HTML - Questions Regarding Layouts
Hi everyone. I'd like people's opinion on something. That something being layout design, or more specifically, width.
When designing your website layouts, what width do you optimise your site for? Which technique do you find works best? I have had a tendency to make sites that are centered in the browser window and are optimised for 800px width screens, usually setting up the layout to be 788px wide, allowing 12px for a scrollbar if required. Another technique I have considered is the so-called Holy Grail liquid layout. With larger screens and half decent graphics cards now a lot cheaper than in the past, do you still optimise based on a 800x600 resolution, or 1024x768? I guess it can depend on the website's target audience as to how it is designed. For instance, a website aimed at a target audience of the elderly or younger children would need to have an easier to follow layout with larger text etc on screen. What are your thoughts on this? Similar TutorialsJust before I start, I want to say I'm a total beginner, and don't reallu understand much about HTML and things. For my website, I want a new layout, and I usually download one from DayDream Graphics. But, my old layout was really annoying, as when I wanted to change something on the navigation or side bar, I would have to change the HTML on every page. I know with a lot of other layouts, that when you want to change the side bar, you can just change one thing, and it'll change on everyother page. That's because the side bar is on a different page (I think it might be in the style or something), apposed to the main body of my index. I really want a layout like this, but I don't know what sort of layout to get. Did anything I say just make sense to you, if so please help me! For example, this is the kind of layout that has what I'm talking about. - http://www.collybird.net/alist (The page may take a while to load!) Hey, I have made a layout in Photoshop CS3, and would like to start coding it into a website. Anyone have a tutorials that they can point me to inorder to achieve this? Cheers. -JT Hello, Lately I've been getting more into HTML/CSS, but I have a problem. What I'm trying to do is make the website the same size on every browser window / resolution. I have heard Fluid Layouts does the trick, however I have not clue how to do that. I've tried going by tutorials, but no one really explains it step by step. What I was wondering if anyone has a link to a "Video Tutorial" on learning how to do Fluid Layouts, or if anyone knows a different way to accomplish this. Thank you Hi I want to give the visitors the option to view a layout of their choice when they enter my site can someone tell me how to do this please but instead of basically making 3 sites for 3 lots of HTML which is useless when i can do something simpler in just one go if this makes sense thanx I want it to be like so: first page visitors see will have previews of the layouts they click one then for the rest of the site that's there layout i dont want them to enter and be able to choose a different one while browsing the rest of the site with like a banner at the top of the page with the different layout options I have made 3 layouts for 3 headers Hi I hope someone can help me here, please view my site at www.sydneycivilcelebrant.com/divsite/index.html - when I zoom in or out using ie, the layout becomes all out of order, yet when I do it in firefox its fine. viewing the site with chrome or safari doesnt work yet as im still trying to figure out the css for both sets of browsers, but any help you could afford would be greatly apreciated! thanks Hello guys and girls! I'm currently working on a Web Design assignment for College, and I'm having a hard time trying to find the second way of building a lay out using HTML. We have done the table way of doing it, and I have got that way down, but i can't find out the other way. Could you guys maybe give me a little help, or at least a push in the right direction? Thank you! Recently one heck of a lot of stuff about why you should use tabless layouts, but I have yet to find any reason to use tabless layouts, apart from their fashionable and W3C say so. However I have found several not to use them. Let me start with a plain simple myth about: Tabless layouts are more browser compatibly. Right? I frequently seen Mozilla Firefox, and IE process tabless layouts in quite different ways. Yet every time I have seen a table based layout, virtual browser has processed it exactly the same. The only exception I have seen is a percentage height on a table. Conitinuing on: Positioning Also has anyone here found with nested div's, a reliable way of positioning a nested div and still keeping firmly fixed to the parent? Ok, you can use the absolute position and make sure the div is within the area of the parent, what happens if you move or resize the parent div? I have yet to find of way of making sure the child stay in a position relative to is parent, apart from not using positioing at all. If their is a way of reliably positioning a div relative to its parent, then I would be very glad to know. Fixing a 'div' to another div. Secondly, if you got a multiple column layout, without using JS, I yet to see a way of fixing two or more divs to together to make sure that they are always the same height. With a table layout, you just had three columns in the table, and they will be fixed together, no faffing about Overflowing Content. Anyone here ever had a content div nested in a parent div, What happens when the content divs hot taller than the parent. In a very large number of setups, the contents of the content will flow straight out the parent. To sort the problem out you resize the parent. With a table, whats in the table stays in the table. I have yet to see it happen any other way. This is how things are my experience, I have yet to see any article that tells any way of doing that completely avoids all of these problems. If you know a way of avoiding these problems please, if not, and I ask the question, what is the practical point of tableless layouts? i recently learned html, still a n00b though, lol i made a layout, which im proud of but i wanna know how to make a layout changer, which