Expandable Table Issue

[legomaniac]

Hey, I am new here representing a company starting in a few weeks. Most of the people, including myself (the graphic designer) are keyed twords C and C++ programming or graphic design. I know basic HTML quite well and my friend who is starting the company knows a little bit of PHP and CSS.

Our problem is at the following site:
http://www.allwirehosting.net/newsite2/subcontent/allwirehostingcontentpages.html

I am trying to find a way to make the main content area of the website extendable to any length, in the process of doing so I split it up into two different cells of the same table. It solved the problem, in a shoddy way. If someone wants to select the text in the main content area, they also end up selecting the cells adjacent to the first cell where the main content is located.

I know that there is a way to fix this problem, probably with a Dynamic HTML tag or some CSS or somthing. I tried splitting the site up into seperate frames, but that doesn't help me either since you can not select text between the two seperate HTML documents.

Any help is very much appreciated, and thank you very much in advance.

[Kravvitz]

I suggest that you try using a tableless layout. (http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ThreeColumnLayouts)

[legomaniac]

Will I be able to incorporate the CSS into the current images that I have without losing all of the work that I have done for the graphic design?

I knew that the solution would probably be in CSS...But I am not really good at it, I am sure I could figure it out, but it is a little difficult for someone such as myself.

[ray326]

That design could be realized without tables with very little difficulty. Check the books in my sig for info.

[legomaniac]

Any specific links that you know of that could help me? We are kind of crunched on time and would not be able to purchase a book.

[ray326]

Well the first two are the authors' web sites with many further pointers from there. The best single starting point would probably be http://www.alistapart.com which is one of Zeldman's projects. Given a short fuse an no experience your best bet might be to bring in a good web developer just to get you going.

[legomaniac]

We have been looking for someone, I will have to leave that up to the man I am working with who lives in Washington to locate someone though. He said some of his friends should be able to help him out, we will just have to wait and see.

Thank you for all of your help though.