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oraclewiz Posts: 41 Joined: 10/31/2003 Status: offline	My "Includes Top" has a Compound Fracture - 5/11/2008 15:49:37 My top "Includes" is all screwed up on http://www.oraclewiz.com/ (here is the Tom Brunt original design. http://216.82.93.30/agent_orange_flash/home.htm I guess when I added text to the Include I added too much or messed up the alignment. How do I get the correct "Top Include " folder shown below (I think this is the text below) back into my includes folder to replace the messed up version . td width="220"><!--mstheme--><font face="Verdana"><img border="0" src="images/logo1.jpg" alt="logo1" width="220" height="54"><!--mstheme--></font></td> <td width="21"><!--mstheme--><font face="Verdana"><img border="0" src="images/logo_shim1.jpg" width="21" height="54"><!--mstheme--></font></td> <td width="100%" background="images/right_1_bg.jpg"><!--mstheme--><font face="Verdana"><!--webbot bot="Include" U-Include="_includes/site_name.htm" TAG="BODY" startspan --><!--mstheme--></font><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="100%"> <tr> Thanks Frank

jaybee

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RE: My "Includes Top" has a Compound Fracture - 5/11/2008 16:57:39

You've replaced

quote:

Site Name Here

with two lines of text in a different font size. Looking at it, you've added one line that's so long, it's wrapped and so you've shrunk the font to try and get it all in.

You've replaced

quote:

A very short slogan no longer than this.

with something much longer than that. There is a good reason why it says "no longer than this".

You've then stuck a pink and black swirly thing, which BTW clashes with the rest of the template, at the top of the menu.

By doing all of the above you have broken the layout and that's why nothing lines up.

The two top text areas are for site name and a short tag line, not for trying to keyword stuff. Why put all this lot?

quote:

Municipal Leasing --Fire Truck Leasing--
Modular Building Leasing and Financing
financing equipment-leasing
Municipal Leasing- Fire Truck Leasing-Municipal Financing-

The bold bit has wrapped round and vanished under the graphic on the left. You've got all of this in the page immediately below the heading, and in the body of the page, many times. You don't need to stuff the heading.

Start again with the original template.

Replace
Site Name Here with Municipal Asset Management, don't change the font.

replace
A very short slogan no longer than this.
with
30+ years of Industry Experience

Don't put the pink and black swirly thing in above the menu.

_____________________________

If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is.

GAWDS
Now where did I put that Doctype?

(in reply to oraclewiz)


oraclewiz Posts: 41 Joined: 10/31/2003 Status: offline	RE: My "Includes Top" has a Compound Fracture - 5/12/2008 10:45:53 Thank you Jaybee for your complete analysis of how my quest for keywords at the top and graphic crap put a knife in the template. You can really explain things so even an rookie can understand. One final favor if you will. I like the effect of websites that have their page narrower than the screen and placed on a background color that borders the page. It seems like a layer under the page. Again thanks for your help Jaybee Frank (in reply to jaybee)


jaybee Posts: 14191 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: My "Includes Top" has a Compound Fracture - 5/12/2008 12:46:38 LOL. The page breaking was the easy bit. As to centered 80% screen width, I suspect if you try that you'll get in a worse mess than you were before. OK, this is technical stuff so start with Tom's original page but for heavens sake take a copy before you do anything else. Open the page and go to code view. You're looking for a line IDENTICAL to the following. Almost the same is not good enough, must be identical. It should be near the top of the page either in the main page or the include. Can't tell from page source. <!--mstheme--><font face="Verdana"><!--mstheme--></font><table style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> Got it? Right we need to make some changes, be careful, check and double check what you've typed and don't change anything else. Where it says width="100%"> change it to width="85%" align="center"> don't forget the quotes and don't lose the > off the end. save the page then look at it in preview, it should now be in the middle with a plain border down each side. _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to oraclewiz)

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