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lovingyoualways
04-25-2006, 03:45 PM
This isn't a business related site, nor is it completely done. But I was just curious if anyone has ever used yahoo sitebuilder with their templates. Here is my issue please take a look at my site in signature. See how it is to the left and not centered. I have tried everything possible to center this site. But I can get some things centered but not everything. Any suggestions? Maybe I just need to start over and build it on my own I don't know but I just really want the site centered, the gap to the right is driving me crazy since someone pointed it out. Now I'm rambling. Thanks for listening.
TeresaK
04-25-2006, 08:03 PM
Hi,
I tried looking at your site, but the only thing that pulled up was your main directory.
Teresa
I tried looking at your site, but the only thing that pulled up was your main directory.
Teresa
narrison
04-25-2006, 09:32 PM
Use <div align="center"> above your table and then close it with </div> after you close the last table
chadd
04-26-2006, 07:29 AM
Use <div align="center"> above your table and then close it with </div> after you close the last table
or better yet, don't use tables at all smileys/smiley17.gif
or better yet, don't use tables at all smileys/smiley17.gif
tenXmom
04-26-2006, 08:56 AM
Using their site builder you may not have the option of not using tables - do you access to the html files?
TeresaK
04-26-2006, 11:54 AM
The site was working today and pulled up fine for me.
Do you have access to the html files?
If so you can place this code <center> after the </script> code and right before the <body background.....> code and that should take care of it. :)
Teresa
Do you have access to the html files?
If so you can place this code <center> after the </script> code and right before the <body background.....> code and that should take care of it. :)
Teresa
chadd
04-26-2006, 02:23 PM
If so you can place this code <center></font> after the </script> code and right before the <body background.....> code and that should take care of it. :)
Teresa
</font>simply placing a <center> tag just before the body tag would be a very bad idea</span> for three BIG reasons.
(at least these are the first three I thought of, i'm sure there are more)
1) you never put a layout tag outside of the body tag
2) you can never insert a tag without also adding a closing tag
3) finally, you should never even use the center tag as it isn't even supported in HTML 4.0, it was deprecated in favor of using a style attribute to center something
violating any of these rules can make your page invalid and if your page is invalid, you have a world of problems.
pages look very wrong in different browsers, spiders refuse to crawl your site, just to name a couple.
if you want to center something, put it in a div or span and center it with a style.
to center your whole site, put a div around everything inside your body tag and give that div the style="margin: 0 auto;"
this will keep your content hugged to the top of the page and centered in the browser window.
Teresa
</font>simply placing a <center> tag just before the body tag would be a very bad idea</span> for three BIG reasons.
(at least these are the first three I thought of, i'm sure there are more)
1) you never put a layout tag outside of the body tag
2) you can never insert a tag without also adding a closing tag
3) finally, you should never even use the center tag as it isn't even supported in HTML 4.0, it was deprecated in favor of using a style attribute to center something
violating any of these rules can make your page invalid and if your page is invalid, you have a world of problems.
pages look very wrong in different browsers, spiders refuse to crawl your site, just to name a couple.
if you want to center something, put it in a div or span and center it with a style.
to center your whole site, put a div around everything inside your body tag and give that div the style="margin: 0 auto;"
this will keep your content hugged to the top of the page and centered in the browser window.
chrlstoncharmed
04-26-2006, 02:54 PM
Using their site builder you may not have the option of not using tables - do you access to the html files?
That's what I was wondering too. I've never used the site builder, so I don't know if there is the option of editing the html. In any case, it's the first table under the body tag that would need to be aligned center.
But another issue I noticed in FireFox is that the text is overlapping past the center block and into the right column. It looks fine in IE, though. hummm smileys/smiley5.gif
Good luck with your project! smileys/smiley20.gif
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window.open = SymRealWinOpen;
SymReal = window.;
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That's what I was wondering too. I've never used the site builder, so I don't know if there is the option of editing the html. In any case, it's the first table under the body tag that would need to be aligned center.
