why?

[Gizo]

ok I have a page for my caravan park designed in live view and preview it looks good, when I look at it in design view the navigation bar jumps down? I am using dreamweaver cs5.
it looks fine a browser and live view, but in the design view ti looks a bit confusing? why would it do this?
I am coding this site manually and not in design view.

 

[d a v e]

because DW preview isn't perfect? it's a bit of a mish mash and as long as it's fine in browsers then don't worry

you could make your right panels slightly narrower if that helps (click and drag the left side)

 

[ronaldroe]

My guess would be that the blue borders Dw adds in design view are making the menu items too wide.

 

[Gizo]

thanks guys,

I have added an id of navbuttons to each of the buttons and reduced the width by 1px using css and it now looks fine.

I would like to get some feedback on this site if possible, this is my first attempt at design and producing a website. I saw the website review topics but I do not have anywhere to publish this site yet.

I am also working on another site which will be published before this one which will be on fly tying.

as I am learning at this stage I will tear down and rebuild a few times before I am ready, this is all just learning for me

 

[ronaldroe]

Post some larger images of the full page.

 

[DHDdirect]

I'd also validate your code using the following links (pages must be live). Many times code can display correctly but not in all browsers with one of those browsers being Dreamweaver.

[URL]http://validator.w3.org[/URL]
[URL]http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator[/URL]

But I also agree with dave ;-)

 

[Gizo]

here is my site (hope this displays correctly) I will pu it in the reviews section as well.

 

[ronaldroe]

Not a bad site. Couple of things I'd look at:

Different font for the header. Something a little more scripty.

Add some padding to the left and right of the content area.

On the row of images, it might look a little better to make the left and right-most borders the same width as the rest of the borders.

Still, not a bad layout.