Trying to use frames in Dreamweaver

It is July 2004. If you're not using style sheets and PHP where appropriate, then you do not deserve to live. Get out of the business and work at some more appropriate job at Starbucks or something. I don't think it's asking too much to paint a scarlet letter "D" on people who use Dreamweaver. I am not the only one that believes this.

style sheets, yes. php: well this depends on what you're developing. I'd love to use php on the sites we use at work but they (the security people) refuse to allow it. so we don't. we use it in development for dynamic sites. sometimes it makes things more complicated than they need to be, though.

The assumption you're making is that the "designer" in question is an actual professional web designer and not some grad student who thinks that Dreamweaver is just like PageMaker.

I still blame Dreamweaver for creating nasty code.

and as for blaming things on Dreamweaver, I do think that beginners relying on Dreamweaver can magnify bad habits, but that's more along the lines of giving a novice driver the keys to a semi (i.e. you shouldn't really blame the truck).

I *think* that started with MX 2004. I'm trying to fix a MX site and it has percentages in the tables.

im gonna sound like numbnuts webguy101 here but hope someone can help - im making a website for myself and want it to look clean and simple, kinda like this one:
http://www.ronitzilkha . com/

ive got the box in the middle of the screen and buttons on the side, but how can i make the middle box have a scroll bar? when i try to stick content in using dreamweaver it just extends the whole thing down - how do i make that central panel stick to the original dimensions?

ive learned most things i need by picking apart other websites but this is the one thing ive stuck on, haven't got a clue what to look for in the manual either

i would strongly recommend NOT using this method. you don't even need a scrollbar on that ronitzilka site for the amount of scrolling required.

basically only go for the letterbox style if you've not got much text to display. you're better off having it extend down with scrollbar on the right edge of the whole page otherwise.

yeah you're prob right. tried it that way and it looks pretty good actually, thanks!

only thing is i dont want each separate page to be a different height as it'll look all daft and wonky when clicking between them. is there a good way of working around this? (the framework of my webpage is about 50% bigger than that site i linked to)

there are javascript tricks for that kind of thing but you probably don't want to get bogged down in that. you could try and ensure the word count for each page is roughly the same i guess. hard to say without seeing it - send us a link if you want.

Don't try to force a print mindset on the Web. If you try to fix the width of, what's going to happen when users make the font larger? Don't sacrifice usability for design. In the end that just compromises your content.