But another issue I noticed in FireFox is that the text is overlapping past the center block and into the right column. It looks fine in IE, though. hummm smileys/smiley5.gif
Good luck with your project! smileys/smiley20.gif
*<!--
var SymRealOnLoad;
var SymReal;
Sym()
{
window.open = SymWinOpen;
if(SymReal != null)
SymReal();
}
SymOnLoad()
{
if(SymRealOnLoad != null)
SymRealOnLoad();
window.open = SymRealWinOpen;
SymReal = window.;
window. = Sym;
}
SymRealOnLoad = window.onload;
window.onload = SymOnLoad;
//-->
Internise
04-28-2006, 06:15 AM
Hi,
Sorry to burst any bubbles or sound rudebut the jahoo site builder is not up to anything other than possably a fun personal home page.
If you are serious about building websites you need an array of software to do it! otherwise your website will not be supported by every browser and It will look for the want of a better word, takky. If you want to check your website for compatability and other issues go to http://validator.w3.org
To make a good website you NEED Dreamweaver or frontpage,(I prefere dreamweaver mx)Photoshop, Fireworks andImage ready.
This plus quality hosting makes for a quality website!
Sorry to be blunt with you but i have done the Yahoo site thing and now look back and wonder what i was playing at! :)
Good luck to you and I hope that you get it sorted,
Sorry to burst any bubbles or sound rudebut the jahoo site builder is not up to anything other than possably a fun personal home page.
If you are serious about building websites you need an array of software to do it! otherwise your website will not be supported by every browser and It will look for the want of a better word, takky. If you want to check your website for compatability and other issues go to http://validator.w3.org
To make a good website you NEED Dreamweaver or frontpage,(I prefere dreamweaver mx)Photoshop, Fireworks andImage ready.
This plus quality hosting makes for a quality website!
Sorry to be blunt with you but i have done the Yahoo site thing and now look back and wonder what i was playing at! :)
Good luck to you and I hope that you get it sorted,
chadd
04-28-2006, 07:09 AM
To make a good website you NEED Dreamweaver or frontpage,
I'm going to disagree with you there.
The whole point of the company I started, Bekeeda (http://www.bekeeda.com), was to make it so people do NOT need to have software besides a web browser to make a good site that validates.
I don't know what kind of output the Yahoo site builder creates, but the templates you start with in our system are all XHTML valid, built using CSS layouts and they validate at w3.org and look the same in every browser. Our users don't have to know HTML, CSS, or any other language and never even have to look at the code.
I'm sure there are other site builders out there that do the same, even if yahoo's isn't up to snuff.
and by the way, to make a good webpage, you don't need </span></span>dreamweaver or front page, all you need is notepad smileys/smiley2.gif</span>
I'm going to disagree with you there.
The whole point of the company I started, Bekeeda (http://www.bekeeda.com), was to make it so people do NOT need to have software besides a web browser to make a good site that validates.
I don't know what kind of output the Yahoo site builder creates, but the templates you start with in our system are all XHTML valid, built using CSS layouts and they validate at w3.org and look the same in every browser. Our users don't have to know HTML, CSS, or any other language and never even have to look at the code.
I'm sure there are other site builders out there that do the same, even if yahoo's isn't up to snuff.
and by the way, to make a good webpage, you don't need </span></span>dreamweaver or front page, all you need is notepad smileys/smiley2.gif</span>
Internise
04-28-2006, 07:18 AM
Ok, Ok smileys/smiley1.gif, I aggree that all you NEED is notepad but you would also NEED a lot of time :)
I dont use templates, all my sites are from scratch and are w3 validated (in parts, some of the forms have later java scripts) Basic HTML.
What did you use to build your website ? Notepad or your own software?
Mark
I dont use templates, all my sites are from scratch and are w3 validated (in parts, some of the forms have later java scripts) Basic HTML.
What did you use to build your website ? Notepad or your own software?
Mark
chadd
04-28-2006, 08:08 AM
all the sites i build are written in a plain ol' text editor.
and i bet it doesn't take any more time writing a than using dreamweaver to create the code for you. in fact in some cases it is faster since more often than not, you have to go in and clean up the code from a WYSIWYG.
and i bet it doesn't take any more time writing a than using dreamweaver to create the code for you. in fact in some cases it is faster since more often than not, you have to go in and clean up the code from a WYSIWYG.
Internise
04-28-2006, 08:15 AM
Lol, i spose it's alldown to personal preferance!
all the best,
mark
all the best,
mark
