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designx
09-12-2008, 02:32 PM
Hello
I am designing a website using dreamweaver and wanted to know how to design the site to where there would be no empty space on the sides. I would like the design to cover the whole browser from side to side. Do I use tables or not to do this? Here is an example http://www.criterionservices.biz/index.php See where the header where it says criterion services goes all the way to the border.
Thank You

hiredeveloper
09-13-2008, 01:51 AM
As u have questioned about using table in your website... I will suggest you to use DIV as much as possible.. try to not use Tables.. the reason is only this... the content of the website with DIV been crawled and indexed for targeted keywords is fast.. u can say DIV based websites are more SE friendly then Table based ones.

Centauri
09-13-2008, 05:57 AM
Although that example site does use tables for layout (tables are for formatting tabular data, and shouldn't be used for layout - use html elements for their intended purpose), the actual header graphic does not extend all the way across. The whole site is confined to a width of 766px, and that is the width of the central part of the header graphic (http://www.criterionservices.biz/images/aatop1.jpg). The side parts can simply be a repeated graphic (http://www.criterionservices.biz/images/abg.gif) on the body background - it actually goes behind the header graphic but it looks as though it is one.