Spawning windows when clicking on a thumbnail(HTML)

Buzza · 15 Jul 2006 at 18:56

Ive got a very simple new Website(written in Notepad) and i want to spawn a window that fits the image within it, with a minimal border.

Can someone give an idea how to do it?

Ive also got a chunk of my website that refuses to slot in right(take a look its at the top right corner). If anyone can help me fix that too, that would be great

Click on the link in my sig to see my website so far.

Scam · 15 Jul 2006 at 19:51

Have a look here for how to create popup windows with JavaScript.

I'm not sure what you mean about the top right hand corner, looks ok to me :confused:

However i would say that i like the design, but have you checked it fits ok on a monitor running 800x600? It looks awfully big on my screen and i'm running 1280x1024. Might be worth scaling it down a bit?

EDIT: I just looked at your code and cried a little

Not only are you using tables but you have an awful lot of basic errors (missing >'s etc.). Why not download SciTE, a text editor which will help you spot those errors with nice colours for your code.

Buzza · 15 Jul 2006 at 20:09

Yes it is quite large, it was sort of meant to be a good size, but i could try a smaller version at 800x600 instead of 1024x768. I dont know what the most common screen rez used is, you see.

Theres a long horizontal grey strip(3-4 pixels high) at the top right of the folder that shouldnt be there. The piece of graphic thats supposed to fill that space is a few pixels to high.

Buzza · 15 Jul 2006 at 20:13

EDIT: I just looked at your code and cried a little Not only are you using tables but you have an awful lot of basic errors (missing >'s etc.). Why not download SciTE, a text editor which will help you spot those errors with nice colours for your code.

Thanks ill try it. Im self taught and it shows i guess, but it largely works so far at least

EDIT: nice little editor thanks

Trigger · 15 Jul 2006 at 20:34

Whether it works or not, tables are designed to hold tabular data- i.e. data that is supposed to be seen in a table like a survey result for example, not website layouts. Seriously, have a look over on w3schools at XHTML and CSS, it's really easy to pick up and is so much better

Scam · 15 Jul 2006 at 20:36

Its general practice in web design to cater for users at the smallest resolution - this is 800x600 although it is moving towards 1024x768. See this thread for some people's comments. To design for 800x600 i think the max width the design should be is ~750, i generally stick at 725. Augmented says 744px though, so i'd listen to him

It's great that your teaching yourself, however to be blunt (and i know someone else will say it if i dont), you've taught yourself bad practice. Tables should not be used for layouts, your content should be separated using <div>'s and you should style it using CSS. I'm absolutely positive that searching these forums and Google will tell you [a] why you should learn this way and how to go about doing it. It will be worth it in the long run.

Buzza · 15 Jul 2006 at 22:08

I was listening

I would like to learn more and i will look into it, but bare in mind that i barely have time to do the paintings that are featured, let alone learn and write HTML.