Re: [Sheflug] Re: New Front Page

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Steve Tickle wrote:

> While I in no way claim to be an html author, I always find that it's 
> better to design my pages for an absolute screen width because of all the 
> wrapping that IE and Nutscrape do. Therefore I'd say it would be better if 
> you made the line
> 
> <center><table COLS=3 WIDTH="100%" NOSAVE >
> 
> something like <center><table COLS=3 WIDTH="750" NOSAVE >.

This is where I disagree ;)) As a (professional!) HTML author, I *much*
prefer percentages - they scale. And center is a complete no-no, so I
guess I disagree with both of you ;)) Of course, it depends on your HTML
syle (it's like Kung-Fu ;). I would prefer:

<div align='center'><table cols='3' width='90%' border='0'> ...

Also, the Sheflug pages are not well-formed (technical term, not an
insult!!!) nor valid, but again, it's down to HTML style.

Moral of the story ... you can spend days tweaking HTML ;) Although, I
think one of the problems is that the DTD at the top of the page seems to
be incorrect - I think it might be throwing some of the parsing engines in
the browsers..

> Doing this help iron out the problems that you're currently experiencing. 
> Our DTP guy here also does now our website but doesn't seem to be able to 
> make the mental transition from the printed page to the displayed page for 
> this reason.

It depends how you want the page to display. I prefer to make something
that scales to all sizes. Of course, my pay-off is that I don't get
control over the finer points of how the page looks, I only get control of
the content and colour scheme. If you want fine control, you have to
design for fixed screens.. HTMl style again. See, it is like kung-fu ;)

Cheers,

Alex.


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