Keegan — Sat, 01 Sep 2001 22:10:16 +0000

Tania, while I stay totally away from layers (Tried that on a game site with timelines, was cool but way too code intensive moving 30 layers around, flash would have been better. Dreamweaver has a netscape resize fix that you may be unaware of, it is a command I think. It makes the browser refresh when the viewer changes their browser width or heighth

Megan — Thu, 23 Aug 2001 01:56:22 +0000

The best thing to do is to start with tables and stay with tables. Using layers themselves is messy to start with - converting them to tables just makes a big mess. If you're unsure about how to do this the best thing to do would be to save some pages from other sites so you can get an idea of how they set things up.

tania721 — Thu, 23 Aug 2001 01:50:07 +0000

Regarding which output looks the best across a range of browsers and screensizes etc...(and using Dreamweaver), would you say its best to save the layout with layers intact, or convert layers to tables and use transparent gifs and centre on the screen?

I'm relatively new to Dreamweaver and was just curious

Tania

Megan — Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:07:52 +0000

I have seen some successful layouts done with layers - A List Apart is a good example. They do seem to be a bit tricky to get working properly though - the link I gave you above has a tutorial on how to get liquid layouts with layers - I'm definitely going to go through that myself now that I remember.

Tee hee - funny story. I was taking this digital media course awhile back and the idiot instructor did one day of tables, told people they weren't that important, and jumped right into layers. No, you don't need to know how to do complex table layouts at all. Ha!

The Webmistress — Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:59:06 +0000

If you are using layers purely for positioning then my advise is don't! As it's been said above layers have some major incompatibilities and just aren't worth the hassle at the moment! It's not a problem caused by DW just layers in general.

One good thing with DW is that you can use layers to get the layout you want then use the convert layers to tables command and bing... problems solved! The layout you wanted without the problems of layers

Busy — Wed, 15 Aug 2001 01:59:08 +0000

layers isnt wide spread, well it is but its not, i made a site using layers which looked good in IE 5.0, Netscape 4.7 and 6.0 at all screen sizes (was set wide) but with css turned off or on a mac looked like, well it was just one big mess.

for the time being, use tables as layers support isnt wide spread enough yet, maybe a few more years.

or other option make 3 versions of your site, mac, ie and netscape and hope the others fit in there somewhere.

the site i did is at
http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/doodlepad/index.html if you wanna check/see it

good luck

sersun — Tue, 14 Aug 2001 03:06:21 +0000

Without seeing what's going on, here's one thing to check:

You probably want your website left-aligned in the window. If it is getting centered, the x/y locations with repect to the content will be different. There are some tricks to get around this, but I doubt it's easy with Dreamweaver.

Layers in DW

Sun, 12 Aug 2001 11:23:15 +0000

Seems to be a common problem, also which browser you are using. I had a layer pop up in Netscape in a different position from IE.
Sorry, I don't know a cure, other than writing different versions of the page with a script that can detect resolution and browser and branches correspondingly.

Mike