Posted by Nick on 11/09/07 10:41

On Nov 1, 1:49 am, Bergamot <berga...@visi.com> wrote:
> Nick wrote:
>
> > alternativeherbal.co.uk/example1.php
> > this page uses relative positioning
>
> > alternativeherbal.co.uk/example2.php
> > I've used the absolute positioning
>
> > What I needed to ask you if you think there is a way to make the three
> > boxes look like in example1, but using relative positoning instead.
>
> Why do you think you need to use relative positioning for this at all?
> Do you really understand what the different positioning methods are
> *supposed* to do? I suspect not.
>
> > PS View this in Fiorefox, not IE. I have found out that IE requires
> > totally different positioning coordinates when using relative
> > positioning,
>
> That should not be the case at all. If it is, then something in your
> design is probably broken. I glanced at your CSS but it is too hard to
> read. Getting rid of all the redundant styles, like font-family, would
> be a good place to start. Your stylesheet would also be more readable if
> you applied some formatting to it.
>
> > so I'll be using a different stylesheet for that,
>
> That would be fixing the wrong problem, I think.
>
> --
> Berg

I've now taken into consideration the advices on text size and I've
built a new version of index.php page, this is called
alternativeherbal.co.uk/newexperiment2.php while I'm testing it.

The font size is more readable, the use of tables is minimized, and
finally the same style sheet for <div> postioning seem to work equally
in IE7, Firefox2, and Opera (sorry I'm not able to test Safari on Mac
at the moment, but Mac user are welcome to let me know).

Also, the main advantage of this new layout is that if one goes to
enlarge the text size, there is no overlapping of the menu links for a
while.

But there is a new problem I am experiencing, whereas the problems of
enlarging the text size are minimized, if I use Zoom on IE7, the menu
links below the header looks strange: basically the font size doesn't
seem to change as much as the rest of the site, the spacing between
each word hyperlink suddenly disappears, and the background image also
disappears.

Could someone suggest me a quick fix for this? I really need to put
this site back working and start making money.

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