[css-d] Two Column/Three Column Help

[Richard Brown]

Hi All

I recently asked for help for this site:
http://www.swmug.co.uk/
I was advised that my maths skills were somewhat out! Anyway, I have 
been thinking and realised that I could have made the site two column 
and place the image that is in the left column within the content and 
set a padding.

Please could I ask what would be the merits of creating:
1. Two column with background image and padding
2. Three column with a column dedicated to an image.

Many thanks

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Rich
http://www.cregy.co.uk
Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. 
Romans 12 v 1

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Re: [css-d] Two Column/Three Column Help

[David Laakso]

Richard Brown wrote:

>I recently asked for help for this site:
>http://www.swmug.co.uk/
>I was advised that my maths skills were somewhat out! Anyway, I have 
>been thinking and realised that I could have made the site two column 
>and place the image that is in the left column within the content and 
>set a padding.
>Please could I ask what would be the merits of creating:
>1. Two column with background image and padding
>2. Three column with a column dedicated to an image.
>
I do not know, Rich. Despite 1 css error and 38 markup errors, whatever 
it is you've got now(I did not look at the code or markup, other than 
the body declaration) is working fairly well in XP and 
cross-browser..The 
page is only centered in IE. Adding margin: 0 auto; to the outermost 
container may do it for good browsers. You need a background-color on 
the body. Your page is fuchsia w/images disabled on my version of 
Opera(add html to the body declaration w/ a background color). You've 
got a 40px scroll bar at 800. The site functions with it, but you'll 
need to trim widths if you want to get rid of it.
Best,
~dL
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Re: [css-d] Two Column/Three Column Help

[Christian Montoya]

On 12/22/05, Richard Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I recently asked for help for this site:
> http://www.swmug.co.uk/
> I was advised that my maths skills were somewhat out! Anyway, I have
> been thinking and realised that I could have made the site two column
> and place the image that is in the left column within the content and
> set a padding.
>
> Please could I ask what would be the merits of creating:
> 1. Two column with background image and padding
> 2. Three column with a column dedicated to an image.

You do not want a column dedicated to an image. That's not semantic at all.

Just have the background image on the left column or the wrapper for
both columns, and yes, have padding. Beware of box model problems with
old browsers like IE 5: to avoid this, you can have a fixed width
wrapper with the background image, and an inner div with a left margin
equal to the background image and an auto width.

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