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blackbinary
06-05-2008, 02:26 AM
Alright here's the lowdown. My school is trying to make an improved school website. Sadly, our teacher doesn't know that much, so I'm the 'expert'.

This will actually be used as our schools website if we get it working, that's why its pretty dang important.

Now, I'm using Photoshop CS3 and Dreamweaver CS3 to do this with, and I'm somewhat familiar with CSS.

Heres the problem;

I have a left side navigation column, a banner on top, an image to the left but big, and a content area right underneath (you'll see when you open the file)

Now the problem is, I want it to repeat to be as long as needed, but no idea how to do it (I can do it fine when its just one content area, but something complicated like this is hard!)

Could someone enlighten me?:confused:

Also, with so many slices, it seems like this will be complicated to setup aswell, so any help with that is also appreciated.

Thank-you very much! :thumbsup:

Here is a link to what the website will somewhat-look like. You can see how I plan to lay it out.

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3633/examplewebsitetu9.jpg

Again, Thanks!
jcdevelopment
06-05-2008, 03:32 AM
What exactly do you want to repeat as long as need be, "Image here" or "news"? If you can post some code that you have for your site. Is there a way you can also post a picture of how you want it to be?

We will be happy to help you with whatever you need. Just let us know.
tomws
06-05-2008, 04:56 AM
I have a left side navigation column, a banner on top, an image to the left but big, and a content area right underneath (you'll see when you open the file)

Now the problem is, I want it to repeat to be as long as needed, but no idea how to do it (I can do it fine when its just one content area, but something complicated like this is hard!)

Could someone enlighten me?:confused:

If you're talking about the 'news' and 'important info' areas, getting them to be long enough to contain all of the necessary information isn't a problem. As long as your containing div doesn't have a fixed height, then it will stretch to hold the content.

For what it's worth, you may be better off looking into a content management system like Drupal or Joomla (websites in a box, essentially... only with no box) especially if 'non-specialists' like the assistant principal or the spanish teacher will be updating content.
effpeetee
06-05-2008, 06:36 AM
Look here for lots of help. (http://exitfegs.co.uk/Sources.html)

It's best if you have a go and contact us with your url or the complete code when you have a query, so that we can see where you are going and how best to help you.

Frank
blackbinary
06-06-2008, 01:10 AM
What I want, more specifically is to have them the same length. So if news has to stretch for 3 miles down the page, info will be right there beside it, even if it doesn't have content all that way. Understand my problem?
abduraooft
06-06-2008, 01:56 AM
You may need to use faux columns (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/)
blackbinary
06-06-2008, 02:17 AM
I'm not sure how faux columns would work for this. The trick is the image in that corner, isn't it? Could you post an example similar to my layout please?
effpeetee
06-06-2008, 12:42 PM
Save this to your base address. http://exitfegs.co.uk/equalcolumns.js This needs to be modified to suit your set up.

and add this in the <head> section of your page.

<script src="equalcolumns.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!-- CSS Equal Columns Height script (v1.01) - By ddadmin --> Keep these two lines together.

and read this article.


Equal columns article is here. (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/blog/entry/css-equal-columns-height-script/)

Look here to see it in use. (http://exitfegs.co.uk/Sources.html)



Frank