Layout issues!

[raven]

Hello people,

I have started building a test website in order to get used to phpwcms!

I have a question that has now become my problem!

the page is on http://mywcms.no-ip.org/wcmsnew/

my problem is that i want/like the news area to expand downwards when the text in the content area is bigger than the News table. Having the News table fixed really breaks the whole layout.

I could make multiple layouts with different sizes for the News Table in order to accomodate the various sizes of the content table but I believe there is a better solution than this.

(i'm not even sure that this is the right forum to post my question...but any help will be appreciated)

[eccentric.worx]

why not using news- and content-area in one table but different colums?

??

[eccentric.worx]

had a look into your sourcecode. looks very chaotic...
instead of using tables for margins u could use spacer-graphics or even better: css-margins to keep the sourcecode small. for heights u could also use % - even if its not standard-conform. set size of cell 1 to height:1 (the graphic inside will hold the correct size of the cell... the same job as transparent spacer-graphics usually do if you want control cell-sizes in tables...), 2nd cell set height to 100%.
another option: learning css - it´s very handy, because of better layout and handling flexibility...
good luck!

[raven]

thanx for taking a look eccentric.

I made the layout in photoshop and i got the html code with the tables by slicing the image with imageready. I'm not good on HTML, that's why I have the problems with my layout.

If the content part had a fixed length then, the news section would only need a slight adjustment to become equal with the height of the Content Table, and my "creation" would look consistent, but it's not!

thank you for your comments.

(i tried building the whole page with divs but i failed completely!)