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I understand the 3 on one line but I was wondering how would you do 4 without using tables. In other words what would you name the 4 divs since you floating to the left and right?

I figured it was probably to good to be true... I was taking a bunch of online tutorials and felt that they might be a little behind the times... the mentioned these AP div's along with building the site using tables in table-mode? I know from this forum the best bet is to build using div's and CSS but in a hurry I also noticed that once the page is set up you can change the AP's to either fixed, static, relative or inherit. Does that work?

In Dreamweaver the Absolute div tags "AP div" are or seemed to be an easy way to position elements on the page. You can draw them anywhere and move them around by their drag handles. I guess in older versions of Dreamweaver they were an easy way to layer images and text. You can still apply CSS to these. So I'm curious if anyone is using this method for building an entire web page? If you are what issues would one might have if any? Thanks

Curious... I did a search on the site but came up with nothing? Just wondering if any of you building sites in Dreamweaver start out or use Absolute Div tags to position. What's the pros or cons using this method? Thanks, Dave

ElanMan..... OH MAY FREAKIN G-D.... you just performed an minor miracle...LOL I have been going over this over and over and nothing seemed to work. It does now! It's a little mind boggling how much stuff you have to learn to build a quality web site. I can't thank you and bumfluff enough for taking the time to help someone you don't even know. Compared to other web forums, in my eyes, this is definitely the best! Thanks, Dave R_d0g

So the problem is that the subnav is not being contained within my container like my main navigation menu. It's basically starting the measurement off the top corner. Moving the browser window bigger and smaller is moving the subnav to the right and left. I thought that everything on my CSS style would be contained where I needed it to be but I guess that's not the case, beginners mistake. Is there a way to fix that position where I need it? ElanMan- Thanks for the help today.

I just checked Opera to and this is what I got Weird? I'm checking them out on: Safari 3.1.1 Firefox 2.0.0.14 Opera 9.2.1

I changed #nav li:hover ul{ visibility:visible; top:325px; left:200px to #nav li:hover ul{ visibility:visible; top:325px; left:390px Works great in safari but Firefox it's kind of over towards the left see screen shots: Firefox Safari

Thanks ElanMan! It does work better but not quite right at least when I check it. What still happening is: Safari: The subnavs are directly under the navigation. When I roll my mouse over gallery the subnavs appear directly under the main navigation area. So the last line in my main navigation is "contacts" then the text "logos" appears directly under. Firefox: When I roll my mouse over the text "gallery," the subnavs appear to the left about 100px? Weird? I do appreciate the help!

Here you go. vinylrocketcreativegrp4.zip

Do you have an email or should I just place it on here as an attachment? Oh, BTW- thanks!

Not yet but I can zip it and email it?

After a little tweaking it's kind of working but now the question is how do I get it to be positioned next to the main navigation? My main navigation is center page but the drop downs are at the top of the page?

Hello all.... Getting closer to finishing up my first site. Thanks to bumfluff my gallery works! Now one last items is to get a drop down menu from my navigation for the different galleries. I'm on the alistapart website reading through some of there tutorials but it doesn't seem to work. I tried this one Hybrid CSS Dropdown without the border though... but it didn't work and ended up with some bad coding affecting both Safari and Foxfire in different ways. Both not working at all. Can someone review my code to see what I need to add or delete so that under my gallery tab I get 3 subnavs for logos, products and photography? Here is what I have for my navigation: <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="index.html" title="home">company</a></li> <li><a href="aboutus.html" title="about us">about us</a></li> <li><a href="services.html" title="services">services</a></li> <li><a href="gallery.html" title="gallery">gallery</a> <ul> <li><a href="logos.html" title="logos">logos</a></li> <li><a href="products.html" title="products">products</a></li> <li><a href="photography.html" title="photography">photography</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="clients.html" title="clients">clients</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html" title="contact us">contact us</a></li> </ul> </div> Here is my CSS: } #nav { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; } #nav li { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: url(bullet.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 0px 50%; } #nav li a:link, #nav li a:visited, #nav li a:active { color: #1E4164; text-decoration: none; display: block; margin: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 15px; width: 130px; } #nav li a:hover { color: #E66D21; text-decoration: none; } #nav ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; width: none; } #nav ul li { position: relative; } #nav li ul { position: absolute; left: 129px; top: 0; display: none; } #nav li:hover ul, li.over ul { display: block; Thanks, Dave R_d0g

