Help for a rookie in over her head

I'm a first-time Dreamweaver user working on a site for a nonprofit. I'm having
problems with positioning, especially in IE7. I am too new at this to
troubleshoot very effectively -- I'm hoping a patient person out there can look
at my site (which I'm testing out on my personal web space) and help me out.

The site is http://mysite.verizon.net/hamiltonal/index.html

One page I am also having trouble with in Firefox is
http://mysite.verizon.net/hamiltonal/contactus.html

Thanks for your help.

Alison

First off, you should not use spaces in your file/pathnames!

<td width="195"><h5><a href="word
files/Disclaimer.doc">Disclaimer</a></h5></td>
<img src="Images/jpegs and gifs/bbingo.jpg"

etc.

Then, try changing this -

<table width="780" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="8">

to this -

<table width="780" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="8">

and this -

<table width="780" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

to this -

<table width="780" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

You don't need those align attributes (they are restating the default
alignment), and in fact, having them there is causing you this problem.

Similarly, on your other page, remove all instances of 'align="left"' from
your code.

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Adobe Community Expert
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"alisonmsw" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I'm a first-time Dreamweaver user working on a site for a nonprofit. I'm
having
problems with positioning, especially in IE7. I am too new at this to
troubleshoot very effectively -- I'm hoping a patient person out there can
look
at my site (which I'm testing out on my personal web space) and help me
out.

The site is http://mysite.verizon.net/hamiltonal/index.html

One page I am also having trouble with in Firefox is
http://mysite.verizon.net/hamiltonal/contactus.html

Thanks for your help.

Alison

Yea...and Murray forgot to tell you that the next time you post, put a
descriptive message in the subject line...


"Murray *ACE*" <forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote

First off, you should not use spaces in your file/pathnames!

td width="195"><h5><a href="word
files/Disclaimer.doc">Disclaimer</a></h5></td
img src="Images/jpegs and gifs/bbingo.jpg"

etc.

Then, try changing this -

table width="780" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="8"

to this -

table width="780" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="8"

and this -

table width="780" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0"

to this -

table width="780" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"

You don't need those align attributes (they are restating the default
alignment), and in fact, having them there is causing you this problem.

Similarly, on your other page, remove all instances of 'align="left"' from
your code.

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
==================


"alisonmsw" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:gnc55o$avs$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
I'm a first-time Dreamweaver user working on a site for a nonprofit. I'm
having
problems with positioning, especially in IE7. I am too new at this to
troubleshoot very effectively -- I'm hoping a patient person out there
can look
at my site (which I'm testing out on my personal web space) and help me
out.

The site is http://mysite.verizon.net/hamiltonal/index.html

One page I am also having trouble with in Firefox is
http://mysite.verizon.net/hamiltonal/contactus.html

Thanks for your help.

Alison

I'm trying to pull up screenshots of what you are seeing on the first page. I
don't seem to see what the position issues are, but I am hoping a screenshot
will tell me.

With the second page start with the validator: http://validator.w3.org/
All tags should be named in lower case. Break tags need to be written as <br
/> in XHTML which you are using, instead of <br> which you currently have. You
have tags throughout the page which have closing tags but no opening (ie: </p>
without a <p> before it). So if you fix those errors I believe that page
should be better.

While I am waiting on screenshots to be made, can you state whether the
positioning issues are related to the content like on the second page, or if
they relate to the Spry because those are two separate issues if they exist.

It's a 'float-drop' problem. Having the align="left" is functionally
equivalent to floating the element.

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"SnakEyez02" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I'm trying to pull up screenshots of what you are seeing on the first
page. I
don't seem to see what the position issues are, but I am hoping a
screenshot
will tell me.

With the second page start with the validator: http://validator.w3.org/
All tags should be named in lower case. Break tags need to be written as
br
/> in XHTML which you are using, instead of <br> which you currently have.
You
have tags throughout the page which have closing tags but no opening (ie:
/p
without a <p> before it). So if you fix those errors I believe that page
should be better.

While I am waiting on screenshots to be made, can you state whether the
positioning issues are related to the content like on the second page, or
if
they relate to the Spry because those are two separate issues if they
exist.