i can pput as a topic and have links, when ppl click them, the layout changes, and u can always chnge it bak to the original or something else mind helping me out? Ok so here I am yet again with another mess on my hands. I know tables are tales of yore so I have recently dived into the world of divs. Well now I find myself with a coding issue that I could easily achieve with a table no problem. If I was using a table I could set a BG image and then I could put text over the image or another transparent image over that. I am wanting to achieve the same effect but with divs. If I am not mistaken all I have to do is create a div and float another div on top of that div however this I am finding is not as easy for the CSS beginner. Mind you I am not new to programming. So how is it done? here is a link to the site I am working on DeeJayOctane I am wanting to put text on top of the image in the nav div. But yet again this alludes me for some odd reason. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks 1. Can I define two classes? For example: Code: <p class="one" class="two">Text...</p> 2. Can a class be defined as a number? For example: Code: <p class="1">Text...<p> Thanks. I am a new member and I was hoping someone could help me. I have looked for answers myself, but I havent come across them. Question 1- How do I add a Scroll Bar Box to left side to slip the page into 2 sections, and How to add Links to it? Question 2- How Do I make the Screen not move off the page? So the Bottom scrollbar does not show up. Ex. If I am using Internet Explorer, and I have my Favorites up, and I expand the box, It makes the screen smaller, But the website also gets smaller, but you can still see evrything. I Hope you guys can help me. Hello everyone. Tho i am a new user, i need help on this one. 1)Does anyone have or know a ready rating and commenting system code that you can just stick on your HTML page? 2)Anyone know where to get Dreamweaver CS1+ for a pretty low price? I hope i posted in the right section. Please help me out! Thanks in advance! 1. Is there any HTML code that can allow me to create a newsletter for my website. So people can sign up with it, then whenever I want to send one out I just fill in some form for the new letter then hit send and it will send to all the people who signed up. Is there any html code to do this, if so what is the code? 2. I would like a link or something to useful html codes that I could use for my website. Hi guys I don't know if I should be asking these question here not still here we go, 1. I want to add the login and out box from the forums to my website homepage How can I do that??? 2. I want to put that search box from the forums to website homepage as well so if some member/user search the website they get the results out of forums. I hope I explained good Please ask for more information if you need Thank You so much. Hello all! I just started a site and I have two questions that would really help me out. First - I have a news section on my website that I want people to be able to comment on. I have searched the web forever on this, but I want people to be able to click the comment section below the article which will redirect them to another page where they can add/view comments. I also want people to be able to see how many comments have been posted on the original article. Whats the best way of doing this? Second - I have a sidebar on my website that provides a quick link to an article that has been posted. Is there anyway I can make that sidebar once and reference throughout the other pages on my website so I don't have to update each individual page? Thanks in advance for your help. p.s. the website is http://www.socomfans.com This is my site currently ... www.fortheloveinc.com (please click to see what I am referring to) 1st Question ~ As you go from page to page on my site, you'll notice the annoying banner at the very top of the page. The site is hosted by godaddy.com, but there must be a way to remove that from my site. All the advertisements as well. Is it because I am temporarily using the free host option when you first purchase a domain do you think? Just wondering how I remove all of that off of my site. 2nd Question ~ I've been using Photoshop, for the graphics on my site (the headers, and the clickable links). I would like to be able to fill my site, from side to side, and from top to bottom. How do I do this using html? Basically make use of the whole page, instead of just little portions of it. Thank you and I'm hoping y'all can help me out with these questions. Much appreciated. 01:: object won't touch the top of the page:: On my site, www.subliminalmusic.co.nr, I got a flash mp3 player in a frame at the top.. but, for some reason, the mp3 player won't touch the very top of the page. I want it where the mp3 player touches the very top of the page and is fixed in place instead of having a scroll bar on the right. 02:: how do you make frame1 close when frame2 browses off of the original domain?:: I'm wondering if it's possible to make my top frame, with the mp3 player in it, close whenever I go to an off-site link in the bottom frame? Where the top frame stays put whenever I browse my own site, but closes whenever I go to another website. It seems logical that I could make a list of safe-urls, or whatever.. something like.. where the top frame can recognize what's in the bottom frame.. and there'd be a list of urls in the code somewhere. If the url in the bottom frame isn't in the list of urls mentioned in the code, then the top frame closes. Is that possible? If so, can you tell me how to do it or point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance! -Anthony- In preparing to learn in-depth info about DW and all the terms that come with web designing: What exactly does the term slide toggle mean? I came across this term, in one of the threads, and googled it but still did not understand the term. I was suprised to see that DW has a few critics out there. With each type of programming language, I gather that there are pro's and con's for each but specifically, what are the con's to DW? I invested in CS5 and I am looking forward to working with php and MySQL in conjunction with DW. Thank you in advance! |