Structure for Web Pages

[Jeff]

i know there are 3 ways to create and organize stuff in web pages: tables,
cells, and layers. when do you use each? i have found that with layers,
they don't stay where you put them if the browser window is minimized. they
move over or wrap around. how do you get them to stay in one place?
another thing i have found is that with tables you can specify border size,
with cells you cannot.

can someone give me some basic guidelines how to use these 3 items?

 

[coreybryant]

Normally, tables / cells were made to display tabular data, but ten
years ago, that is all one had to help layout a website.

Using layers is a lot better & quicker. What you are probably doing is
using absolute positioning with the layers. Consider using relative
and let the layers fall where they are suppose to. After all, this is
what you do with tables.

Here is an interesting thread: http://www.iwdn.net/showthread.php?t=773


-Corey

 

[Jeff]

Thank you, but even when I am at relative positioning, the layers shift to
the right when I minimize the browser window. The layers seem to stay in
the same position with respect to each other, but with respect to the rest
of the page, which I have set up as a table, they move to the right. I
would have kept using layers in the beginning, and not started using tables
at all, but I couldn't get the layers to stay put. That's why I started
using tables and cells.

 

[Jeff]

Relative positioning doesn't seem to do it. The layers still shift when I
shrink the browser. Can anybody help? Thank you!