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crgyro2002
01-15-2007, 03:36 AM
Hi, I designed a website using a template I had found on the internet for my senior project at college. I think I did a pretty good job, not really knowing too much about CSS, but editing elements to suit my layout purpose. Needless to say, my major was in International Studies, not IT.

Anyway, in revisiting my site late this fall (I had originally done this Spring 2006), I discovered that my layout was overlapping at the top, and my footer had also moved itself to the top as well. Well, I'm finally getting a chance to fix it, but don't really know what to do. The coding since the spring has not changed, although its appearance obviously has. From what I've been able to find out, it appears that the code standards may have changed this fall (or perhaps with new browsers the page is being read differently?)

Anyway, these are the things that are happening (that should not be, as I said, this coding used to work just fine):
- 1 line of white space at top of header
- header (Equitable Sustainable Conservation: Coral Reefs and Mangroves) is overlapping bar (email, school & class info)
- footer is at the top of page (c 2006...)
- left column should be all blue all the way down to the footer/bottom of the page

The problem appears to be with the footer placement (as the blue (in the left column) would carry down to it normally, but since it's at the top of the page, it stops with the text. Any help in correcting this would be greatly appreciated. This is not an assignment of any kind, I would simply like to fix the work I have previously done, as future senior seminars will be looking at it this spring and beyond.

The site: http://www-pub.naz.edu:9000/~jmetz3/
CSS StyleSheets: http://www-pub.naz.edu:9000/~jmetz3/2c-hd-ft-fixed-layout.css
http://www-pub.naz.edu:9000/~jmetz3/2c-hd-ft-fixed-presentation.css

Any and all help that could be provided would be greatly appreciated! I have a feeling it's a pretty simple fix, but I'm not even sure where to begin.

-Josh

As an additional note, this problem occurs in both IE and FF, so it's not an isolated issue

Excavator
01-15-2007, 06:37 PM
Hello crgyro2002,
Your right, pretty easy fix but there were so many I just upped the whole site to http://www.nopeople.com/mangrove/Equitable%20Sustainable%20Conservation%20%20Coral%20Reefs%20&%20Mangroves.htm

I just closed some divs and removed some margins.

It looks pretty good now exept:
-It still doesn't quite validate and your menus could use some work.
-You use <br> way too much


(My wife and I love the mangroves in Costa Rica)

crgyro2002
01-15-2007, 07:08 PM
Thank you so much Excavator! You really have no idea how much I truly appreciate your help. I'll be taking a look at the changes you made to the actual page itself tonight, and can hopefully update the rest of the pages to look good as well.
Yeah, I know I used <br> a lot and that the coding itself wasn't exactly all that great. It was difficult because I was just looking for a change from what Frontpage could provide (what our professor really wanted us to use at the time because "it's easiest"), so I was most concerned with getting it to look the way I wanted (which it did, for about 6-7 months), performing like a report more than a webpage.
I'm glad you love Costa Rica. My experiences there (trips in 2001, 2002, and 2006) along with the Tsunami were really my inspiration for the project.

Once again, thank you for your help!

-Josh