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Can anyone help me please?

I have made a website for a friend who is a builder.
My screen is set at 1280x1024.....which is whate I made the site on.

He says the homepage is over to the right...although all the other album pages are centred.

I changed his display settings to the same as mine, then he said that on the other computers in their house it is over to the right too.

I can either put it correctly for a display of 1280x1024 OR his which is 1280x768.

Is there a way i can have it centred for both? And how come the album pages are all ok? Ive checked their dimensions and it all seems to be the same.

Stumped! :shrug:
 
CSS

margin-right=auto
margin-left=auto
 
If you can post a link to the site I may be able to help :) its a bit hard when you cant see the code. It could be a number of things.
 
just looked in Firefox 2 and IE 7 and it looks fine on my 1024*768 screen ?

Although something has gone slightly wrong with the title bar on these 2 pages

Single storey extension, cavity blockwork in timber frame with render finish - Bishops Stortford

Two Storey Extension in cavity blockwork with render finish - Chelmsford

The bar the text is in isnt formed correctly just on these 2 pages ? looks like there may be a space at the end of the lines or something odd !
 
Yes i have set it over to the left at the moment....so its ok for him.........but its over to the left for me on my screen.

How come the album pages are always centred regardless??

Yes I noticed that Ian.... still sorting tonight! ;)
 
ah, when you placed the pics on the main page, it looks like you have set them at a specific place, an absolute dimension is set in the source of the page, this will ALWAYS be that distance from the datum corner, whether its set central or not (as far as i understand it anyway im no web building genius)

I used to create a table and put all the main page infor in cells in the table (ie cheat) and then centre the table, it always seemed to keep stuff in the centre then ! :)
 
the difference between DIV and TABLE

i'm always slapped for using tables but this is where they come in handy :D
 
can you explain it better. i used a layer for each text box. should I have used a table instead?

how wide should I have the table then?
And how do I automatically make it centred whichever display setting is used?
 
Janice said:
can you explain it better. i used a layer for each text box. should I have used a table instead?

how wide should I have the table then?
And how do I automatically make it centred whichever display setting is used?
Click to expand...

start with

<table
style="text-align: left; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; width: 768px;">
</table>

you can then stick what you like between the two table tags and it should be centered on the page with a maximum page width of 768 pixels
 
Janice said:
can you explain it better. i used a layer for each text box. should I have used a table instead?

how wide should I have the table then?
And how do I automatically make it centred whichever display setting is used?
Click to expand...

Janice, this is really dirty and quick, but have a look at this and see if it explains what i mean ! :) in reality you would set the borders of the table as invisible, but have left it so you can see what i did ! its probably frowned on by most web designers as its done in frotnpage but its quick ;)

http://www.apsq91.dsl.pipex.com/images/Janice/janice1.htm
 
I can only use the design mode. I dont know code :(

I have now put everthing in tables. 3 pics down each side and the block of text in another table of one cell.

I cant move them where I want them though. the centre box of text keeps going right down to the bottom of the page and the right hand column of 3 pics stays over on the left below the others.
Does drag and drop not work?
 
Thats great Ian...but i cant see how to make the table up like that. is it one big table with various cells missing?
 
I will get working on it! Thanks for you help, Ian & Brummie.

Hope I can merge ok! :D
 
google for a program called NVU. its may be a bit easier to use than dreamweaver
 
fixed :thumbs:
 
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