[SeSawaya]

I know aobut 1% of what dreamweaver is capable of (and even less of how to do it) but heres my question.

I put together a a page that has images (and text). Now if you resize the window it messes everything up. I want it to "lock" to a specific layout. You can see it here

if you look at the window at full screen size, it looks OK, if you resize it things get moved around. Is there a better way to do this? I overlayed the text too as a layer.

thanks for any tips
Kent

[Macola]

Believe it or not, this is actually a good thing. You don't want to force the viewer into a fixed-width layout since you have no idea what his/her screen resolution is. A good discussion of these and other issues as at: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML3.2/index.html

If you really want to fix the layout, try using fixed-width table instead of layers.

Edit: Corrected typo

[SeSawaya]

yah, I understand what your saying. But how can I keep those dang text descriptions with the pictures?

[derbs]

Use a table

http://nottingham.headlandmultimedia...tablething.htm

Copy the source out and paste it into a new page in dreamweaver, and put your pictures in

[System.out]

If you're dealing with images, then you're already trapped in a fixed width situation no matter what. For example, if you line up 4 images in a table,

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tr><td>
<table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" border="0">
<tr><td>
<img src="/blahblah.jpg" width="100" height="100" alt="no image is supposed to load">
<br><font face="arial" size="2">enter sometext here</font>
</td><td>
<img src="/blahblah.jpg" width="100" height="100" alt="no image is supposed to load">
<br><font face="arial" size="2">enter sometext here</font>
</td><td>
<img src="/blahblah.jpg" width="100" height="100" alt="no image is supposed to load">
<br><font face="arial" size="2">enter sometext here</font>
</td><td>
<img src="/blahblah.jpg" width="100" height="100" alt="no image is supposed to load">
<br><font face="arial" size="2">enter sometext here</font>
</tr></td></table>
</tr></td>
</table>

then you can only minimize the browser window so much before you'll have to scroll sideways. So, I would just use tables instead of layers, give the tables holding the images a cellspacing and cellpadding of say 5, and maybe resize those images using a image editor to help fit them more comfortably in a smaller window.