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chjis
11-03-2007, 02:24 AM
Okay so hello everyone, my names chris.

I recently decided I was going to do web hosting, and had a friend start building me a template since I lack html.

But he only created me a nice background image to add onto.

So I centered it on the page and started adding "Draw AP Divs" onto it.


At first I had the images perfectly aligned in my firefox browser and I was ready to continue adding stuff to it, however, the images are misplaced in everyone elses browsers (i.e and firefox) And I'm completely clueless on how I can get the images properly aligned in there spots for both browsers..

http://i8.tinypic.com/6byhj50.jpg

As you can see there not aligned in that view (internet explorer)
but in firefox there fine.. and when I fix them to look right in internet explorer, they mess up in firefox.

I'm at a loss.

Heres the code if you want it to be posted here:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>***aS Hosting</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-color: #000000;
}
#apDiv1 {
position:absolute;
left:153px;
top:122px;
width:418px;
height:234px;
z-index:1;
}
#apDiv2 {
position:absolute;
left:95px;
top:310px;
width:56px;
height:48px;
z-index:1;
}
#apDiv3 {
position:absolute;
left:496px;
top:306px;
width:223px;
height:30px;
z-index:1;
}
.style2 {
color: #CCCCCC;
font-weight: bold;
}
#apDiv4 {
position:absolute;
left:496px;
top:359px;
width:401px;
height:256px;
z-index:2;
}
.style3 {color: #CCCCCC}
#apDiv5 {
position:absolute;
left:234px;
top:318px;
width:140px;
height:149px;
z-index:3;
}
#apDiv6 {
position:absolute;
left:237px;
top:508px;
width:138px;
height:150px;
z-index:4;
}
#apDiv7 {
position:absolute;
left:907px;
top:36px;
width:137px;
height:15px;
z-index:5;
}
.style4 {
color: #FFFF00;
}
#apDiv8 {
position:absolute;
left:511px;
top:181px;
width:145px;
height:25px;
z-index:6;
}
.style6 {color: #666666}
#apDiv9 {
position:absolute;
left:712px;
top:219px;
width:160px;
height:22px;
z-index:7;
}
#apDiv10 {
position:absolute;
left:851px;
top:247px;
width:140px;
height:19px;
z-index:8;
}
#apDiv11 {
position:absolute;
left:851px;
top:280px;
width:141px;
height:20px;
z-index:9;
}
#apDiv12 {
position:absolute;
left:854px;
top:312px;
width:138px;
height:21px;
z-index:10;
}
a:link, a:visited, a:hover
{
text-decoration: none;
}
.style7 {color: #FF00FF}
#apDiv13 {
position:absolute;
left:748px;
top:21px;
width:291px;
height:171px;
z-index:5;
}
#apDiv14 {
position:absolute;
left:916px;
top:29px;
width:105px;
height:15px;
z-index:6;
}
#apDiv15 {
position:absolute;
left:919px;
top:54px;
width:106px;
height:16px;
z-index:7;
}
#apDiv16 {
position:absolute;
left:777px;
top:87px;
width:43px;
height:17px;
z-index:8;
}
#apDiv17 {
position:absolute;
left:920px;
top:81px;
width:106px;
height:16px;
z-index:8;
}
#apDiv18 {
position:absolute;
left:918px;
top:105px;
width:107px;
height:15px;
z-index:9;
}
#apDiv19 {
position:absolute;
left:919px;
top:129px;
width:108px;
height:15px;
z-index:10;
}
#apDiv20 {
position:absolute;
left:918px;
top:154px;
width:106px;
height:15px;
z-index:11;
}
-->
</style></head>

<body>
<div class="style2" id="apDiv3">November 02, 2007</div>
<div class="style3" id="apDiv4">
<p>Text</p>
<p><br />
</p>
</div>
<div class="style3" id="apDiv5">Text</div>
<div class="style3" id="apDiv6">Text</div>
<div id="apDiv13"></div>
<div id="apDiv14"><img src="home.jpg" width="45" height="14" /></div>
<div id="apDiv15"><img src="aboutus.jpg" width="67" height="14" /></div>
<div id="apDiv17"><img src="support.jpg" width="61" height="13" /></div>
<div id="apDiv18"><img src="hostingplans.jpg" width="100" height="14" /></div>
<div id="apDiv19"><img src="links.jpg" width="42" height="14" /></div>
<div id="apDiv20"><img src="controlpanel.jpg" width="103" height="14" /></div>
<div align="center"><img src="back.jpg" width="825" height="800" /></div>
</body>
</html>



Any help is great.. and appreciated.
scragar
11-03-2007, 04:55 AM
don't use position absolute, it causes sever problems based on screen size, text size, font selection and browsers.

If you put up an image of how the page appears I shall help you to make this appearance using code that is far more compatible.

oh, and IE doesn't understand true xhtml, your better of using HTML until IE finaly decides to support it.
Centauri
11-03-2007, 08:45 AM
Firstly, that is a menu, which is a list of links, and should be marked up as an unordered list of text links.

Secondly, trying to align stuff over a fixed background image is doomed to failure - a simple text resize by the user will break the whole look. The image should be extracted into separate backgrounds for each link, and the containre background should be split to allow flexibility in size.

Thirdly, don't use absolute positioning unless you particularly need elements to overlap others - nearly all positioning can be accomplished using margins, padding and floats.

Is your friend's "background image" a Photoshop file containing many layers ? - if not, your friend has made life much more difficult for you.