orientation="horizontal"
S-Rendering="graphics" startspan --><img
src="_derived/index.htm_cmp_inmotion010_bnr.gif" width="600" height="60"
border="0" alt="Establishment Dog Training"><!--webbot bot="Navigation"
i-checksum="29481" endspan --></p>

Gift Certificate page:
<body blah blah...>

<div align="left">

<p align="right">
<!--webbot bot="Navigation" S-Type="banner" S-Orientation="horizontal"
S-Rendering="graphics" startspan --><img
src="_derived/Gift%20Certificate.htm_cmp_inmotion010_bnr.gif" width="600"
height="60" border="0" alt="Gift Certificate"><!--webbot bot="Navigation"
i-checksum="18415" endspan --></p>


There are other problems on the home page that need to be fixed. It seems it
was designed and tested on a wide screen monitor. Try opening the browser
as a window (not full screen) - and watch the naughty dog in the box labeled
"Around the fireplug" as you change the width of the window from very wide
to quite narrow.
Absolute positioning should not be used unless you know how to use it - and
if you have the knowledge, you would in most cases use something else.
Absolute positioning will cause problems 95% of the time.

--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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R

Ronx

PS
Your banner and navigation suggests that a DWT (Dynamic web template) would
be a good choice to maintain consistency between pages - or use an include
page for everything between banner and navigation on every page. Then the
banner, .swf movie and navigation would be consistent, easily applied to new
pages and easily updated as and when required.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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S

Sissy

Thank you very much Ronx. However, some questions remain. If I do as you
suggest (change center to left and right as indicated), the banner,
navigation footer areas all become shorter and move to the left while the
content div stays full size.

I don't understand why the other pages are not experiencing this problem.
What does the other pages have that the home page does not have? If I could
just make the home banner/nav and footer look the same as the other
pages..........

I wonder if I simply block copying the code (banner/nav) from another page
(i.e. around the fire plug) would do the trick.

Also, that bad little dog is a "gif" and when I choose relative positioning,
it refused to "stay in the box" all of whcih are "jpgs". It will pop
outside. The boxed fire hydrant is a jpg. The dog is a gif.

I notice that as I scroll the browser screen from left to right - smaller to
larger - all of the jpgs scroll and adjust with the screen size. The dog,
however, will not do the same.

The DWT suggestion scares me. I don't know much about it and at this point
would be afraid that I'd be opening up a can of worms nightmare. I'd be
happy if I could simply make the banner/nav/footer the same on the home page
as it is on the other pages.

Thanks.
 

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