[CLUE-Tech] How do website authors maintain their sanity?

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 15:39:55 -0700
"Mike Miller" <mike at millertwinracing.com> wrote:

> Here's how I woulda done it before I went from Webmastering to Network
> Security:
> 
> Build a page sized table with zero x and y borders so that it tucks up
> into the upper left corner(possibly Two tables as your widths change
> about 150pixels down the page) The top table would have three columns
> with a fixed pixel width for the first column, a fixed pixel width for
> the second column, and a '*' width for the last column. I can be chopped
> so that the first part of the left margin is in the cell, the green part
> with the title and address are in the second column, and the * width is
> empty with a green background.
> 
> (btw, leaving the address as an image is a bad idea...it's nor
> searchable, nor is it visible by non graphics browsers, of by folks with
> vision issues.)
> 
> The second table would have the left image graphic as the background, a
> fixed height, and the menu and logo in the foreground (with an alt tag
> for the logo), the text would be in the second column, and again,
> another '*' column for pick up the slack.
> 
> This limits the ultimate width that the page is rendered at, but really,
> you don't WANT the text on the page to flow to the right for 1600
> pixels....past a certain point, it becomes hard to read. By using tables
> (and images as backgrounds or foregrounds in each cell) you can overlay
> graphics on top of each other, and the standards for rendering tables
> are MUCH more stable.

Thanks for the suggestions. Dunno why it hadn't occurred to me to use one
table on top of another. I don't know that they always butt one right
against the other -- perhaps that's an old browser issue.

Ditching the image for the address is on my list -- but I need to make
sure I can move away from the "absolute appearance" thing, which is one of
my goals for this project.

jed
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