Re: Margins and Single Spacing

Brent,

Well, you're on the right track anyway -- just identifying the need to 
improve download time is a biggie -- BTW, http://cast.org/Bobby/ is a good 
tool for estimating download time as well as pointing out accessibility 
issues. I try to make it a habit to check sites there.

>First has to do with my Dysautonomia page (personal journal).  I've used a
>background image that has a graphic down the left-hand side of the page.
>Probably the wrong way to do it but I used indentation to move the graphic
>to the right which appears to move the text to the right and out of the
>graphic (sometimes) but also moves the text away from the left-hand margin
>which I don't really care to do.

You haven't looked at in Netscape yet, I assume? My NN 4.5 is not honoring 
your margin at all.

To move text to the right do one of two things -- put the body text in a 
long right-hand table cell with a transparent gif in the left cell set to a 
width that matches your background. The other thing, which has varying 
levels of support across browsers, is to use style sheets. I would play 
with that by pulling the body background margin from the body tag, setting 
up a style sheet to give the elements a 180 px margin which I'm guessing 
will clear your background image. If  you use style sheets to set the style 
for your paragraphs, bold and italic text, it will also reduce the loading 
time -- not much, but every kilobyte helps :-)

I first started coding by hand, and I'm now phasing out an editor called 
First Page which is becoming quickly outdated, but Dreamweaver should allow 
some sort of Cascading Style Sheet. I did download a trial of DW once -- it 
came with a wonderful tutorial, and you may be able to find some decent 
books, on-line tutorials, etc. too.

Good luck to you!

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