Posted by colin.steadman@gmail.com on 05/20/06 15:17

Hi Steve,

Thanks for taking the time to reply, your comments were very helpful!

As you've probably guessed I'm not a professional web developer. I'm
attempting to setup this site to help out a mate, and hopefully learn
something. I have an understanding of how HTML works, but I lack
knowledge and experience.

I think I'm probably going to take your advice and ditch the javascript
and replace it with proper links. The javascript thing was an
experiment, and I think the idea was basically sound. I was attempting
to use one page to display whatever content was requested. This should
mean that all the pages are guaranteed to look the same as they would
all be using the same layout. If I use discreet pages for each link,
I'll have to change them all if I decide to make a change to any one of
them. Thats more work isn't it?

It appears you dont approve of using a table for layout. I keep
reading the CSS is the proper tool for setting out page layouts. But I
just cant picture how it works. Formatting stuff with CSS makes bags
of sense, but I've yet to see the light on using it for putting things
where I want them. I'm going to have to take some time to go through
it and get my head around it. Tables are just easier to understand and
manipulate.

Cheers,

Colin

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