Dreamweaver - pages move and cell expand

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pages move and cell expand

tdorey

2004-04-06, 4:31 am

I am having a problem with DW. I have created a few basic pages and made them
exactly the same, however for some reason all of them never look the same. As
I navigate through they tend to shift right or left just a pixel or two.

It seems to happen more when one page has a short amount of text and the next
one has text that you need to scroll to.

Also, this causes cells to streach creating spaces etc. Both of these sites
have the probelm. The page changers are very small so you have to go back and
forth betwwn pages.

http://www.imagecosmeticlaser.com
http://www.footprintagency.com

Any help would be great.

tdorey

2004-04-06, 4:32 am

It is all tables. Freak thing? Thanks for looking at it though.

It just seems to be strange that DW can't correct this or I can't see where I
have gone wrong. It makes the pages look bad. The navigation on the IMAGE
site actuall breaks up when you click on procedures.

Anyone elese have any sugjestions?

steveo23

2004-04-06, 4:33 am

I like the hot chick ;-), any way I see what you mean, How did you set up the
site via: slices, Layers, Tables and any thing else... Other wise I would just
check to see if everything is "Center" or "left" or what ever you have it, I
think my site does the same thing so It might just be one of thoes freak things.

Nadia

2004-04-06, 4:33 am

Firstly I would get out of layout mode - it is causing the problems you are
seeing. You are better to learn some basic html and build the table
structure yourself.

The best way to lay this out would be to have one table to hold your header
images and then a second table under the header table.

This 2nd table should have 2 columns.

Inside the first (left) column you would insert a nested table with x
rows - to hold each of your menu buttons. The right cell would be for your
content. (nested table structure - if you want to do a bit of searching on
this term for more info).

Then you could enter as much information into the right column (content
area) as you wish without the left menu column 'stretching' as the right
side gets long.

Just ensure that you have the cell alignment for the left column set to
'top' so that the menu buttons stay at the top of the page as your content
area increases in length.

Hope this helps :)

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"tdorey" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I am having a problem with DW. I have created a few basic pages and made
them
> exactly the same, however for some reason all of them never look the
same. As
> I navigate through they tend to shift right or left just a pixel or two.
>
> It seems to happen more when one page has a short amount of text and the
next
> one has text that you need to scroll to.
>
> Also, this causes cells to streach creating spaces etc. Both of these
sites
> have the probelm. The page changers are very small so you have to go
back and
> forth betwwn pages.
>
> http://www.imagecosmeticlaser.com
> http://www.footprintagency.com
>
> Any help would be great.
>

macinyart

2004-04-06, 4:34 am

Noticed the problem just as you described. Please check spelling microdermabration vs microdermabrasion. I think the latter is correct, but don't know about the first one? Cheers.

Murray *TMM*

2004-04-06, 9:31 am

Latter is correct. There is no such thing as abration! 8)

Be aware that dropping a vertical scrollbar can cause some browsers to shift
page content to the left (Netscape and Mozilla do this). 8(

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"macinyart" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Noticed the problem just as you described. Please check spelling
microdermabration vs microdermabrasion. I think the latter is correct, but
don't know about the first one? Cheers.

Nadia Perre

2004-04-06, 5:40 pm

"tdorey" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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| I will try making these changes.

Good to hear...

| What is the difference between, a "Nested Table" and a table that is
inserted inside another table? If any.

Same thing :-)

Good luck and post back if you encounter any problems.

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tdorey

2004-04-06, 5:40 pm

I will try making these changes.

What is the difference between, a "Nested Table" and a table that is inserted inside another table? If any.

Thanks again.