hi there.

I have read the files on customizing. i have put my picture in and the menu links default to the middle but i want know how to place these where i want them. what code controils where they are placed?

In the notes i dont understand how i can put a column down the side when you start the coding in the header and finish it in the footer!

if that makes sense and you can help it would be appreciated.

dave

Hopefyll you're talking about the alignment of the navigation at the top of the forum.

Dont forget to use BR tags before and after the table.. if you don't it can cause placement to be incorrect in IE6 (I dont use other browsers).  I recently created my own menu and ran into this problem..  when I didn't use the br tags it would cause errors in the way the hyper links were working, cause the link trail to be over the top of the nav.. etc. 

So I suggest exactly what Borg said, except place <BR> above and below the table.

To add a colum down the side you would need to add another column to the table Borg created above.

Code in the Header:

<table width="100%">
 <tr>
  <td width="150">
   Navigation Menu
   Place html for navigation here!
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>

The width="150" part specifies how many pixels wide you want the navigation to be.  The width="100%" part specifies that you want the table to use all the screen's real estate.

Code in footer:

   </td>
  </tr>
</table>

The above code would provide the basic shell for a navigation bar on the left hand side of the screen, with the forum appearing to the right of the navigation.

If you wanted a right hand column, add the code in red to the footer similar to how it is added to the header.

There are other attributes you can add.  If you need more information, you can do research on web about creating html tables.

Excellent, all the above code works great- thankyou all for help in this. it looks just the way i want it to , I have now swapped from the layout to the .css customizing- it's fun. I am experimenting with the .css as never done this before, its going well.

Tahnks for your help again!

David.

Hi, I tried to use the code here, but my form seems to be pushed down to the bottom. Did I do something wrong?!

Here are the code I have in my header and footer, and I also post a image of my what I see on my form.

Here is the code I have in my header.asp
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<table width="100%">
 <tr><table width="750%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
      <td height="200" bgcolor="#99FFFF">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

  <td width="150">
   <table width="150" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
        <td height="300" bgcolor="#99CCFF">&nbsp; </td>
  </tr>
</table>
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>
-----------------------------------------

footer.asp
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</td>
  </tr>
</table>
------------------------------------------

Anyone got a working example of the footer and header

• You can't build this on the floor so you need to put it up on the <table>

• Rows are = to <tr> and they go from side to side
  

• Columns are = to <td> and they go from top to bottom
• You need to / (close) each table, row or column when your done.
  

Begin Header.asp <table Width="98%"> <tr width="100%"> <td align="center" colspan="3"> (row will span 3 columns) Put the upper menu bar here. A single row, 1 column </td> </tr> <tr width="100%"> Beginning of second row <td valign="top" Width="15%"> Left Side Nav here. The first of 3 columns in this row </td> <td> ------------------------------------------------------ Ok, now leave this are blank, this is where the forum itself will be placed. This is the end of the header and the beginning of the footer ------------------------------------------------------ Begin Footer.asp </td> <td valign="top" width="10%"> Right Margin, the third column is here </td> </tr> Now we close the row </table> and close the table <!-- footer --> </body> </html>