Hello all. Can't seem to get my head round this one. I followed the instructions for custom headers and footers but ended up with a complete mess !!! If I do a basic page, content at the top, space for amember pages, then content at the bottom, split this up and make the header and footer files it all looks great. Throw a couple of tables in on the left and right side and it causes chaos. I've seen links to sites in this forum that display the left and right content perfectly. Please can anyone let me know where I'm going wrong. Thankyou Andrew
When you are creating your templates for header and footer, put in EVERYTHING before you split the page - including the tables for left and right and whatever you want to have in them. Then put a marker - say the word "HERE" where you want the amember content to go, then everything above your marker is the header, everything below it is the footer. The header and footer you made will look like c*** on their own, but when they come together in a functioning page they will be fine.
Thanks for the reply Thanks, I understand the make the full page, add the 'here' text and then split the page in two above and below. This all looks great if I have a top table with logo etc (header), space below for the amember pages and then below that a table for the footer files. When I add the two tables on the left that I would like to display, 1 appears in the header and the other in the footer file, but the display of the amember page causes them to be separated. Instead of them being joined together as in the original and the blank space is on the right for the amember pages, the appearing amember pages separate the tables to the length depending on the size of the content in the amember page. Very confusing but it can be done as I've seen it on peoples sites. Would be happy just displaying the whole page within a square border (Nested table with the back one having a small padding to display the line looking like a border.) Will keep looking round for a solution . Thanks Andrew
I bet you have an extra table, column or row tag in your template. Examine the html of your of the login page as it is renderd with your current header and footer. If needed, enter that html in a syntax checker to see where the messy tag is and then remove it. Tom
Thanks Tom Thanks for the reply Tom Will look for the 'evil' tag that's caused me hours of frustration when I get out of work. While I've been here (work) I've been looking for tutorials on the web to solve this layout problem I have and came across this... http://www.dwfaq.com/Tutorials/Dynamic/SSIs.asp It's great for any new comers out there and come across this thread of mine looking for a similar solution. Will post the outcome of my problem when it's resolved. Cheers Andrew
Worked it out !!! The solution ................. Delete everything I've done and start from scratch with a copy of the table layout in the demo that's on the link. Spent ages trying to work out what was wrong with my own lay out, I could have done another 10 of them in the same time. It was definatly table related though. Thanks for the help though Andrew
Thought I'd add .............. That was causing me problems ages ago. Apart from the solution of just deleting the whole thing and starting from scratch, the main problem was the fact that I was pasting the seperate chunks of code into the new pages within Dreamweaver but keeping the standard text below that autofills the new pages, plus wasn't closing the table in the footer. Silly me I'm not surprised the pages were shifting when brought together. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> </body> </html> Thought I'd mention it incase anyone else was new to Headers and footers. Andrew