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table and frame offset 2

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bpafc

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Jul 4, 2003
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HELP!!!
I've been using DW3 for a while now and am starting to get to grips with all the design fundamentals.
I recently began developing a site for my new employers and towards the end of designing the home page it suddenly 'flipped' on me. I setup 2 frames a header and mainframe (which is called leftframe....don't ask)
I used tables to layout the site and decided upon 610 as the table width while in dreamweaver evrything was going fine I'd uploaded and previewd all seemed well and now I'm not sure where its gone wrong.

I previewed the site earlier and the table in the mainframe are offset from the nav bar in the header...any ideas
 
Coupel of issues ehre.

(1) You ened to set your margin width and height using the proeprty inspector, for your top frame, to 0 so they are the same as your bottom frame.

(2) You ened to set the scrolling properties the same for both frames if you want the tables to line up, as IE6 and other browsers will allow for a scroll bar wdith ont eh right hand side even if one does not appear.

(3) Proably the ebst way to fix this? Forget using frames, in this case, I can not see the reason. Set up a temmplate, with the top navigation as non-editable, and the create your site using this tenmpltate. Or save the top navigation as an include file and insert it into all your files.

Using frames is making your liek more complciated here than need be and you do nto stand to beenfit from using them. You hav enot filled out yoru &quot;<noframes> content in the index file... all sorts of issues that will effect sites search enginge rnaking.

i'd sue a template instead. Easier, less ahssle multi browser and multi platform, better with search engines and less work to maintain.

 
chers for the feedback....had a look seems to be to the most sensible outcome actually shall look to follow your instructions
 
What a muppet, sorry peeps....nippi, most impressed with your reply...really helpful
 
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