Cheryl, I always have a had time grasping the concept of <td> and get confused easily by it. One thing I'm realizing is how rusty I am with all this. I know web designers hate NN 4.X but a lot of users really like it still. Oh hell, I think some of us just don't like change. I see a browser as a tool and if it ain't broke I don't have any inclination to fix it. Appallingly, sometimes I go to pages where the stuff is all over the place and I just don't care. I now know it's because the page wasn't designed for my browser but as long as I can find the information in the text somewhere on the page I really don't care what the page looks like. But I'm a text-oriented research person and it's not surprising it's taken me this long to toss some pix onto the site and then only after some judicious carping from a board member. It's easy for the web site to get lost in the demands of my overall job.
The missing </td> tags created most of the havoc on that page. It amazed me to put it in andt hen watch the picture or text move right to where I wanted it. Some of it is still kind of butt ugly with too much white space but I'm not going to fuss with that now. I miss the days of literal cut and paste (sticky wax) of paste up and layout for offset printing. I love many aspects of digital life but could live without others. I read your style directions and noticed you define the font size in ems. Just once per page, I notice. That's nice. I agree the black on white is easier to read. My agency wants to keep to the dark green and white, though. I think we're going to revisit the whole site soon and I can do a couple of example pages with black text and see what the members think. When I first put the site up we set up a laptop in the board room and only one or two people looked at it. I left justified the bottom links within their cell of the table (uh, once I managed to find it). That justification's a leftover from desktop publishing, it's what you'd do in a newsletter so it looks "out there in space" to me whenever I center it. I'd love to take a course in basic principles of design soon. I only have ONE folder for images. I put the text of the test page into a separate folder marked "test" but didn't do anything special to tell the page where to find the images. I was happy it found them by itself. The page is now on the server out of the "test" folder and with all its mates in the main site. The images continue in their usual folder. Though it looks messy to have those ../s in the code, it seems to work that way; but when I took the ../ out of the code when the page was still in the "test" folder it didn't work at all. At least now I'll know what those ../s are next time I see them. I joined the HTML Writer's Guild when it first started, tried to anyway, but never heard back from them. I'll have to join again. I should find a DW user's group also. Soon. Thank you for your help. Sherry "Cheryl D. Wise" wrote: > Sherry, > You're right that it does look different in NN 4.x which I didn't check in > since I absolutely hate that browser and will be glad when it is no longer > even an after though to web design. > > I did check it in NN 6.2 & Mozilla which are much more standards compliant. > To fix what I originally did so it will appear more like other browsers in > NN 4.x. I did the following > > Okay, I put the vertical-align in both the tr & td definition to have it top > align. Compliant browsers use the tr tag while NN 4 uses the td tag. It > appears that NN 'td' inheritance bug also effects text color by adding it to > the td tag description text is now green. Personally I think it is easier to > read when it is black but it isn't my site. > > You can see the revised version at > http://wiserways.net/sherry/index1.htm. As you can tell from the paragraph > above the problems were pretty easy to fix. There is a slight issue with 2 > of the pictures but it appears in all browsers and it could probably be > fixed by playing with margins and/or padding. > > I took out the left justified links because they didn't work correctly in IE > which is the majority browser out there and to fix it would have required a > lot of messing with code to find out which nesting error was causing the > problem. Besides they are just as accessible in the center > and look like they belong there instead of being an after though. > > Btw, the ../ are a relative path information and when you remove them then > the browser is looking in the wrong location for files. ../ takes it up one > level while ../images takes it up one level then over to the image folder if > that makes any sense. > > You might try the HTML Writer's Guild for some online classes at fairly > reasonable prices. They have a intro to Dreamweaver's class starting this > week (join if you decide to take a class the difference in class price more > than makes up for the membership fee). ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:wdvltalk-join@;lists.wdvl.com Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
