Template / Web Design

pSyToR · Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 5

Ok I'm not sure if it's in the good section but let's try Smile

I did some HTML before when web pages were basically 1024 and it was easy enough...

Now that display goes from 800 to 2048 it's really hard to make a page to looks good on every monitor.

Here is the basic web site I made (it's in french Wink

it's for an University Lawyer student Comitee in Environment)

http://www.ceedum.com

All was good until the President asked me to change the "Team / L'Equipe" part... she would like to have on the left side of the windows a "fixed" list with all the members name so people can click on names and just navigate in it.

So I tried with a Frame but it doesn't look good as the top Frame stays in the "center" of the windows but the bottom part get shifted with the left frame in position...

http://www.ceedum.com/trial/ceedum.html

What can be done ?

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1416 Location: Biloxi, MS

Are you going to insist on using so many frames?

pSyToR · Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 5

Like I said... When I started coding HTML Frames were a good Ideas cause basically everybody had the same display properties, so it was looking great...

I'm looking for suggestions what to do if not using frames.

I'm not insisting on using frames I need Ideas heheh Smile

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1416 Location: Biloxi, MS

I'm not saying frames are a bad thing. Just more complex especially when you want links to work a certain way.

I like plain and simple, syntactically and semantically correctly coded pages which Search Engines like.

If you have any nav menus or sidebar content that may need editing from time to time and appears on all pages, I would suggest looking into Server Side Includes (SSI).

I would normally download your pages to work on, but frame pages require more than the one page.

pSyToR · Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 5

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1416 Location: Biloxi, MS

Oh, I definitely don't want to work on your pages. Or anyone else's either. I just do so sometimes to make sure my suggested code works, but many people code their pages so badly it just plain looks bad no matter what you do.

Yes, you can fix your pages at 1024 and exclude or tick off everyone who is viewing your site in a smaller browser window. This forum is designed to 800 x 600 and works very well for everyone. Lots of space on each side, true, for those that have the "biggie" monitors at high res.