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Posted by John Hosking on 02/15/07 02:36
ilan wrote:
> Here is my problem. Whilst I can make sense of coding to a degree, I
> am by no means a pro. Also, one big problem that I have is that
> because I am using a CMS I really only have control over the htlm that
> dictates how the section of the homepage with a white background
> behaves. Incase that's not clear, it is the section between the orange
> menu at the top and the green bar at the bottom.
Your problems start before (outside of) that section. You'd want to make
that white section wider (but then the green part above would be too
narrow) or the sunset image narrower.
>
> I guess what I want to know is; just by editing that section, is it
> possible to fix it up so it will still look the same in IE, and get it
> looking at least reasonable in Firefox. In the code that I have access
> to edit, it looks fairly innocent - i.e. it is tables, links, images,
> etc, and I can't really see any control over things like CSS. I also
> unfortunately have no idea what 4.0 and 4.01 are, and also don't know
> what Strict or Transitional is.
It has to do with the doctype at the beginning of your HTML page (which
you may or may not have the ability to view in your CMS. It's actually
not your biggest problem.
> [...]I really just want to know if there is any type
> of a rescue job I can do to salvage those people viewing in Firefox to
> some degree.
Salvage, huh? Hmmm[1]. Well, you might try changing one of the widths to
be obstinately large (and specific) as for example:
<td id="Module93_TDHTML" class="clsnormal" width="100%">
<table style="width: 735px; height: 34px;"
^^^^^
This would force one part of your content (a table I picked at
semi-random) to be larger than Firefox is currently trying to render it.
With bigger content inside (and inside your sphere of influence), FF
will (apparently) expand the outer table(s) with results somewhat like
those you seek.
But BE WARNED:
It's tested only in FF (quickly) and not IE 6 or 7;
Will not necessarily be flexible when visitors use different font sizes;
Will be a mystery value after next week when you or somebody else wants
to change something on the page;
Will mask (somewhat) yet not actually heal the multitudinous problems on
the page, for which you should (brace yourself!) either start over,
without the CMS; get professional (or at least experienced) assistance;
or both.
Good luck, Ilan!
[1] Like Travis McGee, I expect half of the proceeds of whatever we
salvage. Except, uh, I don't really want any of that code. ;-)
--
John
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