a couple of questions

gocheese176 said: "Hi does anyone know how to control where you can put things on your website. I've tried tables and i can't get them that big. this is what i do that is what i do and it still doesn't get any bigger. Can you help me out. :confused:"

edwin said: "sure thing you need to use css. then you can control all the design elements of your websites."

Darksat said: "Post your url. width 100% will only make the table as wide as its containing object so if your table is inside another table or a frame it will only be 100% of the width of that table or frame."

jancker said: "Design is mostly about tables. You can make virtually any layout, as long as it's rectangular."

JamesC said: "[QUOTE=gocheese176]Hi does anyone know how to control where you can put things on your website. I've tried tables and i can't get them that big. this is what i do that is what i do and it still doesn't get any bigger. Can you help me out. :confused:[/QUOTE] Try this that will make the whole table 840 pixels then just adjust it to what ever size you need ... maybe 560 or 640 ...ect ..... ect Hope this helps :)"

theHostingFinder said: "Yes, I'd need to see the context of the problem to help, really. Tables are the classical way of positioning content, and I still find them useful. I have not been able to find a way of centering the content part of my webpages, at every user screen resolution, using CSS. Using tables, it's easy. Right now I use a mixture of tables and CSS sheets to build my web sites (example below) - kind of using the best of both worlds. -------------- Hosting reviews: [url]http://www.thehostingfinder.com[/url]"

silatpupil said: "Tables are notoriously bad for layout design..... As Edwin suggested, try css, its actually very simple, and its a lot better for site design."

<h1> said: "if you are building sites that don't change like yours. How are you able to postion

elements when the contents are unknown? It's just like solving a problem but creating another. For small simple sites that won't change much div positioning is obviously suggested. Check my site: I coded it in 3 days...all tables very confusing yes a lot of code. But when I want to add anything the table design shifts and keeps the same general design. I don't have to now change the positioning of other elements to fit with the new content. [url]www.richardwdesigns.com[/url]"

theHostingFinder said: "You have a point there. Tables may act like sort of rubber bands, that hold the content.... But you can design DIV:s in CSS to be sort of flexible, too. What may lead to problems is that everything has a fixed upper-left-corner position, if you do orthodox CSS. Personally, I prefer using a mixture of old + new. --------------------------------- [url="http://www.thehostingfinder.com"]Serious cheap web hosting reviews[/url]"