Ok so essentially I want a site that is centered (ex: see my forum post4cash.net/forums)

Problem is, Dreamweaver seems to want nothing more than to keep me from achieving this goal :censored: :censored: :blink: :censored: :censored:

I am using the layer system, because I have multiple levels of images that need to overlap, however I can't make all of them auto-center to the browser relative to eachother and still overlap correctly.

Also, I have tried changing the position from absolute to relative in the CSS but that doesn't help...it just removes the possibility to overlap. On top of that, I tried using one layer as a "parent" layer and centering all of the content inside (so that it would stay relative) but that didn't work either....

There has to be SOME EASY WAY that I can just make it so my website is centered...ALL aspects of it but as of right now it's just killing me cause nothing is working!!!

Do you have an example? It's to difficult to understand what you are trying to do with the overlapping.

Best example I can give you is that I have a background pattern, an image that all the content rests on, and then a flash navigation bar. I need all to sit on top of eachother in their respective positions but automatically center to the browser window.

Create a Layout table. Set its align attribute to center.

Then set its background to the image that you want for the background.

Insert your flash.

Should work

I don't know how you could do it with absolutely positioned elements. I'm pretty sure that if you use css's z-index with relatively positioned elements then they will be able to overlap.

You need to find some experts on a Dreamweaver forum to help you, or learn html and css.

<opinion>If you use a "WYSIWYG" editor (which is often not wysiwyg), you'll eventually run into something that it can't do. Besides that they generate bloated code, that, a lot of the time, isn't standards-compliant. People play around with them and claim that they're a "web designer" and make stuff that looks hideous. (Of course, they also usually know nothing about seo or marketing, so nobody visits their sites anyway... ) So if you're serious, you need to learn html, css, and maybe some php too.</opinion>

lol I think you have the wrong impression of me here... I know html, css, php, perl, javascript, so i'm hardly a "noob" here, I was just having a problem with Dreamweaver as an application. Ultimately though, I got down to the css and wrote my own little piece of code, with which I managed to successfully solve my problem

Do what pala says. Make a control/layout table (or div), that is centered, and place all your stuff inside it. Make sure the layout table has position relative, then all your absolutely positioned elements inside it will work just fine.

yeah I managed to get it to work, I just made 1 big ABSOLUTE layer (before I was trying relative) and did a little CSS work, and now it works perfectly

The one large absolutely positioned layer is most likely redundant. If you post your code we can optimize it.

there's 0 need for abs positioning here.

<div id="container">
<div id="menu">
<div id="flash"><object ///// flash here ></div>
</div>
</div>


#container { margin: 0 auto 0 auto; }
#menu { background: url(/images/bg.gif) repeat-x; }
#flash { background: trasnparent; }

simplebits.com/notebook/2004/09/08/centering.html

There's a good tutorial for CSS centering.

also, briansol, there's a typo in your code.. :0