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ok heres my problem. i made a layout in photoshop and then modified it in fireworks than exported to dreamweaver. The layout has a header bar and a footer bar, those bars dont go all the way across the page, but i did get the header image to work. and i have a feeling i can use divs (or something idk) to put my footer image in and then put that behind the table that has my layout in it. so it gives the illusion of a solid bar extending across the entire page no matter what you screen resolution is. please help, if you need any more information just ask.thanks.

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How complicated is the site layout? By the time you've used Photoshop, Fireworks and Dreamweaver, from my experience you tend to have a very, very complicated stylesheet and hundreds of unnecessary elements on the page. Plus, you now have a table for your layout. This is bad for a number of reasons. If you can post the code here, or a screenshot of your layout, it might turn out being easier just redoing it by hand.

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How complicated is the site layout? By the time you've used Photoshop, Fireworks and Dreamweaver, from my experience you tend to have a very, very complicated stylesheet and hundreds of unnecessary elements on the page. Plus, you now have a table for your layout. This is bad for a number of reasons. If you can post the code here, or a screenshot of your layout, it might turn out being easier just redoing it by hand.
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Doesn't look too complicated. Do you know much HTML/CSS or just how to tweak it in those programs?

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Well, it would definately be possible to fix the problem if I could see your code, but better would be a rewrite. Tables are a bad idea for layout for accessibility reasons, flexibility reasons, and styling reasons. Using the elements semantically is the best way to start - write the HTML with no CSS, just give everything the most appropriate tags. Then, style it later, adding as few extra elements as possible. It's nearly 3am here, so I'm off in a sec, but you can think whether you want just a fix to this problem (if it completes the site, then no one would blame you) or do a rewrite for the sake of nice, clean coding practises.

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Well, it would definately be possible to fix the problem if I could see your code, but better would be a rewrite. Tables are a bad idea for layout for accessibility reasons, flexibility reasons, and styling reasons. Using the elements semantically is the best way to start - write the HTML with no CSS, just give everything the most appropriate tags. Then, style it later, adding as few extra elements as possible. It's nearly 3am here, so I'm off in a sec, but you can think whether you want just a fix to this problem (if it completes the site, then no one would blame you) or do a rewrite for the sake of nice, clean coding practises.
I just want a fix to this problem, ive been redoing the design all day and i just really want to know if its possible, if it is id like to know how without deleting and doing a lot of editing and deleting.
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Well, post code and let's see :)

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Well, post code and let's see :)
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