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simonjones
09-06-2007, 12:48 PM
I’d like to pick your brains, if I may?

In March I agreed to build a website for my sister’s business, and in doing so, I quickly realized my knowledge was left rather wanting. The first stupid thing I completely failed to consider was screen resolutions, and I constructed this site entirely around my own computer (1280x1024). It’s basically a table with an iframe, and the result in smaller resolutions, is, of course, an unnecessary amount of ugly scroll bars . . . as you can see: http://www.whitetara.co.uk/index.html

At the moment, having got a few days off work, I thought I’d re-address this issue, and have since built this: http://www.whitetara.co.uk/demo/index.html
This works (for me) in every resolution. However, the moment I start trying to create the menu, the height starts growing again.

If any of you have any ideas, please don’t by shy in sharing them with me. Thanks in advance.

Jon101
09-06-2007, 04:25 PM
the demo is basically just the background of the page?

simonjones
09-06-2007, 05:33 PM
Yeah, the demo is just the table (so far), into which I'm hoping to add an iframe, menus, etc.

Twey
09-06-2007, 05:37 PM
Don't use tables for layout, and don't use iframes for anything. You want two 100&#37;-width <div>s and a float in the middle.

Jon101
09-06-2007, 06:25 PM
Im with Twey, iframes are not the way to go.

simonjones
09-06-2007, 06:29 PM
OK, thank you. Please excuse my ignorance, but what's a "float"?

Twey
09-06-2007, 08:40 PM
An element with the float CSS property applied to it. You should probably read some tutorials (http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/).