Re: Any HTML Guru's available to look at this code?

If anyone can help, my correct address is thrillinglife (AT) gmail (DOT) com


"BAF" <purchase (AT) voicenet (DOT) com> wrote

Problem:

Main site index file (a weblog) is a table layout with just two columns.
Left (grey) column, and main blog blog (white) right column.

Essentially the same index code is used on the same site for a separate
photoblog.

The alignment between the two cells of the main table aren't the same
between the two pages. In the main site index page, the margins of the
blog content in the white side of the table don't come close to the split
between the two table cells. This is best seen in the alignment
differences between the yellow-background date lines.

KEEP IN MIND: The background graphic creates the false-colored table cells
grey/white...so pay no attention to that for actual HTML measurements.

ACK! I've just spent about 3 hours looking this over again and again...no
avail. I'm guessing I'm overlooking something really stupid...can anyone
help?

Main site: http://www.blueroomlounge.com/index.php (note the blog margin
nowhere near the actual split)
Photoblog: http://www.blueroomlounge.com/index.html (lines up nicely;
date bar and <hr> line are evenly split and line up well to the cell
borders)

BAF wrote:

If anyone can help, my correct address is thrillinglife (AT) gmail (DOT) com


"BAF" <purchase (AT) voicenet (DOT) com> wrote

Problem:

Main site index file (a weblog) is a table layout with just two columns.
Left (grey) column, and main blog blog (white) right column.

Essentially the same index code is used on the same site for a separate
photoblog.

The alignment between the two cells of the main table aren't the same
between the two pages. In the main site index page, the margins of the
blog content in the white side of the table don't come close to the split
between the two table cells. This is best seen in the alignment
differences between the yellow-background date lines.

KEEP IN MIND: The background graphic creates the false-colored table
cells grey/white...so pay no attention to that for actual HTML
measurements.

ACK! I've just spent about 3 hours looking this over again and
again...no
avail. I'm guessing I'm overlooking something really stupid...can anyone
help?

Main site: http://www.blueroomlounge.com/index.php (note the blog margin
nowhere near the actual split)
Photoblog: http://www.blueroomlounge.com/index.html (lines up nicely;
date bar and <hr> line are evenly split and line up well to the cell
borders)

When I try to access index.html I keep getting redirected into index.php, so
I naturally can't see any difference.

In general, what *you're* seeing *might* be related to the following kinds
of markup from your site:
<table width="750" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
and
<tr>
<td width="172" class="dhtmlmenubar">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="578" class="dhtmlmenubar">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
These markup snippets from your page use old style width, align,
cellpadding, and cellspacing.
I suggest you get *all* display markup into CSS.
Get rid of the fixed width on the right cell so the window can flow -- just
don't set that width.

I really don't object to a simple table like this with just two cells, but a
better solution would be to adapt the 2 column template from
http://www.realworldstyle.com
....or a similar template. I realize your blog software may be writing a lot
of your pages, so this may not be possible, but do it if you can.
--
mbstevens http://www.mbstevens.com