Melissa Carraway wrote:
> http://www.decisiveelement.com/clients/mothermartin/home/index03.htm
> ...I just used the standard doctype that dreamweaver spits out. I had
> no idea that it was wrong or could possibly make a difference.
Moral: never trust any software to do the right thing :-)
There are probably some settings that can be changed to improve what
Dreamweaver "spits out", as Dreamweaver is probably made as "useless by
default" as most other software available to web designers.
> The only curious thing is that (and maybe I just did something
> stupid), I went to copy and paste the code as you gave it to me and
> save it here so I could compare it against mine.
You did notice that I only made the _most needed_ corrections?
All fine-tuning is left to you.
> The only problem is that now, the background color on the navigation
> div won't show up. (the green area) When I changed the color, it
> shows up, but only behind the text links. How do I get it to show up
> in the entire Div?
Set an exact width on the div that is calculated from 'full width' minus
'side-paddings'.
#navigation {width: 685px;}
...should be pretty close.
> Also - when I hit F12 to preview it in dreamweaver, I see the sidebar
> graphic... but right now I don't. Strange. I copied the code and
> pasted it in so I don't know why it wouldn't work now.
I have no idea how Dreamweaver work, as I don't use that, or any other,
WYSIWYG editor.
Also: copy and paste is quick but not always reliable. My example-files
were altered slightly to fit into my test-environment, so minor
differences in comparison to your original may not suit your
test-environment.
At the end of it: Dreamweaver is not a browser, so if you need to see
what it looks like while working: use the browsers you have at hand.
FYI: I design in browsers - for browsers - and use only a source-code
editor that is not much more than a stripped-down text editor with a
well-instructed HTMLTidy attached...
<http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_07.html>
Needless to say that it took a while to "debug" even such a simple
software-solution, as it was definitely "made useless by default".
regards
Georg
--
http://www.gunlaug.no
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