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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 06/07/06 20:04
Stuart Palmer wrote:
> Appriciate all your comments, however, the question wasn't 'was it right to
> do it' but 'how to do it'.
>
> I have a way to do it using a mixture of tables but from reading other
> websites I have the understanding that it's best to use tables only for
> tabular information, this is why I asked the question.
Sorry, not a help desk. If members feel the question is wrong then your
will get info as to why.
>
> Regarding why I want to have content in a 760px area, most of my visitors
> have 800x600 and 1024x768 resolution, therefore the small percentage that
> have different resolution As long as the data is there to read and the text
> is resizable then I am happy.
And you collected this data how? Everyone who visits ALWAYS has the
browser maximized? I almost never do, since modern OS allow multitasking
and large monitors have become affordable.
>
> The design I have chosen will not work very well on a screen at 320
> resolution and/or 1280 as my user base doesn't warrant this - this design is
> my choice, it may not be yours but that's life. Consider a page that only
> has a couple of paragraphs, this would look o.k on a 760 wide content space,
> but having this run up to 1240 would make the page, and design look silly. I
> try to achieve content that is informative to the users requirement but also
> visually pleasing.
Here is a good question for your, what if your visitor ups their
font-size? What will happen to your 760px static design?
> I also appriciate that people on newsgroups tend to know far more on topics
> than others, however, advising people and complaining to people who are
> asking for help are two different things. For example a url was asked for
> what I want to achieve and indeed I supplied a url to explain what i am
> trying to do, however, I then got slagged off becuase I did as requested
> because the site I chose to show uses cookies, I provided this to enable you
> to help me, if you are not willing to help I would appriciate if you didn't
> reply to my posts.
> If it is obvious someone doesn't understand a topic, then please exaplin and
> advise, if it's not the best way to do a task - fine, explain why and how to
> do it better, but offending people doesn't do you any favours and doesn't
> get my question answered.
>
> Thanks for any constructive help that can be offered to assist in resolving
> my problem. If the solution is to do a mixture of tables and divs then
> excellent, I have a solution already and I apologise for posting on here.
It is actually more constructive than you realize....
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Jonathan
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