Advanced Question?!

rdiggidy said: "I'm not sure if this is an advanced question or something that everybody knows. I'm new to web design and very new to dreamweaver (my first week using it). I'm doing pretty well getting through the building of my first website and wanted to show it off to some friends today, but when they pulled up the site on their 17" monitors it didn't look so hot (I made the page on a 15" monitor and optimized it for the same). How can I get my site to "center itself" when it's viewed on a bigger screen. Such pages as [url]www.yahoo.com[/url] or [url]www.ebay.com[/url] are prime examples of what I'm trying to do. When viewed on a 15" monitor they take up the full screen and are "ligned up" with the margin on the left, when viewed on a bigger monitor they center themselves, splitting the unused portion of the screen to the right and the left. Hope that makes sense and hope someone out there more knowledgeable than I can help me out! Thanks for any help! Ryan"

rdiggidy said: "I know some of you smart folks out there knows the answer! I'm trying to get this site done by this weekend. Help!"

SlitheryImp said: "The easiest way would be to place all of your content in a table and center it like this: mind you, this is not the best way, you should learn css to this this properly, but it works, and it is quick and easy to implement. :) [CODE]

[COLOR=Navy]Place all of your content here[/COLOR]

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rdiggidy said: "Awesome! Thank you for the info and your time! CSS huh, well currently I know nothing about it. Guess it's time to start learning.... If I did know CSS/once I do know CSS will it be evident to me how to do what I'm wanting to do? Thanks again, Ryan"

SlitheryImp said: "No problems, glad to be of help. If you want to learn CSS here is a good place to start. [URL=http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/]Guide to Cascading Style Sheets[/URL] Have you got your site up yet?"

rdiggidy said: "Yes the site is up...kind of. It's no where near done, but it can be viewed: [url]www.marketingservicenetwork.com[/url] I think I've got the site centered (like I wanted), but I belive i used html and not css (I just selected "body" in Dreamweaver and then clicked the "center" button). In some ways I have kind of being using CSS, but not by "hand". When I edit text in Dreamweaver it automatically saves it as a "style" (or so it appears to me), so my understanding is that this is CSS. In my dreamweaver for dummies book :eek: (yup I'm using dreamweaver for dummies :rolleyes:) I got a slight grasp of how CSS is helpful for text, but I still have not clue on how it could be used to center my whole page, or how it would be benneficial or "better" than HTML for centering my page. This is the first website I've really ever built (I've used templates and "easy to make sites" sites before). I started from scratch and over the past 2 weeks I've learned enough about Dream Weaver and Photoshop to get me to this point. I still have a long way to go and I don't know anything about HTML,CSS, Flash or a lot of the other things that I want to learn, but I'm trying to pick stuff up as fast as my brain can hold onto it. I've already got one "customer" (it's a friend who owns a pool company) who wants me to build him a website and wants the introduction page to be flash, which I've never used before....guess it's time to get "flash for dummies." Thanks for the help! Anything else I should know or any suggestions on my page are welcome!"

raven said: "Looking pretty darn good so far!"

SlitheryImp said: "I like your site, looks good. btw, you don't have to use css, it's just that a lot of people consider using tables for your layout as 'bad practise'. I use tables myself by the way, still learning CSS :) I love the Dummies books, whenever I want to learn something new I always look to see if Dummies has a book about it, it's the first one I buy."