Posted by The Magician on 11/15/57 11:17

In article <d7hev5$4tp$1$830fa7a5@news.demon.co.uk>, dorward@yahoo.com says...
> The Magician wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your quick response David, but I went to those links, and
> > basically...it may have well been in Chinese. It's a bit deep for me.
> > As far as the template...I dunno if it's good, bad or indifferent...but
> > it's what I started creating the site with. Basically...in real simple
> > terms...is there a way to keep each of the "box's height"...the same exact
> > size on every page?
>
> Well, you can specify a height with the CSS height property, but then you
> need to use the overflow property to specify what to do when there isn't
> room in the box for the text. The only sensible option is to add
> scrollbars, and that's a terrible design. Users with nice large windows
> like not having to scroll as much, giving them a tiny box will annoy many
> of them.
>
> To complicate matters, overflow doesn't play nicely with table data cells,
> so if you continue abusing tables in the fashion you have to jump through
> more hoops too add meaningless extra markup to set the height and overflow
> on.
>
> > http://www.themagician8.com/Serenity/index4.htm
>
> http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.themagician8.com/Serenity/index4.htm
>
> > If what is needed is a CSS, can I make one from the pages that I've
> > already setup? How do I go about that?
>
> http://css.nu/pointers/index.html#Tutorials
>
>

Hmmm...oh well, guess it'll have to stay as is. But that HTML validator thingy said something about not being some kind of "doc type".
How do I fix that in Dreamweaver?
Again...even though I've had a website of my own up for a few years...your really dealing with a novice here.
None of the stuff on the validator made any sense to me really, except for I get a sense that the webpage needed some kind of html "dogtag" stating
it's a "regulation webpage that's had it's shots" or something similar to that. Yet I view it fine in my IE6 browser.
So what's the big deal...? It won't be viewable in a browser like...Mozilla or something?
Trust me...the target audience won' be using Mozilla, etc.
I'm not really a code geek, and I use an html editor. But since that page was a downloaded prefab, webpage template...
how would I go about adding the tags needed to make the pages "on the up & up"...?
Thanks again David. I do appreciate your help.

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