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I dont know how to do that, I never have messed with iframes my self. But I do suggest you look into using PHP instead of iframes. It works the same and gives a nicer presentation:nav.php- link<br> link<br> link<br>file.php-<?php include("nav.php"); ?>content<br>content<br>content<br>what the viewer will get- link<br> link<br> link<br>content<br>content<br>content<br>simple =D

Had to play with it a bit but,In your navigation container, give it a width of 23%. In your content container, give it a left margin of 23%.that'll look fine in 1024x768, but you'll have to adjust for 800x600. This is why I wish css had variables and math... so I could just be like "margin-left: div.navcontainer.width+10px;"another solution would be to set the floating of the content to right, and play with that. Personally, I would just put the whole damn thing into a table. Then it would work fine.

I'm kinda confused as to where the world of website scripting is headed. It seems like it's becoming needlessly more complicated. I want to be convinced that XHTML and Xforms are really better than good old traditional HTML.I like to make my websites in traditional HTML because when I'm scripting it, I'm looking for the fastest and most effecient way to get what I want. If my goal is speed and effeciency, why then would I want to use a language that requires me to add a / to the end of every <br>? Why would I want to spend the time trying to get my elements aligned in the center using css and declairing both text-align: center and margins: auto when all I have to do is add a nice little <center> tag? Not only that but, If we wanted to discuss readability, <center> makes a heck of a lot more since.and these Xforms... now to do what would take 5 lines of scripting before, now takes 18 lines? Why would I want this? seriously... look at this: <xforms><model> <instance> <person> <fname/> <lname/> </person> </instance> <submission id="form1" method="get" action="submit.asp"/></model><input ref="fname"><label>First Name</label></input><br /><input ref="lname"><label>Last Name</label></input><br /><br /><submit submission="form1"><label>Submit</label></submit></xforms> and now the same thing in good ol traditional: <form id="form1" method="get" action="submit.asp"><input type="text" name="fname"><br><input type="text" name="lname"><br><input type="submit" name="Submit"></form> CSS on the other hand, I love. It seems to be moving in the right direction. It just needs some support for basic stuff like math and variables. Also add some more conditions. Then I could do stuff like "width: div.container.width+30px;" or "input:onfocus { border-color: red; }" without having to use javascript.Anyway... am I crazy? Am I the only one who sees this, or am I not seeing something?

Flash has it's own language called action script. It's a language you can only edit within the flash editor. From what you said... I'm not sure you even know what flash is, go download the 30-day trial of flash 8 at macromedia.com.

a .php file is still a html file. It's just an html file with php! Your script looks fine.

I would love to just see a variable in css just called "align". margin: auto is too cryptic.

It seems to be working for me. although I would suggest that if you're going to make a layout like this, you align everything to one side or the other because aligning with a percentage will look different in a bad way depending on the size of the bowser window. I played with it a little with my handy firefox web dev bar:body{ background-color: #000000; background-image: url(back.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: top left;}div.content {position: relative;top: 130px;width: 525px;height: 60%;border: 1px dashed white;margin: 0;padding: 0;z-index: 4;} dunno if that helps... probably dosent. if you want to keep it centered, then you'll probably have to break the image up into parts and not use any absolute positioning.

set the div width/height to a percentage.ex: width: 100%;

I'll make it as basic as I can... without using tables(recommended): <style>#content{ float:left; display: inline;}#navigation{ float:right; display: inline;}</style><body>this is my header<div id="content"> This is my content. Blah.</div><div id="navigation"> link<br> link<br> link<br></div><div style="clear:both"></div>this is my footer</body> using tables(not recommended): <table style="width: 100%"> <tr> <td style="width: 70%"> My content goes here. </td> <td> link<br> link<br> link<br> </td> </tr></table>

setting the height of the inline navigation container to 100% should do it.

Try setting the margins in the titlebar and content to 0px. Also, it seems pointless to have: <div> <h2 class="title_bar"> News </h2></div> when you could either just have <h2 class="title_bar"> News</h2> or <div class="title_bar"> News</div>

If you do a lot of PHP, I recommend you try using XAMPP. XAMMP is a installation package that includes Apache, MySQL, PHP, amung other things I have never used before such as SMTP stuff. Instead of having to go upload files on an FTP and viewing it online, you can just go to http://localhost in your browser and there you are. Although... if you're using a mac... then yeah... you probably do have to use one of the free websites listed

with php, you have to test the script in a special environment or upload it and see what it looks like. Google XAMPP for a local environment. Also, you have to name the file test.php

Well cool, I learned some new syntax! I'll have to remember that conditional operator thing.

lol

when you say mac, I assume you're refering to safari. I wouldn't try to develop for safari simply because even the people who made it have said they know it wasn't ready to be released. They haven't finished it yet and the only reason they released it is because microsoft said they were going to stop making IE for the mac.My suggestion is to tell anyone using a mac to get firefox.

I havn't tested this theory, but I imagine you could do it with javascript...something like <img onload="resizeImage(this);" src="myimage.jpg">***function resizeImage(img){ img.style.width=screen.width; img.style.height=screen.height;} Although you would have to play a little bit of a guessing game on how much of the screen the person is actually using to view the webpage. for that reason, I found this... dont know if it works, I just grabbed it off of a website: function alertSize() { var myWidth = 0, myHeight = 0; if( typeof( window.innerWidth ) == 'number' ) { //Non-IE myWidth = window.innerWidth; myHeight = window.innerHeight; } else if( document.documentElement && ( document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.documentElement.clientHeight ) ) { //IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode' myWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth; myHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight; } else if( document.body && ( document.body.clientWidth || document.body.clientHeight ) ) { //IE 4 compatible myWidth = document.body.clientWidth; myHeight = document.body.clientHeight; } window.alert( 'Width = ' + myWidth ); window.alert( 'Height = ' + myHeight );} that should give you the width/height of the viewable area. Then you might want to have a function that calls it self every second to change the width/height of the image if it changes.

Not sure how to fix what you already have, but I can tell you a different way of doing it that will work, and you dont have to use any position stuff. <div style="float:left; display:inline;"> <!--Here you put everything that will be in the nav bar--></div><div> <!--everything here will line up next to the navbar--></div><div style="clear:both;"></div><!--everything here will be below both the content and the navbar--> hope that helps.

If I'm not wrong, XML is the only language that you can make your own tags in... at least, legally.

that's right, except you got the order of operations wrong.border: width type color;ex:border: 2px solid black;

Just in case you don't already know this, if you're going to show the website to anyone else, the font wont show up. The browser will just default to another font. There is a way around this with IE if you download some special package from microsoft that converts the font into a file that the viewer can download temporarily for viewing your website. If your interested, I'll try to find that again.

not to mention, a very noobish thing to use on a website... almost as bad as <blink> =D

I would suggest you get rid of any anchors in your cells and have plain text, then for each <td> have:onmouseover="this.style.color='red'"onmouseout="this.style.color='white'"onclick="location.href='somepage.htm'"and then in css, make each cell use the pointer cursor... but it sounds like you already had that one figured out.

I second that!

if you know html, then you know how to make a simple website. If you want to know the next step to becoming more advanced in making websites, I suggest learning css.