bumfluff, Thanks, it's kind of sorta working now but not correctly. I was getting the following in the area I want my gallery to show up: requires Macromedia Flash. Get Macromedia Flash. If you have Flash installed, click to view gallery, The blue text is clickable. I pointed the click to view gallery to my gallery and it open another page with the gallery. I would like it to be on the original page much like yours does. Your portfollio is exactly they way I want mine to be. Also, why does the "requires Macromedia Flash. Get Macromedia Flash. If you have Flash installed," show up, I don't want it there?

No, that's my wonderful spelling... after changing forrmat to format it now says "SimpleViewer requires JavaScript and the Flash Player. Get Flash." but still no images? Boy after all day working with this all day, I feel so close to finishing if I could just get over this hump?

Hello again...Newbie here, Welp, I'm still working on my site thanks to this forum and it's almost done. I'm still having issues with my gallery though. This is what I have done to this point. I'm installing Simpleviewer and have downloaded the zip file. I made my thumbnails and images, placed them in there respected folders and check to see if it worked with the image.html file that was included, they do... yea. Now the problem I cut and past <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script> to the head. Then wrote where I wanted the viewer to be seen: <div id="flashcontent" align="center">SimpleViewer requires Macromedia Flash. <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer/">Get Macromedia Flash.</a> If you have Flash installed, <a href="../large_forrmat/index.html?detectflash=false">click to view gallery</a>.</div> <script type="text/javascript"> var fo = new SWFObject("viewer.swf", "viewer", "300", "480", "8", "#181818"); fo.addVariable("preloaderColor", "0xffffff"); fo.addVariable("xmlDataPath", "gallery.xml"); fo.write("flashcontent"); </script> </div> All I get on my page is "SimpleViewer requires Macromedia Flash. Get Macromedia Flash. If you have Flash installed, click to view gallery." It's in the right place just not my images? Any thoughts on this? Thanks, Dave

Thanks guys, that exactly what I'm looking for, Lightbox... I've been reading up most of today but it's not soaking in? I've read how to install it by added the Prototype Framework and Scriptaculous Effects lines in the header. <script type="text/javascript" src="js/prototype.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects,builder"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/lightbox.js"></script> Now for the Newbie questions so please bear with me here... Under the Prototype Framework and Scriptaculous Effects lines do I need to add it's own CSS to make it work? For each image I want to add within Lightbox... Where and how do I place them? How do I name the images so that they'll be active in Lightbox? How do I activate the whole thing... man I feel dumb with all this? If this is just to much can someone point me towards a pretty nontechnical site online... geees I'm brain-dead here LOL? Thanks, Dave

Hey Guys, Newbie here... I'm a Graphic Designer that's attempting to learn and develop my own website. So far I took a few Dreamweaver classes and subscribed to an online tutorial website. With a little knowledge I'm feeling good and want to start on the website ...LOL. I feel somewhat confident building the basics but when it comes to showing my portfolio online I'm not to sure about how to build it? What I like to have is some small boxes with a small portions of a design showing, when the mouse rolls over it, it highlights and when you click on it it appears. I think this might be Flash? I don't know this person but here is a link for an example of what I'd like to do... Example of what I like to do Thanks for any help and direction. Dave

Tell you the truth, it is a cold day for a lot of people around here but I'm actually from Halifax Nova Scotia so to me it's just right!

Thanks Guys for the warm...and I mean warm welcome. Rob it's only 68F today or 20c... Dave

Hi Guys from sunny San Diego, California. I'm a Graphic Designer for a long time and have been teaching myself CSS and Dreamweaver/Flash for a little bit. Looks like a great forum to get some info and help. I've been developing my own site but keep hitting stumbling blocks and will post them in the right areas. Just thought I'd say hi and introduce myself to you all. Dave R-d0g