Web design Question

Many Web sites have content centered in the page and it does not matter what the visitor\'s resolution is the content is centered and any extra space is usually filled with a solid color or pattern

examples:
http://www.nypl.org
http://www.lapl.org

how is this achieved i just want pointed in the right direction.

Originally posted by Richard
Many Web sites have content centered in the page and it does not matter what the visitor\'s resolution is the content is centered and any extra space is usually filled with a solid color or pattern

examples:
http://www.nypl.org
http://www.lapl.org

how is this achieved i just want pointed in the right direction.

Learn here: http://www.w3schools.com/

The background (color, pattern, etc) is set in your [body] tag, and the content is placed in a which you can center by putting align="center" in your table tag.

I think those are right, I haven\'t played with HTML in a while.  I think there are a couple HTML savvy people here so they can probably help you out more.

I didn\'t know we could use HTML code in here!

Looks at the bottom

I see it now, duh.

hes is right they are just using a table...

I don\'t think it\'s a table... look at the source.  Any more ideas?

^^^Forget what the source says. It is done with tables.

did you even look at the source??

begin main navigation

div id="mainnav"
   
begin main nav table

table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0"

Could be declared in CSS but this is what I see:

#masterdiv {
   width: 800px;   /* IE5.x/Win width hack */
   voice-family: "\\"}\\"";
   voice-family: inherit;
   width: 780px;   /* This is the correct value */
}
html>body #masterdiv {
   width: 780px;
}

nothing about alignment, weird.

The 2nd link is easy:

<div align="center">

<table width="750" border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0">

cyrus ah good job.  How is the logo centered though?  Mainnav is just for the links underneath the logo.

edit- either way Richard an easy way is to make a main table for EVERYTHING to go in and label it like this:

<table align=center >

That\'ll work but I\'d rather do it in CSS because it\'s neater.

the logo is centered in a table also just in the code is all mixed up in differnt place because the whole thing is done as some sort or image slicer for the rollovers

[MPTheory]

Originally posted by Cyrus
the logo is centered in a table also just in the code is all mixed up in differnt place because the whole thing is done as some sort or image slicer for the rollovers

Ahh yes.  Its actually very easy to do... you can make a quazi-liquid design very easy with a centered table set at 800 x 600

a lot of the inexpensive sites I make are done that way mainly because it looks decent and is very quick.  making a full liquid design and still keeping it look the way you want it to can me more of a pain in the ass... Hey Cy, have you had any luck making sites with nothing but layers?  I did a small one a while back.. it was fun to do but took a long time to get it right.. some browsers still dont like it all that much.

Actually you MAC bastard.. The new version of frontpage just came out with the layer ability so i have just now started using it.

I am a super noob when it comes to html, I was wondering if you guys could tell me how the hell can I organize the pictures on my page so you don\'t have to scroll all the way to the right.

1)http://www.nd.edu/~dlewis3
2)Click "SummerPicsHere!.txt"

[MPTheory]

Try this. you can just copy the code for each table inside the main table for as many pics as you want. I just made each table 580px wide, so you would need to adjust to whatever size your images are, or resize your images of course...

 
   
 

quote this to get the source code

[MPTheory]

Originally posted by Cyrus
Actually you MAC bastard.. The new version of frontpage just came out with the layer ability so i have just now started using it.

I still think your insane for using frontpage haha.

Originally posted by MPTheory
what web software are you working with?

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