Table cell doesn't stay the same size

[ibobphotos]

Can someone take a look at

http://www.ibobphotos.com/cgi-bin/viewer.pl?view=77&cat=3

and help me get it so the left side (the robot logo and the categories section) stays stationary on the page regardless of the size of the main section? I need the left side to look like

http://www.ibobphotos.com/.

And I need it to work in both IE and FF.

 

[ibobphotos]

Okay, you can ignore that. I found the dirty way of adding P tags and aligning it to the top of the page. It seems to work perfectly now.

However, if someone knows a better approach, say a CSSish way of going about it, I'd still be interested in seeing it.

Thank you

 

[Vragabond]

Padding on top of the table cell would help with the text not overlapping the image and vertical align to the top would make it so that contents would not be vertically centered across the cell.

However, using tables for layouts will give you such headaches all the time. Redoing the page in a more modern approach would be a better idea.

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[ibobphotos]

I'm more of a developer actually, not so much a front end designer. You'd suggest a full CSS template instead of using an HTML tabled structure?

I'd have no idea where to even start on that.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Surely being a developer instead of a designer, that should give you a better idea of how to re-develop your site than if you were a designer?

Most agenst I speak to confuse web development (i.e. the actual development) and web design (i.e. doing the design that developers will implement).

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[ibobphotos]

I wouldn't say that's necessarily true. My job (and hobby) generally utilizes Perl/CGI and a MySQL database backend. I generally don't design the template of the site, those are generally supplied and I just apply the edits required to tie the two together.

This page I did create myself and it's far from perfect, it looks okay though using FireFox. The system is set up to work in any template as long as two specific HTML comment tags are found. Nothing has to be redeveloped for this image gallery, I just need to figure out how to create a cleaner face for it.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

When you say "design the template", do you mean write the HTML code? If so, I'd call that development, not design.

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[ibobphotos]

Yes I do mean write the HTML and that's what I consider a web designer. The designer creates anything front-end, be it graphics or the overall apperance of the site.

A developer does anything active- contact forms, database work, javascript addins.

Then I guess my definition gets mixed up on whether a flash person is then a designer or a developer, or both. But since HTML and CSS don't do anything, I'd call it designing.

Everyone has their own definitions and their preference on what they'd like to be called.