Posted by Bergamot on 04/03/07 23:44

Justin Voelker wrote:
> On Apr 3, 1:03 pm, Bergamot <berga...@visi.com> wrote:
>> Justin Voelker wrote:
>>
>> >> > > >> My newest website,www.Base2WebDesign.com
>>
>> Look up "max-width".
>
> Berg, Thank you for your comments.

Justin, please post to the group. If you want a private consultation
with me, I'll have to bill you for it.

> I have it coded to always show the
> vertical bar (in Firefox) because I absolutely hate the page shift
> that happens when you go from a page that needs one to a page that
> doesn't.

I bet most users don't care. You could ask some if you really want to
know. Personally, I find the superfluous vertical scrollbar more
annoying. It makes me think there should be something farther down the
page so it looks broken when I don't find anything there.

> If you know of a better way to stop that page shift,

You can always just ignore it. ;)

> Next, I love the idea of a max-width but
> for some reason I recall that and min-width not working the same way
> in Firefox and IE.

IE7 supports max-width, though it isn't perfect. There are JavaScript
methods to get it to work in earlier versions. I'm sure a few minutes
searching google you'll find out how.

> Also on that topic, what do I do about the image
> that contains my slogan at the top?

Why should you do anything special there? The banner is not one big
graphic, but 2 separate ones on a solid color background.

> Also, what about the "contact us" form.

textarea {width:100%}

BTW, if you're really looking for best practices, you should stop with
all the divs and start using more semantic HTML. Using real heading
markup would be a good place to start, then list markup for the
navigation menu. See
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/

--
Berg

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