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Never stand between a dog and a tree.

Sandy

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www.alleghenyweb.com

Can I join in please ... but on a tangent ?

I want to set a standard on my sites that ensures they can always be printed IN FULL and with no RIGHT HAND SIDE bleed off on either A4 or Letter sized portrait paper.

I too use tables almost everywhere but cannot determine a 'rule' that will enable me to 'gaurantee' that both the table contents and the LHS navigation bar - let alone a right hand side message column will always print as I want.

Trial and success usually gets me somewhere close to a solution but it takes such a looooonngg time.

Any ideas please ?

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Barrie E
Millgate Resources

PRINT RULE - all I can think of is a table with fixed width, say 600 pixels left aligned and not in a frame. Might not look great on screen though? Some big sites do sit over there on the left of the screen though.

I once saw a site that even had page breaks (big white areas!) ... but then think of the difference in size between US and International A4 (why have a standard that is NOT a standard - ring any paralles with web authoring?!)

IDEAL print rule may be a *.pdf file? What is the info you want to get accross?

Strange I always use tables with fixed pixels and very rarley with % age. I design my photosites to sit inside a 700x420 area right slap dab in the centre of the page. This keeps all those 800x600 people happy, plus I don't like scroll bars. For me, a photo site shouldn't require scroll bars. And there are a lot of people still surfing at 800x600 ... and it's all done with tables. You have complete control (other than NN inability to colour the borders correctly!)

Couple of my URLs to see what I mean:
1 - http://www.laker-abstract.com
totally unhelpful navigation 'I' and 'B' - but it is an abstract site after all ... please bear that in mind

2 - http://www.laker-images.co.uk
sorry to be a selective fan of frames, but the links page on this one has frames within frames. I think there were nine in all ... and it works for me, the frame pages are 'noindex' so should keep the spiders away

My personal and environmental approach to the net - why print anything? You can save the page to your hard disk and read it later if you need to - file it away. New computers have 60GB hard disks, plenty of room!
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PS - any comment on those websites muchly appreciated, although this is a tables thread and not in the critique folder

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