How to code and slice a layout in Dreamweaver

[Johno]

Hey,

Can you tell me how to code a layout in Dreamweaver.

I really need to know! Can you possibly make a tutorial?

[Tomm]

www.slicingguide.com

[Judas]

Lawl you coulda just put the title of this thread into Google pls, lawl

[Sygon.]

Learn how to slice then itll bve easy to code when you have learned pm me and ill help, then after you learn how to code you learn how to code using xhtml and div.

[Johno]

I know how to slice ( Kinda )

Its just the coding!

[Sygon.]

Find the table which contains the image and then givbe it the background attribute

Background='Image Url'

Then delete the image it contains and it shud be fine

[Halting]

Depends how your planning to make your website. Are you going to be using iFrames or tables and PHP includes?

[Johno]

I would be using Expanding Tables and PHP Includes in someplaces

[Halting]

Ok. So when you click a link on the navigation it would reload the entire frame instead of just the box (IFrame) in the content area.

Well, if your going to slice it be careful because using a lot of images can slow down loading time a lot. Try using tables to position where your going to put the 'boxes' for the navigation, latest news etc and set the images for your template as the tables background image.

By the way, if you ever come across, at any time, a problem where your site looks... different in Firefox, alot of the time this simple code can solve it:

<style type="text/css">
body {
margin-top: 15px;
margin-left: 15px;
margin-right: 15px;
margin-bottom: 15px;
}
</style>

Basically because in Firefox the default margins are different to those ones set in IE. 15 should be changed until it looks about right . Though, this doesn't always solve the problem!

[Mentor]

I would be using Expanding Tables and PHP Includes in someplaces

Works better if you use real tables insted of the fictonal ones that n00bs are unable to get in to there head are normal tables