When i edit a page in Dreamweaver and use a layer the page comes up all jumbled, when viewed in different screen resolutions on any browser. Is there a way to lock a layer in place so when viewed in different screen resolutions it doesn't move around. The page is http://www.classonewatches.com/index5.htm

First of all, they are not 'layers', they are <div>s. That moldy 'layer' connotation that DW insists on holding onto is a throwback to the days of Netscape !

You really do NOT want to 'lock' things in place in most cases, especially if you want a fluid layout.

Having said that, your code is a nightmare .. a messy tag soup of old deprecated <font> tags and tables. Dump the <font> tag and lighten your pages - use CSS for specifying how your text should look.

Put a proper DOCTYPE on your document, at LEAST HTML 4.01 Transitional.

User PROPER class names, not things like 1658445-348485.. something that makes sense to humans.

There is absolutely NO need to position every div as absolute. You need to learn to use the normal document flow and get educated on how to use FLOATS.

You have a serious case of div-itis... too many divs. A <div> is a DIVision, used to organize your content.

It appears to me that you are using DW strictly in WYSIWYG mode which implies you do not know HTML, and certainly don't know CSS. I would urge you to learn both, code by hand until you have it down pat, THEN you can use DW as a tool to speed your development.

I recommend this book to get you started: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/html1/


BTW.. all that nasty tag soup is not good for SEO

LadynRed pretty much says it. Your code is garbage. The browser is running in quarks mode, which means the browser is trying to "guess" at what you mean to do.

You could eliminate half the junk on your site with a nice simple 2 column CSS layout from Blerobot. Wow there is just so much wrong with that site it is hard to help you.

If you want to try a solution anyway, your divs are absolutely positioned. I think the stuff moving around are tables aligned to the center.

I'm not trying to be mean, but you need to get back to the basics. DW will write the slopiest code if you let it. Try validating your page once. It's a nightmare.

The browser is running in quarks mode

Wow, that would mean it's invisible.. LOL.

It's in QUIRKS mode

Originally Posted by LadynRed

BTW.. all that nasty tag soup is not good for SEO

That's what I've been thinking myself ... but a couple of friends have recently told me this is an urban legend, that Googlebot is more interested in content than markup, outside of title and h1, and ignores the other tags.

Can I talk you into elaborating a bit?

Originally Posted by LadynRed

Wow, that would mean it's invisible.. LOL.

It's in QUIRKS mode

Did I ever mention the fact that I never ever won a spelling bee?

The cleaner your code, the easier it is for the SE spiders to figure out what's tag soup and what is content. The top SEO company in my city always urges clean, semantic code for the best SE results and you can't get clean code with old deprecated tag soup.

To Ladynred:
Thank you for the help and the page critism on the code, but i did not write the code, only performing SEO on the site. I was just asking a question hoping to get an answer. I don't need to know a ton about HTML and CSS to perform SEO just enough to get by and what i don't know i'll ask here.

As far as the messy soup being bad for SEO, something must be right because the site ranks:
1st page for : breitling replicas in Google
1st page for : omega replicas in Google
2nd Page for : Fake watches in Google
3rd Page for: Replica Watches in Google
2nd Page for : watch replicas in Google and so on and so on

SEO is not all about page code, there are many more factors that play into it (ie links)

BTW: I already rebuilt a new page, thanks for the help though