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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: beau4021 on May 15, 2005, 07:36:29 pm

Title: web sites built for £100
Post by: beau4021 on May 15, 2005, 07:36:29 pm
re web sites
am doing ones like this that works !!!
for £100 including help with your set up and reg
www.advancecarpetcare.co.uk
brian
Title: Re: web sites built for £100
Post by: Dennis on May 15, 2005, 08:40:07 pm
Looks absolutely awful in Firefox, the text is all over the place, sorry!
Title: Re: web sites built for £100
Post by: beau4021 on May 16, 2005, 03:00:17 pm
hi dennis
thanks for that
when i bulit this i never made it compatible with firefox browsers just internet explorer
will have to think on thos one
i am very pleased you have pointed it out
how many people use this browser !!!
thanks again brian
Title: Re: web sites built for £100
Post by: Mark Roberts on May 16, 2005, 03:07:40 pm
To date 55,961,261 people have downloaded Firefox !

Use tables instead of layers and your website will be cured...

Mark
Title: Re: web sites built for £100
Post by: CARPET KNIGHTS on May 16, 2005, 03:13:01 pm
or Text boxes!
Title: Re: web sites built for £100
Post by: Mark Roberts on May 16, 2005, 03:18:01 pm
Same thing  ;) ish.

You should only use text boxes on forms etc-

http://www.codeave.com/html/code.asp?u_log=5011

If you used text boxes you would get somin like this-

http://www.selling-it.com/Useability/Fields_Forms/Form_text_buttons.htm



Mark
Title: Re: web sites built for £100
Post by: Glynn on May 16, 2005, 04:10:56 pm
Its all over the place on
firefox AND safari
Title: Re: web sites built for £100
Post by: CARPET KNIGHTS on May 16, 2005, 06:55:53 pm
I don't mean text boxes in the way that you have taken it. Your talking about HTML code text boxes. I'm talking about the text boxes that you can use in Frontpage and powerpoint etc.

I had the same problem with my site as was stated above. the text would come out all over the place on other peoples computers.

Put the text into textboxes and they hold the text in place.

This is an example of the html code for it. This is from my home page.

<!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t202"
 coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="202" path="m,l,21600r21600,l21600,xe">
 <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/>
 <v:path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/>
</v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t202" alt="" style='position:absolute;
 left:398.25pt;top:247.5pt;width:153.75pt;height:335.25pt;z-index:1'
 strokecolor="white">
 <v:textbox>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" height="100%" id="table2">
   <tr>
      <td align="center">Carpet knights is based in Truro, Cornwall. We are
      ideally situated to cover all of west Cornwall.<p>Our flexible and
      reliable approach to business allows us to deliver a 24 hour 7 days a
      week service (just for those little emergencies).</p>
      <p>We use large petrol driven machines which stay in our van. They offer
      unsurpassed cleaning power which you will not be disappointed with. Our
      HOT WATER EXTRACTION method of cleaning (sometimes referred to as steam
      cleaning) is recommended by most of the leading carpet manufacturers
      <p>&nbsp;</td>
   </tr>
</table>
 </v:textbox>
</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><span style='mso-ignore:vglayout;position:
absolute;z-index:1;left:530px;top:329px;width:211px;height:453px'><img
width=211 height=453 src="index2_files/image001.gif" v:shapes="_x0000_s1026"></span><![endif]>
Title: Re: web sites built for £100
Post by: beau4021 on May 17, 2005, 05:11:51 pm
thanks guys thinking on it !!!
regs.brian
Title: Re: web sites built for £100
Post by: Mark Roberts on May 17, 2005, 05:12:48 pm
You did start off on your site with a table, its still there.(in your code above) If you had split your table up into cells you would not have the position problem. Its a known problem with frontpage.
Using layers and vml textboxes is a long winded and wrong solution to a problem that frontpage has created for you.
The bad news is as browsers get more w3c complient (http://www.w3.org/Consortium/ ) you will have to keep changing your code.
If you continue with frontpage dont use anything from the Drawing toolbar or the Positioning toolbar ....

Read though this thread about the same problem

http://www.talkfrontpage.com/showthread.php?t=4665&page=1

Mark

Title: Re: web sites built for £100
Post by: CARPET KNIGHTS on May 17, 2005, 06:09:11 pm
I had tried using tables in the way that you are saying but found it too restricting on the layout. but then i am a novice at website design just found that the way i did it was easy

cheers goron