Hi all...

I'm working on a site and have run into two complications. The first is regarding a navigation menu I implemented... I essentially just want to center the menu in the DIV, but can't figure out how. I've tried changing the DIV style, etc. but to no avail.

The second problem is I integrated a Google custom search and when the results pop up and overlay the site, a flash image rotator I'm using comes up with it.

You can see the problems in action here:
http://www.foothillsbaptist.org/new08/

Any help is appreciated.. thanks!

I essentially just want to center the menu in the DIV, but can't figure out how.

To center the menu you should first give it a width. Then center it with margin:0 auto; or with absolute positioning.
Example code:

#slatenav {
width:700px;
display:block;

/* to center use */
margin:0 auto;
/* but this doesn't work in older browsers, including IE6 so you could use absolute positioning in place: */
position:absolute;
left:50%;
margin-left:-350px; /* this value needs to be -1 * WIDTH / 2 */
}

<div id="blue">
<div id="slatenav">
<ul id="countrytabs">
<li><a>foo</a></li>
<li><a>foo</a></li>
<li><a>foo</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

Something in general:
I saw you use many div's but also still a lot of table's for designing issues ... remove the table's and get ride of the font-tags by replacing them with CSS. This would improve your site in general.

Not seeing the second problem. Did you fix it?

Originally Posted by wayfarer07

Not seeing the second problem. Did you fix it?

I didn't do anything... maybe it was a temporary bug of some sort?

Something in general:
I saw you use many div's but also still a lot of table's for designing issues ... remove the table's and get ride of the font-tags by replacing them with CSS. This would improve your site in general.

I'm pretty behind the curve in my design and I know my code is littered with imperfections... I use FrontPage 03 for most of the work and then edit the code by hand when needed... do you think this transition would be doable using that software still?

Thanks for all the help

My experiences with Frontepage are'nt positive, but I only used a previous version years ago, so my opinion my not be as objective as you want. I'm a bit against the use of any kind of WYSIWYG-editor for websites, just because with websites it's ( according to markup) NOT about what you SEE, but about what you HAVE.

I can't say if it's doable using that software, but if it isn't ... Why should you not improve your website just because the software you use at this moment isn't skilful enough to handle it?

Originally Posted by bas

My experiences with Frontepage are'nt positive, but I only used a previous version years ago, so my opinion my not be as objective as you want. I'm a bit against the use of any kind of WYSIWYG-editor for websites, just because with websites it's ( according to markup) NOT about what you SEE, but about what you HAVE.

I can't say if it's doable using that software, but if it isn't ... Why should you not improve your website just because the software you use at this moment isn't skilful enough to handle it?

Well that's the thing.. I'd love to improve the site.. but I don't know if I'm skillful enough to do something as good without the editor..

I appreciate your guidance though

As far as I know, FrontPage does not have WYSIWYG features for doing table-less layout, which are better done by hand anyway. FrontPage produces pretty awful code, requires FrontPage extensions to be loaded on any server in order to run (if used the way it is designed), and is, in general, a bad tool for administering anything that needs a database to operate.