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Topic: Troubles on the Web Design Front...
started by: whiskey@throttle

Posted by whiskey@throttle on Apr. 10 2001,18:06

Damnit.

I seem to have run into a few snags in my web design. I know a lot of you are little web gurus, so perhaps you can lend me some of your knowledge. I would be most grateful.

Okay, where do I begin? ...

I'm having a problem getting everything to be centered correctly for the typical browser, so that it's always centered during resize. Currently, I have this page set to 800X600 on autosize (with spacer images), but it < comes out like this > instead.

I made a pop-up menu in Fireworks, and followed the intstructions to export the HTML. In Fireworks, the pop-up menu looks perfect when I preview it with my browser. However, when I open it in Dreamweaver, everything gets screwed up: the drop-down menu goes *above* the original menu button, and the colors are screwed up when the mouse gets passed over them.

Why is this? Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Thanks in advance!

Posted by DeadAnztac on Apr. 10 2001,18:16

I'm not sure about the macromedia stuff, but centering stuff is easy, just make the table be only as big as it has to be then in the body surround the table with either <CENTER> tag's or <DIV align=center> </DIV>

That works well

Posted by whiskey@throttle on Apr. 10 2001,19:26

Okay...but will that still work when the browser is resized?

Off to try...

(thanks, btw)

Posted by Xenoflargactian on Apr. 10 2001,20:14

i used to know some javascript, but i dun remember anymore. maybe u could have something like image.left=(browser.width-image.width)/2

i think thats some of my VB talking...uhh.. hehe

Posted by shiznit on Apr. 10 2001,20:51

What I usually do is make a table with width and hight both set to 100\%. Then virticle align gets set to middle (valign=middle). This will put your content or whatever in the middle of the page no matter what the dimensions.

This message has been edited by shiznit on April 11, 2001 at 03:52 PM

Posted by whiskey@throttle on Apr. 10 2001,21:18

You'd think that two programs, made by the same respectable software company (and bundled together as one product, to boot) would be frickin' export/import compatible...

But noooooo....

I follow the instructions in both DW and FWRKS perfectly, and it still doesn't work right. How annoying is that?

p.s. - thanks for the centering advice, though

p.p.s. - if anyone knows where I can find an answer regarding my little problem please point me in that direction.

Posted by DeadAnztac on Apr. 10 2001,21:58

< http://www.devshed.com/ > ?

That place rules That's where I learned everything from PHP sessions to CSS style sheets and layer manipulation, they cover everything you need to know, even if your using some pokey macromedia trash I think they'd have your answer, if not search on dmoz.org

Posted by Unexplained on Apr. 11 2001,08:22

Guess you just don't got what it takes to be l33t0.

Why don't you < RTFM > and after that do some more < RTFM >?

Posted by damage on Apr. 11 2001,13:49

WOW. Unexplained's got a death wish.

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-Narrator 'Fight Club.'

Posted by Unexplained on Apr. 11 2001,15:00

quote:
Originally posted by damage:
WOW. Unexplained's got a death wish.

SPANK ME BABY!

Posted by Unexplained on Apr. 11 2001,18:09

quote:
Originally posted by SLATE:
asl?

18 years old, male, live in Rotterdam (the Netherlands)
Is that OK with you? Will you spank me bad?

But that's quite off-topic...contact me on ICQ (47515512)

Posted by SiLVeR54 on Apr. 11 2001,18:15

quote:
Originally Posted By Unexplained:
Rotterdam

haha, Rotterdam... just like cs

silv

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Posted by DeadAnztac on Apr. 11 2001,20:16

...wonder why he reposted my link to devshed....

Anywayz, I'm sure you could find something realated to what you need to do with that Macromedia sh1t at < dmoz.org >. Just search for it, and good luck

Posted by Rhydant on Apr. 11 2001,20:45

< HTML Goodies >
this is a great place. it helps me alot when i need something done.

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Posted by SLATE on Apr. 12 2001,05:19

quote:
Originally posted by Unexplained:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by damage:
[b]WOW. Unexplained's got a death wish.

SPANK ME BABY!

[/B][/QUOTE]

asl?

hahahahaha
ok
"my bad"

Posted by just_dave on Apr. 12 2001,05:31

humm I dont know how to help i just use flash?

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Posted by pengu1nn on Apr. 12 2001,05:40

it would be easier to help if we could see the source. in other words give us a link not a jpg

Posted by whiskey@throttle on Apr. 12 2001,15:29

Thanks for the links. It's all fixed for now: the beta site's up while I make the next version.

But, of course, it's not that simple.

When I started on this project, my company (the first factory distributorship of one division of a multi-billion dollar company) said, "just make it." The gave a disinterested okay towards my creative liberty. So I began working.

Considering our psuedo-independent, small-fry position in the overall corporation, we usually get to do things our way (i,e - making a website on our own without having to go through the laughable "Internet Core Team" back East, designing our own publications without approval, etc).

However, after hours and hours of work, I am told the logo I created is, "a big problem."

Fuck this shit. I fucking hate working for big, tight-ass companies. I'm going to go sniff some white-out and pass out on my desk.

Posted by askheaves on Apr. 12 2001,16:32

I'm in the same situation. 3 Billion Dollar company, and we have 8 people out here in Tucson working on a skunkworks project. We don't have our own budget, we are under the corporate IT thumb. We have frame relay to a T1 line... they only have 2 entry points into the corporation, so 1500 people have to share the T1 pipe in Michigan, and the T3 in Pennsylvania. One basic priciple of Networking is that when you go through one place, and back out, you cut your effective bandwidth in half.

I probably shouldn't talk too much about our network structure, but we are WAY against the grain out here. I want to completely untether from the company, but it just isn't easy. We can't run a webserver since we're not actually connected to the internet. We are filtered at the company level. It's the most annoying thing ever. I just want to have nothing to do with the rest of the company technology wise.