Can I have some help with my website?

[machineman9]

I am using Kompozer to build a website for my cadet squadron. I have essentially just started work and I have run into a few problems/issues.

The website, for reference, IS HERE

Yes it is fairly basic, but I am getting used to building sites again, and it is a project for the squadron (so it is worth getting it done well and properly)

My issue is that, as you can see, there is a large line of hyphens but they are behind the darn white box!

How can I layer it so that the text goes in front of this box? I want this box to be in the center of the page just slightly down from the top but with the main body of the site in it. Could I make it part of the background? What would be the best way to go about it?


Any thoughts (apart from it sucks, because I already know that one lol)


Cheers

[pepper_airborne]

It's rather hard helping you since your using a WYISWYG program(What You See Is What You Get) and most, if not all decent pages are developed and designed in other packages, and largely code only, i presume your using HTML? Then it might be worth doing the graphics in a PS/PSP/GIMP like package and put it all together in HTML.

Another problem is that you want it to be centered in the page, but you never know the resolutions that your users will have, in html you can align this all respectivly, you could even scale it all up or down if you'd like.

Your current problems seems to be something with layers, try looking for a layers window or some sort of Z arrangement.

[machineman9]

Well my website should accomodate any resolutions 1024 or wider... that is how I designed it. I know the 'best' to use is 800x, but I think most people are on a higher resolution than that... I use 1440x, but it is made to work with screens 1024 or wider.

I think that is a reason why it won't work if done in a graphics program. I personally use paint.net for my editing needs... but wouldn't that cause page stretches if the background image is too large for the page?

The code is also set up for it to be centered. If I can just get the white section to go behind everything else and just not budge, then I could use some sort of method (such as tables, though they are coding horror on the source I believe) to make sure that it will always be central on the page.

I can try looking for layering. I think there was one thing about layering, if only for temporary purposes whilst editing, but I will look harder.

[pepper_airborne]

Tables are great if your only using HTML,  you just need to wrap your head around editing them correctly. I still dont get your problem about the white thingy, and i cant see anything about stretching since i dont know how the program formats the code.

1024 is a standard to develop webpages in nowdays, up to a year or 2 ago 800x600 was still the standard. In HTML you can select a bg images(background) so that it will tile across the page, no matter what resolution it is build in.

[machineman9]

Which is what I believe I have done... that background should be a tiling one.

My problem is that I need to be able to write ON the white section. Now that I think about it, using a table as the entire section and bordering it may work. I was originally trying to make the white section part of the background because otherwise writing over it means shifting it along... not like overlaying the text as I had hoped.

[pepper_airborne]

Yup, you could just make a table there that holds a background image, this should put all the text over it.