Posted by Jeremy Brown on 11/22/17 11:49

Just an informational response:

>This is (almost) never a good idea. It's the web equivalent of the old
>DTP tricks for spacing things out by putting empty whitespace elements
>everywhere.

That is why I wish to do. I have eliminated a ton of older styles in the
markup. I have elimanted almost all of the depreciated tags on all of the
pages on my site. I have switched just about all formatting to my style
sheet.

>If you want [A} and [C] to be presented with some white space between
>them, then use CSS and bigger margins (probably margin-top on [C]) to
>set it. Don't create a [B] element just to sit between them - it's
>just not needed.

This is the kind of information I need. Sometimes the simple solution often
eludes us. I honestly would not have thought to use the margin functions in
my CSS since I am still learning how to utilize it to its full potential.

>I doubt you need to, nor should, use a table here -- but that's a separate
>issue.

The artwork is 5 separate elements, not one. I know you can do that using a
single image with coordinate mapping and there are other ways, but that is
not how I wish to do so. The table works rather well in doing what I wish to
do.

>In general, your markup wants an overall make-over. It's pretty much
>1997 style, only in XHTML.

>Lose the frames.
>Lose the HTML 3.2 coding style.
>Lose the Transitional doctype.
>Lose the <table>s
>Lose the rainbow bullets.
>Lose the frames.

>The XHTML is OK, although many people will proceed to tell you it's wrong.

1. I am going to dump the frames as soon as I learn how to layout the site
fully in CSS. (see #3)
2. Please read my home page in regards to my HTML skills- I am still
learning how to do it, hence it isn't beautifully typed up. I am typing all
of this out in Notepad, and the way I type lets me read it and know what I
looking at while I work on it.
3. I actually have a version of my site that is Strict, but it does not look
the way I want it to yet. (see #1)
4. The frames do what I want, they validate in Transitional & Strict and I
like the look.
5. How I design may page is not really the point here, I simply want to
learn HTML and have some fun doing so. I like the way my site looks. It is
amateurish because that what it is- an amateur HTML coder presenting his
amateur automotive skills on a personal web page. I am sure that some time
in the future I will bring the site into the 21st century, maybe 2002 or
2003, until then the layout stays- rainbow icons and all.
6. See #1 & #3

All this said, why did you need to critique my whole site when I only asked
a question about an XHTML tag?

Jeremy


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