Yep, that will start things off. Also, This will also.
Your index.html file
Code:
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>puter haters trial</title>
<meta http-equiv="generator" content="PHP Designer 2005" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="layout1.css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
<div id="header">
<p>Header - Centre column longest - footer at bottom of document.</p>
</div>
<div id="left">
<p>Left Content goes here :</p>
<p>Can be a menu bar if needed</p>
</div>
<div id="right">
<p>Right content goes here :</p>
</div>
<div id="centrecontent">
<table class="table1" border="1">
<tr>
<td>Centre Content Goes Here.
<p>Keep writing</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>And more</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>And still more</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Testing scroll.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div id="clearfooter">
</div>
<!-- to clear footer -->
</div>
<!-- end outer div -->
<div id="footer">
-Footer -
</div>
</body>
</html> Your stylesheet.css file
Code:
.table1 {
background-color: #ffffff;
width: 100%;
} Your layout.css file
Code:
html, body {height:100%}
body {
padding:0;
margin:0;
background-image: url(images/background1.gif);
/* Can fix background image if needed */
background-attachment: fixed;
}
#outer{
height:100%;
min-height:100%;
margin-left:130px;
margin-right:130px;
background:transparent;
border-left:1px solid #000;
border-right:1px solid #000;
margin-bottom:-52px;
color: #000000;
}
html>body #outer{height:auto;} /*for mozilla as IE treats height as min-height anyway*/
#header{
background-color: transparent;
border-top:1px solid #000;
border-bottom:1px solid #000;
color: #000;
text-align:center;
position:relative;
margin:0 -131px;
padding-top:56px;
}
/* mac hide \*/
* html #header{height:56px;he\ight:10px}/* height needed for ie to force layout*/
/* end hide*/
#left {
position:relative;/*ie needs this to show float */
width:130px;/* same as the left margin on #outer*/
float:left;
margin-left:-129px;/*must be 1px less than width otherwise won't push footer down */
padding-top:72px;/*needed to make room for header*/
left:-2px;/* push column into position*/
}
#left p {padding-left:2px;padding-right:2px}
#right p {padding-left:2px;padding-right:2px}
#right {
position:relative;/*ie needs this to show float */
width:130px;/* same as right margin on #outer*/
float:right;
margin-right:-129px;/*must be 1px less than width otherwise won't push footer down */
padding-top:72px;/*needed to make room for header*/
left:2px;/* push column into position*/
background: #ffffff;
}
#footer {
width:100%;
clear:both;
height:50px;
border-top:1px solid #000;
border-bottom:1px solid #000;
background-color: #FF8080;
color: #000000;
text-align:center;
position:relative;
}
* html #footer {/*only ie gets this style*/
\height:52px;/* for ie5 */
he\ight:50px;/* for ie6 */
}
#clearfooter{clear:both;height:40px;}/*needed to make room for footer*/
div,p {margin-top:0}/*clear top margin for mozilla*/
* html #centrecontent {height:1%;margin-bottom:12px}/* combat IE's 3 pixel jog */ Make a new folder, and copy and paste the different codes here with notepad saving them in the folder and naming them as suggested. Open an images folder inside the filder holding your files. Put the attached .gif image in the images folder and off you go.
You can open the index.html file in frontpage. It will look funny in the 'normal window but you will still be able to edit it there. When you look at it in preview or in your browser, it will look ok.
If you are going to do a lot of pages on your site, I would suggest that you look into php scripting. that way, you can easily include and modify such things as menu bars and other repetitive items easily.
If you need an idea of how to go about this, there are plenty of people here that can guide you through this or you can always pm me.
Have fun.
Oops: Attachment too big. You can get it here.
http://www.udi.com.au/bgimage/background1.gif