Mark Parnell <webmaster@clarkecomputers.com.au> wrote in message news:<tw46lvdoce29$.7qtea5je8y2a.dlg@40tude.net>.. .[color=blue]
> Sometime around 2 Nov 2003 21:14:11 -0800, Mark Constant is reported to
> have stated:
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> > This is going to be hard to explain so please bear with me.[/color]
>
> OK....
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> > I have a webpage[/color]
>
> I follow you so far. :-)
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> > that contains one big table that I want to enclose everything
> > in.[/color]
>
> Why?
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> > The table is broken up into 2 main rows. One contains my GIF[/color]
>
> PNG is better than GIF in most cases. :-)
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> > banner. The second row contains two columns. The first column contains
> > 8 subrows and the second column spans the 8 subrows. When I add a
> > table to my second column and resize it it resizes the rows in the
> > second column. How can I make it so putting something in the second
> > column doesn't effect the first column? Is there a way to lock a row?[/color]
>
> Doesn't sound like tabular data to me.
>
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts
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> > Here is my code.
> >
> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">[/color]
>
> That Doctype won't trigger standards compliant mode in most browsers. You
> need to use the full DTD (including URI), or use Strict instead of
> Transitional (which you should be doing if this is a new page, anyway).
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> > <HTML>
> > <HEAD>
> > <title>index</title>[/color]
>
> That's not a very descriptive title.
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> > <meta content="Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 7.0" name="GENERATOR">
> > <meta content="Visual Basic 7.0" name="CODE_LANGUAGE">
> > <meta content="JavaScript" name="vs_defaultClientScript">
> > <meta content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5"
> > name="vs_targetSchema">[/color]
>
> These meta tags are all pointless - get rid of them. And while you're at
> it, get a decent program to write your site in. Anything not by Microsoft
> would be a good start.
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> > <STYLE type="text/css">[/color]
>
> This section would be better placed in an external style sheet.
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> > A:link { TEXT-DECORATION: none }
> > A:visited { TEXT-DECORATION: none }
> > A:active { TEXT-DECORATION: none }
> > A:hover { TEXT-DECORATION: underline }[/color]
>
> So your visitor can't tell that a link is a link until they happen to run
> the mouse over the top of it?
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/links.html
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> > BODY { SCROLLBAR-FACE-COLOR: buttonface; SCROLLBAR-HIGHLIGHT-COLOR:
> > #999999; SCROLLBAR-SHADOW-COLOR: #999999; SCROLLBAR-ARROW-COLOR:
> > #999999; SCROLLBAR-TRACK-COLOR: buttonface;
> > SCROLLBAR-DARKSHADOW-COLOR: black; SCROLLBAR-BASE-COLOR: buttonface }[/color]
>
> The scrollbar is part of *my* browser, not your page. Treat it
> appropriately.
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> > </STYLE>
> > </HEAD>
> > <body bgColor="buttonshadow">[/color]
>
> bgcolor has been deprecated in favour of CSS, and "buttonshadow" is not be
> a valid value for it anyway.
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> > <form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">[/color]
>
> Why is your entire page in an invalid form?
>
> <snip>
>
> I'm not even going to attempt to go through the rest of the code.
>
> HTH[/color]
Okay so I decided to implement some of your suggestions. All my links
are now underlined. I got rid of every MetaTag that was generated by
..NET. I enclosed all of my stylesheet into a seperate document. I put
the full URI and put it into strict mode instead of transitional. I
also added a more descriptive Title. I got rid of ButtonShadow for
bgColor and set my background color using CSS instead. I only have two
questions. Why are you saying that the page is in an invalid form?
Also since I put the page into strict mode it has added a space after
the banner. How do I get rid of the space?
Cells resize 
