Hi a strange question but i would like to place banners down both sides of my site but i am not sure how to. my site is www.caravanineurope.co.uk and you will see where ii can add them. thanks
Hi deb0and, I'm assuming you want to put 'banners' down either side of your existing page layout - making it effectively three 'columns' with the existing site as the large centre column, yes? It's relatively straightforward; at present the whole site is within a <div> id 'container', that is defining your 'middle' bit as 750px wide and sat in the middle of the screen. What I'd do is create three new div classes, a left, a right and a middle and put them inside this existing div id container. You'd modify the definition for #container to make it wider, allowing for the sides, define the widths and other properties for the three new divs and you're done. I have to say that adding columns on both sides will either make the site quite wide or they'll have to be quite narrow columns. With your content at 750px, even 100px columns (with some spacing) is going to push your width up to the 1000px mark and that'll only just display on 1024x768. 100px is quite narrow and probably won't be good for much. You may want to think about just one column either to the left or right with a more useful width around 190px, but any such decision should be taken with your visitors screen resolution in mind. The caravaning crowd might well have a higher than average percentage of 800x600 users. I feel a bit churlish to point it out, but your site is quite a long way from being either XHTML or CSS valid but you're displaying the icons at the base of the page. Hope some of this helps. Jon
Another thing he could do is not have that set width on the middle, but instead give it side margins equal to the widths of the side columns. That could cut down on the total width of the page.