URGENT Help Needed, Probably Really Simple!!

[tomw1]

Hi,

I've recently designed a website, which has been uploaded to the domain www.yeoldvillageclockshop.com. I created it in Microsoft Front Page, and within this package the website looks and works perfect on my pc. However, when it is accessed from other computers, usually ones with different screen resolutions or monitor sizes, the layout goes completely crazy, please do check it out for yourself! Text overlaps onto pictures and buttons get overlapped by pictures - it turns into a complete mess!

There is most probably a really simple solution to this, and would highly appreciate any help or assistance you may be able to offer. This site/business is being heavily marketed THIS FRIDAY (27th June 08) so really need to get it working perfect by then!!

Thanks in advanced for reading this and offering any assistance!

[ryanbutler]

Yeah, the problem is the use of absolute positioning. You simply can't control the flow of elements on the web page using that method. You'll have to re-write it using a container with floats or use a table, which if your CSS skills aren't intermediate to advanced, you'll want a table. Separate the tables into separate tables for the header, navigation, left menu and content area and the footer.

[donatello]

Ooooh... Front Page... I'm not a fan of Front page...

If you're going to do it over, you might opt for a professional 'template' and then just modify it to suit your needs. Then you don't have to create too much CSS yourself if you're not beyond amateur or advanced amateur level.

Here is what to try:

1.) Go and take a look at the Open Source Template page. There are thousands of templates you can get there for FREE! OSWD.org (http://www.oswd.org) - You can download free templates and them simply modify them to fit the site you need to re-do.
2.) Take the MS Frontpage disk out of your computer and smash it with a sledgehammer and never us it again. Incinerate the shards.
3.) Install DreamWeaver (if you don't want to spend the money, go to SourceForge (http://www.sourceforge.net) and give Amaya a crack. It's FREE!) Both are better than Frontpage. Amaya is reasonably close to Dreamweaver... you can build a site with it for free.

Hope this helps.
Frontpage is only good for making automatic thumbnails and nothing else.

[Dan Williamson]

I certainly agree with number two Donatello, however why waste money on Dreamweaver when you can use Notepad++ or something, because really the WYSIWYG is only a few steps ahead of Frontpage.

I would use a OSWD template for now until you can learn HTML and CSS to a degree which you can re-code templates in just code, it takes no longer than a few weeks to become efficient in HTML and CSS.