Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 06/24/07 08:50

On 2007-06-24, Ginae wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2:22 am, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2007-06-24, Ginae wrote:
>> > Okay, people...please...I am sooo stuck...
>>
>> > My tables are ALL JACKED UP...
>>
>> That's what you get for using tables for layout.
>>
>> On hover, the links are illegible (blue on black).
>>
>> You have flush-right text (which is hard to read), without any
>> margins (which makes it even harder).
>>
>> If this is a new page, why are you using a transitional doctype?
>>
>> > There is supposed to be about a 300x900 header image in the top cell
>> > of every table and it is not manifesting...
>>
>> Does the image exist where is is supposed to be?
>>
>> > ON the index file...that column on the right is NOT supposed to be
>> > that small...i've tried to embiggen the parameters, to no avail..
>>
>> Which column? The one with text, or the one to the right of that?
>>
>> Before you do anything else, make the page valid HTML 4.01 Strict
>> (it doesn't even validate with the transitional doctype).

[two replies merged into one, with top posting fixed (but it would be
better interspersed with the previous post)]

> Thanks so much and you are waaayyyyy over my head...
> What is this validating business? Are you referring to the doctype?

<http://validator.w3.org/>

> And, no. The image does not populate...

There's no header.jpg in your images directory.

> The column with the rambling text is entirely too narrow...why? I do
> not know

You gave it a width of 100 pixels:
<td bgcolor="white" align="right" width="100">

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