Better way to do a couple things?

[Jon Bond]

Ok, after being incredibly lazy for a while, I finally did the (homepage)
for www.tuftscycling.org . I'm still working on the rest of the pages, so
none of the links work.

Right now, I'm using the <strong> and <em> tags to do dates. I'd like to
get the text after the date to indent. Is this a valid use for tables, or
should I try to stick to putting more nested DIVs in there? I was thinking
of doing an UL, but couldn't figure out how to do that much with it.

Also, I'd like the gradient bars to reach all the way across, so they touch
the one next to them, instead of having a whitespace. I figure its probably
related to the fact that for the 50/50% split on the "training" and "racing"
boxes, I had to put one to 49.5% to keep the other from getting kicked down
below. Whats up with that?

BTW, it does validate HTML 4.01 Strict, and would validate CSS if I took
that gradient out, but it looks like it doesn't interefere with other
browsers (much - if I'm wrong, correct me and I'll use a stretched image
instead).

Jon Bond

 

[Jon Bond]

and then Jon Bond said:


yes, like
<table>
<tr><th>1999-12-31</th><td>cycle ride to the milenium dome</td></tr>
<tr><th>2000-01-01</th><td>no ride - we're hung over</td></tr>


Where do you mean?


There are margins and things in there. 50% means 50% plus margins. It can
be hard to avoid this, as IE can't count.


Oh, I see.


http://homepage.ntlworld.com/l_vajzovic/snapshot2.png

That's what it looks like to me. Black text on brown is virtually invisible
at the bottom.

Thanks. Looks like I'll have to kill the gradient, shouldn't be that big a
deal. Gotta love how they all display differently - I miss when it was just
he "marquees" and a couple other minor things that didn't show up right.

Jon Bond

 

[Jon Bond]

and then Jon Bond said:


yes, like
<table>
<tr><th>1999-12-31</th><td>cycle ride to the milenium dome</td></tr>
<tr><th>2000-01-01</th><td>no ride - we're hung over</td></tr>


Where do you mean?


There are margins and things in there. 50% means 50% plus margins. It can
be hard to avoid this, as IE can't count.

No margins, but I figured thats what the deal was. Stupid IE.

Oh, I see.


http://homepage.ntlworld.com/l_vajzovic/snapshot2.png

That's what it looks like to me. Black text on brown is virtually invisible
at the bottom.

Out with the gradient then. Thanks!

Jon Bond