Posted by dorayme on 06/14/06 01:10

In article <ksOdnbK1HsQwyxLZnZ2dnUVZ_r6dnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Ed Mulroy" <dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket> wrote:

> http://home.nc.rr.com/emulroy/theshore.htm

You are being far too complicated.

Get rid of

<table align="left" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" width="22%">

and try

<table style="float:left">

for your left nav (then go on, if you have time, to be rid of the
table altogether and make it a list as has been rightly said. In
which case you could float the list left with something like <ul
style="float:left"> etc

Then be rid of

<table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
width="70%">

and put

<table>

and it will immediately look better. Stop trying to constrain the
cell widths. the magic of tables is that they expand to hold the
contents.

But the tables for the right content are just too bad for words
and I will stop now.

If you don't want to get into floats and stuff, make the whole
thing one big table, the nav in the left col, the content in the
right col. And if you can't be rid of tables for the right col,
at least make a simple one with as few instructions to it as
possible. It will be the better for it.

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dorayme

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