Welcome to the MacNN Forums.

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

You are here: MacNN Forums > Software - Troubleshooting and Discussion > Developer Center > Argh! Please help a novice Dreamweaver user with cell spacing!

Argh! Please help a novice Dreamweaver user with cell spacing!
Thread Tools
SwarmyCurve
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2002
Location: USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 6, 2003, 08:57 PM
 
Hello,

I have to do this website for school and I'm really not that good with dreamweaver. I have done sites in Freeway just fine, but I need to learn dreamweaver once and for all.

Its going to be a simple site, at least at first - but I can't figure out how to make sure the text in this one cell of a big table does not hug the corners. I believe I need to adjust the cell spacing or padding, but then the whole table goes haywire! Its just the main text area - see below!



Please help. I have tried to many designs of this stupid site and none of them are working out nicely.


Here was the last design that I abandoned since it was so hard to add lots of text to without it going crazy with the complex table. (It is an editted FireworksMX template)
     
SwarmyCurve  (op)
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2002
Location: USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 10, 2003, 10:57 PM
 
I sort of figured out how to fix my problem.

don't laugh!
     
Colonel_Panic
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: 127.0.0.1
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 11, 2003, 12:10 AM
 
I would stick it out with this design, Work that one out.

PS. There is a few ways to go abotu yoru problem, A table in a table - witch is done a lot in complex designs. Or the simple way is just click the text indent button

     
mdc
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY²
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 11, 2003, 09:53 AM
 
i kinda like the design. small and compact. i do not really like the need for a popup window, but hey, it works.

you could put the entire site in a table and then that table in a table, that spans the 100% of the page and valign=center and then your little square site will be dynamically centered on a page.

is the top rounded edge block got an innershadow? maybe make that a _bit_ more innershadow-ed.

and one more thing before i shut up. the text that you were hassling with. i have not opened dreamweaver in a while, but what about justifying the text. i know how to do it in a plain .css style sheet.

if you add these lines to your .css file then all text in a " < td > " will have these properties:

td {
margin: 0px;
padding: 3px;
color: #000000;
font-size: 8pt;
font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif
text-align:justify;
}


just my 2c... use it, don't use it
     
SwarmyCurve  (op)
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2002
Location: USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Apr 12, 2003, 01:14 AM
 
Thanks for the info. I am going to try fiddling around some more with it tomorrow.
     
   
 
Forum Links
Forum Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Top
Privacy Policy
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 12:32 PM.
All contents of these forums © 1995-2017 MacNN. All rights reserved.
Branding + Design: www.gesamtbild.com
vBulletin v.3.8.8 © 2000-2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.,