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Having layout trouble.

Aobaru

Aobaru

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http://www.aobarunet.vibrai.com/test.php (View the source to see HTML, it's supposed to look similar to this page.)

as opposed to

newlayoutnc7.png


What's going on?
 
Uh, you're doing way too many things wrong to count, sorry. For instance, you seem to have the strangest of tendencies to put semicolons all over the place in your CSS where there should be a comma or nothing at all. And don't use tables for layouts! @_@

I suggest you just read my HTML guide and start from scratch.
 
Butterfree said:
Uh, you're doing way too many things wrong to count, sorry. For instance, you seem to have the strangest of tendencies to put semicolons all over the place in your CSS where there should be a comma or nothing at all. And don't use tables for layouts! @_@

I suggest you just read my HTML guide and start from scratch.
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I've made layouts before, but I just seem to be having trouble putting the banner in the middle of the left and right menus, because I've never done it that way before.

However, I'll follow your advice and start from scratch.

Oh, and about the CSS thing; the code is from here.
 
...because it does silly things like what's breaking your layout?
 
Aobaru said:
And why is that, pray tell?
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because they're the same clueless regurgitated crap as found in most other "tutorials" on the interbutts

someone without a clue what e was doing managed to get something working, then decided to be helpful and provide the world with eir freakish and fragile abomination of a solution -- meanwhile not actually explaining how it works or why or otherwise providing any truly useful information
 
Fixed-width is dumb. Quite consistently. I have a decent monitor and I like viewing things at 80%; why do you want to make it take up very little space on my monitor?
 
Especially so since you could very easily remove the borders from your Wooper banner and instead use a solid background color and border on a stretching div.
 
Okay, I tweaked it around a bit. I just have to fix the banner. Do you have any advice for the banner? And how do you center it?
 
Remove those <center> tags from your header div, make its width 100%, give it the same background color as the background behind the banner and then make the background-position top center.
 
Butterfree said:
Remove those <center> tags from your header div, make its width 100%, give it the same background color as the background behind the banner and then make the background-position top center.
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Err, now it's multiplied across the top.
 
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