Tables Galore

[roxics]

Okay what I'd like to do is stick my VB inside of the center of a 3 column table so that I can have links on the right and left side as well as on the top and bottom. Like this layout:

http://www.roxics.com/vblayout.htm

Thanks

[roxics]

Here is the style I'm working on:

http://ve.roxics.com/board/index.php?s=&styleid=20

I'm not even sure what template(s) I'm supposed to edit.

[Tony G]

Okay well you'll need to edit header. Put all the table tags for the two side bars etc.

After you get that working we'll look to the next step.

[roxics]

See that's where my problem lies. I have edited the header but I can't get it right.

[Tony G]

Whats not working right?

[Breaker]

you could easily make it in a frame

[roxics]

Yeah but making it a frame would look ugly and my members would hate it.

I had tried that a while ago when we were using an ikonboard using an iframe. My members didn't like it.

Tony my problem is I'm not very good with HTML code alone. Especially tables. I build all my tables in Front Page 2000 or Dreamweaver and then just tweak the code. I have no idea how i'm supposed to split up the code for the HTML table I already built and what parts of that code go where in each one of the vb's styles 4 boxes at the top of "modify style".

Everytime I try it myself it messes up the whole board because a tag is in the wrong place or there is a tag missing. Not just that but once you go to a foum itslef the whole thing breaks out of a tables.

It would be simple as pie if all those vb boxes were just one box and I could copy it into dreamweaver and tweak it all there and just copy it back. But it gets confusing when there are two headers and a footer and something else.

What I'm asking for is for someone to break up the code of the tables I built above and show me where it all goes in those 4 boxes. just to give me an idea.

[Tony G]

Hmm if I get time I can code all the HTML for you. These sorts of tables can be tricky. But you can't just use straight HTML in vB. You need to edit a few things, variables etc.

[roxics]

Okay the problem now seems to be that I can't get the forum to remain at the top of the right hand cell.

http://ve.roxics.com/board/index.php?s=&styleid=21

[Tony G]

I only see a left side cell, not right. o_O

[roxics]

As in you don't see the vbulletin on the right at all? Or you don't see the 180pixel wide table on the left?

[Tony G]

I see the table thats supposed to be on the left there. I see the vB, but I don't see the right table your supposed to have.

[roxics]

Oh no I don't have the right table anymore. I found some code someone worked up on Vb.com and used that. But it was only a top, left and center deal. No right table.

But I would love to have a right table.

[Tony G]

Well you can use similar code as the left table but just align it to the right.