[Sussex] Any web authoring guru's on the list?

[Gareth Ablett]

Hi John,

What you want to do is basically copy the code from this URL.

http://tom.me.uk/2002/5/css-center.html

and adapt as you need.

Hop this helps.

Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

ITP Services Ltd.
http://www.itpserve.co.uk/

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John D. [mailto:big-john at dsl.pipex.com]
> Sent: 22 September 2004 12:38 pm
> To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
> Subject: [Sussex] Any web authoring guru's on the list?
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> Eon's ago, I think I mentioned about having a go at producing a
website.
> Various bit's of advice suggested that I learn to code a website by
hand
> etc etc.
> 
> So with that in mind, I've been learning various bit's of stuff about
> how to accomplish this, but I seem to have hit a bit of a brick wall!
> 
> The main part's of the site (as intended) don't seem to pose a
problem,
> but it's my intention to have a basic "welcome to" page that has a
> heading (which will be the link into the rest of the site) and rather
> naive, home produced image/logo (which looks crap, mainly because of
my
> non-existent artistic skills with the gimp, but conveys the attitude
> that I want).
> 
> Now, the basics of making the page are done, but the brick wall is how
I
> position the image. Because of some of the stuff I've been reading up
> on, I've opted for strict xhtml and for the initial page a <style>
> element as opposed to a linked style sheet (that'll be for the main
part
> of the site).
> 
> I just can't find any straight forward way of putting the image in the
> centre of the page. Sure, I could maybe use the "padding-left"
facility,
> but that doesn't overcome the problem of potential visitor's having
> different resolutions set. Obviously, the percentage of view on a
> 800x600 res setting is going to be different to the percentage of a
> 1024x768 setting etc etc.
> 
> So could anyone suggest how I might accomplish this or suggest any
good
> links where I might find something about how to do this ?
> 
> regards
> 
> John C.
> 
> p.s. I've looked into stuff at w3schools, and the only thing that
seemed
> to make sense was using the <center> option, but that was deprecated
in
> HTML 4.0 and is precluded by the use of strict xhtml 1.0
> 
> 
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