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[garby74]

Hi Guys I very new here and a novice to web design etc.
I have just built my uncle a website.
I have a few problems that are causing me enormous problems.
I have tried to sort them out with the aid of books and the web but so far have failed. I have almost given up but thought I would try this forum. Your input would be greatly apre.


luxury cornwall cottages co uk

1 - I cannot work out how to lock the title and menu easily.
When the site is opened in Opra the menu moves down. The same happens when Cahed in google. The menu shifts down!!
2- I have had problems centring the whole website - in some browsers the site hangs to the right.
3- I have spent weeks trying to incorporate a form into the contact page. I have been trying to incorporte the formmail form but the instructions are just to confusing. I have ended up sending my customers to a crap page that cannot be styled properly.
I have spent more time and wasted effort on these three elements than the whole website.

Any input very welcome
Thank you
Wayne

[joe davis]

hey all tell me what type of codings are this,can anyone explain this for me

[barlow1984]

Your site doesn't work well in IE6 either.

That top nav is pretty primitive coding, would it not be better to make a css one? Or at least get one from a site.

As for the other stuff, you always want your header at the top even when you scroll? I wouldn't bother, it's just annoying and what it the viewable area on my rubbish low res pc is almost zero?

I'll look at the centering when I get home tonight, there is a way to do it using auto margins with a wrapper div.

Where is your attempt at a form? There are loads of tutorials on how to do this.

[garby74]

Hi Barlow,
Thank you for taking the time.
I know the nav is very basic. I will take a look at this over the weekend.

I have sorted out the centering of the site. I did a couple of tutorials on you tube on div tags etc. The problem is with the style sheet mixing absolute and rel positioning. Easy once you know where to look.

The form is basically the free form mail from matts script archive.
It can be found on my contacts page - but you have to 'Click a tab' which takes you to a cgi script that contains some basic HTML.
I have tried to make it look more like my web page!

My host package supplies a version free that resides in my root under forms. The problem is the page is a CGI.
I cannot for the life of me work out hoe to embed this im one of my pages.
Regards

[googler]

From experience I highly recommend you use Tectite form mail. It is similar to Matt's but easier to set up and much more secure:
http://www.tectite.com/formmailpage.php

They will even set it up for you for a small fee.

check this out for a cool way to make horizontal navigations using list elements: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/

for your current form, You should also be able to copy the html between the <form> tags and copy paste it into your contact page. Just update the URLS inside the form to point at the right folders

<form action="/form/FormMail.cgi" method="post">          <div align="center">      <table>                <tr>                    <td>             <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="This is a test" />                         <!-- This section must remain the same for Captcha support. -->             <input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="sales@luxurycornwallcottages.co.uk" />             <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://luxurycornwallcottages.co.uk/thank-you.html" />             <input type="hidden" name="captcha-md5sum" value="307233d7f7410221e16e56afe828beaa" />              <label>Email Address: </label>          </td>         <td>             <input type="text" size="20" name="email">          </td>       </tr>       <tr>         <td><label>Name: </label>         </td>          <td><input type="text" size="20" name="realname">         </td>       </tr>       <tr>                                  <!-- End section -->                 <!-- You can add extra form items here --> 	    <td>             <label>Telephone: </label>          </td>          <td>             <input name="telephone" type="text" id="telephone" size="20">          </td>       </tr>                  <td style="vertical-align: top;">             <label>Message: </label>          </td>       <td>             <textarea name="message" style="height: 120px; width: 300px;"></textarea>          </td>        </tr>       <tr>          <!-- The following section must stay here for Captcha support. -->                    <td colspan="2">Please enter the image verification code below.</td>       </tr>       <tr>                    <td><img src="/form/img/307233d7f7410221e16e56afe828beaa.png" /></td>         <td>              <input type="text" size="20" name="captcha-text" id="captcha-text" />          </td>       </tr>                <!-- End section -->                 <tr>                    <td>&nbsp;</td>         <td>&nbsp;</td>       </tr>                 <tr>                    <td>             <input value="Submit Comments" type="submit" />          </td>         <td>             <input value="Clear Form" type="reset" />          </td>       </tr>     </table>   </div>  </form>

[barlow1984]

There we go then, sorted!

[garby74]

Thanks again guys for taking the time.
I see what you mean about ie 6.
when I first tested all was fine, clearly not now.
More work needed
Cheers