Hello everyone: I am new to templates and dream weaver, but am not a total newb. I am looking for some help; as I am sure you'll find, my site is from a template, as I expand it beyond it's original height many of the fields and image borders are stretching and seams are forming. A good example is on (http://www.professional-lists.com/Consumer.htm) left hand side, below 'why Professional Lists' the image is separating from the image above, and the bullet points are now misaligned. How do I deal with this? Thank you in advance for any help you can offer! Lance Best
Well, first - throw dreamweaver in the trash because if it lets you do things like: </head> <link href="css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <center> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" onLoad="preloadImages();"> You don't need it. What's wrong with the above? Inlined presentation aside the stylesheet should probably be linked BEFORE you close the head and the center tag should be after the body declaration - NOT that you should even be using CENTER tags in this day and age... much less the silly 1997 style image swapping. Spacer gif's? 95k of images doing the job of 30k? pans, font tags and bold tags instead of headers? Multiple lists on the page without a single list tag to be found in the source? Meaningless class names and CSS that is little more than a confusing and redundant achor jumble? I'd have to throw out 70% of the code before I could even diagnose the 'problem' - though I suspect it's a table padding issue. MAN I hate WYSIWYG editors.
I think templates should be used by people who don't know (and don't want to know) how to build websites but have things to say, photos to show, stuff to sell, etc. Trying to change templates is a nightmare. It can be done, but the code is so convoluted it's hard to find anything, and then when you figure out what it was, changing things to fix that problem can let all sorts of new gremlins out of the box. You say you're not a total newb... is there any possibilty that you can, with a plain text editor, make something that looks very similar to the site you have now? The CSS would be the hardest part, I think.