Question about sidebars in Designing a site.

[Toby Inkster]

Is there any full-conforming browser?

Nope, but in my experience, for the last few years the latest available
version of Opera tends to have generally been the closest.

 

[red_dragon2983]

Whenever I try to design a page I ALWAYS use DIV's:
<div id="canvas">
<div id="content">
<div id="content-int">
</div>
</div>
<div id="sub-content">
<div id="sub-content-int">
</div>
</div>
</div>

CANVAS is the container; "*-int" is to provide a margin between
sub/content DIV's
It works out pretty good, esp. with the
margin: 0 0 -200000px 0;
padding: 0 0 200000px 0;
overflow: hidden;
thing.

 

[dorayme]

Hey, good on you for pointing that out. I didn't notice it on my fast
cable.

It is on a dedicated server with a 10 meg line and on my 2 meg line at home
it runs fine.[/QUOTE]

You saying it is not for people at large on the internet or it is
for an audience that you know have broadband?

 

[Carolyn Marenger]

Some will say yes, some will say no. I say YES! I have a site which I
think it works well. You can store all the data you want users to see all
the time, have a look http://www.pubtricks.com (there are some firefox
problems at the moment so don't flame me about that!). I have 2 side bars
that I
change on some pages and display random content via PHP. Lots of people
go 800 wide still. 90% of people now have 1024 so I would not worry about
the width. Keep important data on the left and stuff you can afford to
loose on the right.

I just looked at the site and while I agree with you in general about using
sidebars, I think there is a little room for improvement on your site. In
particular, without enlarging the font, there is very little on the screen
that I can read. The content might be great, but I'm not likely to stick
around long enough to find out.

Carolyn

 

[red_dragon2983]

Thank you for your input, I greatly appreciate it.
For those who decided to go off topic, it annoys alot of people who
wish to get the same answer.

[offtopic]
Just a quick question... Is there anyway I can get Google Groups to
insert a signature for me?
If not, then all that I really have to do is have the "-- " then my
sig? Thanks!
[/offtopic]

 

[Nick Theodorakis]

Thank you for your input, I greatly appreciate it.
For those who decided to go off topic, it annoys alot of people who
wish to get the same answer.

[offtopic]
Just a quick question... Is there anyway I can get Google Groups to
insert a signature for me?
If not, then all that I really have to do is have the "-- " then my
sig? Thanks!
[/offtopic]

You can't. You could keep a document open with your sig in it, and just
cut and paste it into your reply.

Also, you might these helpful:
<http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14213>
<http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/>

Nick