Get ready for BLACK FRIDAY shopping starting in

Forums

This topic is locked

dreamweaver layers hell

Posted 02 Nov 2004 01:39:13
1
has voted
02 Nov 2004 01:39:13 valentin iglesias posted:
Hi
I'm relatively new to dreamweaver and was wondering if anyone could just clear a couple of things up for me?
I would reeeallly appreciate some pointers.
I've 3 questions actually: aaaarghh I feel like I'm going MAAAD!

I've done a site for someone and I can see it fine on my screen, everything's in place. But a friend of mine who has a larger screen brings the same page up and one of the images from the right hand side of the screen (in a layer) is suddenly in the middle?

If this is a layer problem, then is there some way of flattening the layers down (like you would in Photoshop) so that the image all becomes just one layer?

When I check my pages out in the option 'check destiny explores' (if that's what it says, sorry but my programme is in Spanish) some of the versions, ie: Netscape Navigator, 3 and 2, and Internet Explorer 3 and 2. The result that comes up says I have loads of errors in the pages?? Not in the more modern versions though. How can I overcome this without changing the look of my pages (the option 'convert' to make compatible with explorer 3 seems to completely rearrange my pages? I heard that the servers may reject sites which are not fully compatible with all explorers??

Any help gratefully recieved, thanks
sables

Replies

Replied 03 Nov 2004 11:56:51
03 Nov 2004 11:56:51 Dave Thomas replied:
I heard that the servers may reject sites which are not fully compatible with all explorers??

nothing ive ever heard of.

your picture is being moved as layers work off x & y co-ordinates and with a larger resolution like your friends they get shifted around. one way around this is to style the page using a CSS sheet and declare static/fluid positions for your elements so nothing moves when you resize etc..

and it may sound bad but IE 2 & 3 are like dinosaurs for processing todays code, i'd leave them out.
Regards,
Dave

[DWMX 2004]|[FlashMX 2004 Pro]|[SQL]|[Access2000]|[ASP/VBScript]|[XP-Pro]


Edited by - UltraDav on 03 Nov 2004 11:58:30
Replied 04 Nov 2004 01:02:52
04 Nov 2004 01:02:52 valentin iglesias replied:
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
I heard that the servers may reject sites which are not fully compatible with all explorers??

nothing ive ever heard of.

Thanks very much for you help Dave.

your picture is being moved as layers work off x & y co-ordinates and with a larger resolution like your friends they get shifted around. one way around this is to style the page using a CSS sheet and declare static/fluid positions for your elements so nothing moves when you resize etc..

and it may sound bad but IE 2 & 3 are like dinosaurs for processing todays code, i'd leave them out.
Regards,
Dave

[DWMX 2004]|[FlashMX 2004 Pro]|[SQL]|[Access2000]|[ASP/VBScript]|[XP-Pro]


Edited by - UltraDav on 03 Nov 2004 11:58:30
<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
Replied 05 Nov 2004 02:53:14
05 Nov 2004 02:53:14 Seb Adlington replied:
I didn't realise you could get Layers to resize and repostion according to resolution. Always been my gripe with layers so I've rarely ever used them.

How do you go about setting them to be fluid?

Reply to this topic