website help

[yellohut]

I'm designing a website for my wedding where people can go to get information. I have the basic layout done, but it isn't centered unless your resolution is at 1024x768. I know a little HTML and used tables to put everything together. I've been using Word 97 as a wysiwyg editor (yech).

My question, is: is there an easy way to make sure it is centered for any resolution?

here is the link:
http://home.comcast.net/~andrewandcorrie

you can check the source there to see the HTML... I'm open to suggestions and comments.

[mairving]

Pretty easy to do. If you open the page in notepad, and add the following
existing

PHP Code:

<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=952 HSPACE=12> 


change to:

PHP Code:

<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH=952 ALIGN="CENTER" HSPACE=12> 


Adding the Align=center.
And then save it making sure that you save it as a html file rather than a text file.

If you still can't figure it out, send me a PM and I can edit it for you.

[yellohut]

I changed the HTML as you suggested, so it reads exactly the same, but still no luck.

Any other ideas?

[yellohut]

and since i'm here, anyone know how i can add a hit counter to my site for free (is there some kind of code, or is it a bot that i have to download?)

[mairving]

Yeah, sorry I didn't have any time to test it before I posted. Change the table to this:

PHP Code:

<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=7 WIDTH="100%" ALIGN="CENTER" HSPACE=12> 


Changing the width to 100%. The table was centered before but since it was only at 952pixels, it would only show being centered at 952px resolution.

[mairving]

As far as the hit counter goes, do you know what your host supports CGI or PHP. Here are some CGI counters and PHP counters.

You might even add a countdown timer to the wedding date also.

Here is a site that my nephew and I did for my niece last year. May give you some ideas.

[yellohut]

I haven't had a chance to try those changes you suggest.. but I like the website you designed, did you use HTML or PHP..
and do you know of a place online where I can learn PHP?

[mairving]

There are plenty of places to learn PHP online.
Here are some links;
http://www.php.net
http://devshed.com/
http://www.zend.com/
http://phpbuilder.com/
and plenty of good books on it also.

The website was done using HTML, PHP and MySQL. My nephew did most of the design on it, I did the programming. I added a guestbook that will randomly show one of the guestbook entries on the home page. It also had a countdown timer on it that I have taken off since they got married back in January 2003.