Using FrontPage – Basic Website Issues

@an_tradingMay 21.2007

Hello all,

I’ve made a quick website using FrontPage (url below) but whenever I create new pages the navigation bar (table) keeps shifting around. Is there a way I can lock the cells so that they don’t move with the bulk text? If you look at the two pages up at the moment (main page and Links) you’ll see the cells move around.

~~[url]~~http://www.mendmycar.co.uk/[/url]

Thank you in advance

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@CharlesMay 21.2007 — #You'll get that with tables sometimes, that's one of the reasons that you're not supposed to use them for layout. And there are other, more important reasons as well.

Unfortunately its easy to make a WYSIWYG editor that uses tables and so that's what they do. And they tend to violate all the rules of HTML simply using the parts but not the nature of HTML to create what we call "tag soup".

On the other hand, for a human the non-table, CSS layouts are easier. And they work better.

The first thing that you need to do is to completely ignore the layout. Then start with a <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> and then get all of the content marked up properly. Don't worry about how it looks just get the headings marked up as headings and such. And make sure that it validates and that it works.

Once you have that ironed out then you can take your page to the good folks over at the CSS forum and they will get you going on the layout.

@an_tradingauthorMay 21.2007 — #Thanks for your reply, so there really isn't a simple way to correct this?

@Mr_Initial_ManMay 21.2007 — #Well... If you have a house built wrong from the get-go, you've got one heck of a renovation project ahead of you.

Step 1 could well be a bulldozer, so to speak.

@tracknutMay 21.2007 — #I looked at the pages, and it is quite the mess to try to figure out. But are you keeping the navigation table in a separate file, and "including" it in each of the two (index and links) files? That should help keep it consistent - it should be identical.

But overall, I agree, this is really the wrong way to go about a navigation menu.

Dave

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