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**jont** · 30-Aug-2006, 12:10 PM

Hi Steve,

your site says best viewed at 1024x768 - I am getting horizontal scroll bars on a 19" monitor set at 1280x1024 so something is amiss

**pinbrook** · 30-Aug-2006, 12:16 PM

it does fit 1024 ie the 3 columns fit (thus the site detail) within the width, but I suspect the top image in the banner is pushing the scroll bars out.

observations about htewebsite ... there is not enough detail describing the products. ie what are they made of, what size are they

**RobSollars** · 30-Aug-2006, 12:25 PM

Hi Steve,

Your logo seems to be a jpeg whereas a gif or png would serve better. Exporting it in one of these formats will get rid of the fuzzy edges around the text whilst keeping the size down.

Also, the repeating image next to the logo would be better as a background rather than a solid image. That way, it wouldn't push the page width out beyond what it needs to be.

I hope that's of some use.

**jont** · 30-Aug-2006, 01:01 PM

Originally posted by pinbrook

it does fit 1024 ... but I suspect the top image in the banner is pushing the scroll bars out.

therefore it does not fit

**StevieJ** · 30-Aug-2006, 03:46 PM

Originally posted by jont

therefore it does not fit

Hi jont

Many thanks for the heads up - looking into ways of resolving the size problem...

**jont** · 30-Aug-2006, 03:51 PM

See you have chopped the size of the header image. To get the lattice work to scroll all the way may be an idea to chop the actual logo down to the text part and set the lattice only as a repeating background in the table cell as outlined by Rob above ... that will then scale to fit the frame

**StevieJ** · 04-Sep-2006, 02:50 PM

Thanks guys for your advice on the header, but I'm still struggling with setting the lattice as a background image that is limited to a header and not the whole page. I can chop the logo down fine, but how do I get the lattice to repeat?

Many thanks

**RobSollars** · 04-Sep-2006, 03:08 PM

In your current template, it looks like you've got something along the lines of:

Code:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="left" bgcolor="#9c8c5a">
<img src="acatalog/lamasatlogo2.gif" alt="Lamasat" border="0" height="83" width="1024">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>

</table>

This appears just after the page's <body> tag and seems to be the single image that goes across the head of the page.

You'll need to cut the header image up into two separate images: one for the logo itself and one for the repeating trellis. I'll assume that the logo is saved as 'lamasatlogo.gif' and that the trellis is 'trellis.gif'.

The code above will become:

Code:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr background="trellis.gif">
<td align="left" bgcolor="#9c8c5a">
<img src="acatalog/lamasatlogo.gif" alt="Lamasat" border="0" height="83">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>

</table>

Alternatively, this can be done using CSS, which is a much neater way of accomplishing the same effect.

If you open up Actinic.css in a text editor and add this class anywhere in the document:

Code:

.header {
	background: url("trellis.gif") top repeat-x;
}

after saving the file, you'll then need to change the code in the template so that it becomes:

Code:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr class="header">
<td align="left" bgcolor="#9c8c5a">
<img src="acatalog/lamasatlogo.gif" alt="Lamasat" border="0" height="83">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>

</table>

I'm afraid I've not tested this solution, but I'm pretty confident it should work the way it's intended to. If not, I'll be more than happy to amend it until it does

If I might make another suggestion about the site: the title on your homepage is the perfect place to embed keywords to improve your SEO, but it's not being used to its full potential currently. At the moment, it says 'Welcome', which isn't very descriptive of the page. If it can describe the contents of the page and also incorporate your keywords, it'll not only help make sense if someone adds the page to their favourites, but also help you get a better position on the search engines.

**StevieJ** · 04-Sep-2006, 03:40 PM

Wow! Thank you so much Rob - I'll give that a go. Yes I've been thinking about keywords a lot and have found a knowlegebase article about duplicating the home page and filling it with keywords to improve SEO. You can probably tell, I'm a complete novice at all this, but learning quickly.
I'm very grateful for your help...

Steve

**RobSollars** · 04-Sep-2006, 03:52 PM

Glad I could be of assistance. Let me know how it goes.

**jont** · 05-Sep-2006, 11:17 AM

Originally posted by StevieJ

found a knowlegebase article about duplicating the home page and filling it with keywords to improve SEO.

Don't let Malcom (ruralweb) see this! He will slap your wrists for sure.

Be very very careful about both duplicating pages and stuffing them with keywords - Google et al may jump on you like a tonne of bricks if not done carefully and with consideration. Best rule of thumb is do design the page to be read by a human (they are the ones going to buy) and if it looks and reads wrong to you with multiple keywords it will look wrong to a search engine.

Aplogoies if picked up the wrong end of the stick with your comments.

**fatoftheland** · 06-Sep-2006, 08:46 AM

Hi Steve

Noticed that the corner images on the main layout do not match colour-wise so the corners look odd.

if you overwrite the images in the site1 folder with these ones attached it'll solve the problem.

hope this helps.

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