Hi,

In my site - www.federguide.com - I have two pages which each incorporate a picture that I'd like text to wrap around - actually the text is to the left of the picture and then under the picture. I've built this using separate layers for everything (pix, text). To make it look good in IE, I need to have quite a bit of space between the text that is next to the picture and the text that is under the picture. Although this looks perfect in IE, Netscape shows all that extra space, exactly as it looks in DW.

Here are the two pages in question:

http://www.federguide.com/about_the_author.html

http://www.federguide.com/about_rhyt...oductions.html

Any ideas/suggested are much appreciated.

Thanks,
Erik

To clarify, what I mean is that I need to build in alot of extra space in DW to make it look good in IE. IE doesn't show this extra space, Netscape does.

Thanks,
Erik

I took a look at your site in both IE 6 and Netscape 7.1 and didn't see any problems. Your problem may come from the fact that each browser displays the X Y (top, right) coordinates differently, and older browsers don't really like layers at all. You could try using div tags to space things out, but you might want to resort to tables.

Hope that helps.

Kaiman

Storm King Design

Thanks. I had it set up as tables originally, but got advice from someone that alot of people who use small viewing devices (palm pilots, e-book readers. etc) don't like to view sites with tables because they have to constantly scroll back and forth, so I changed it to layers. What do you think of this anti-table theory??

Thanks again,
Erik

http://www.evolt.org/article/Tables_...yout/25/21429/
i think theres some pretty good easons why you shouldnt 'resort to tables'.

Thanks. Very helpful.

CSS is King IMO

I agree with the posts above CSS is the way to go, and will definitely be the future of design, but things are still in transistion. I don't know how many in your target audience are going to be using palm pilots to view your site - you have a better sense of that then I do. If layers are creating problems try using divs and css as the posts above reccomend, I still don't think that this will help with you wireless/palm visitors as XHTML and CSS aren't really supported by such devices yet.

If you have alot of visitors using handheld devices to view your site you might check into creating a WML/WAP (Wireless Markup Language) version of your site. You can find more info on WML at: http://www.w3schools.com/wap/.

I guess all I can say is know your target audience and go from there.

Good Luck,

Kaiman

Storm King Design

Thanks -good advice