Total web design noob needs help....

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Right i am totally new to webdesign so please be patient with me lol. I am just about to start making my first page in Dreamweaver. Having read through Dreamweaver for Dummies i've decided that using Layers will be the best option for what i am going to try (could probably do it with tables also, but i understand that layers are the way to go now) but i have hit a problem right at the start. For my design the main 'active' part of the page will be a vertical 'tablet' kind of shape around 750 pixels wide (to accomodate for the 800x600 users out there) and i want it to always be centered in the screen even when users resize their browsers. When i was messing around with tables i found the option to do this pretty quickly, but i just cannot seem to find any equivalent setting for layers.

As i understand it layers can have an 'absolute' location or a location relative to another layer, but really the best way for my design to work would be for the first layer (ie: the page header image) to be always centered and all the other layers to be placed relative to it.

Is there some kind of setting i am missing that will enable me to do this, or is it just not possible?

Thanks for any help!
 
Don't get bogged down trying to compare current methods of structuring a website compared to how tables do. Tables were never designed to structure a website.

Head over to W3Schools and have a read up on what each element is, what it does, and how it can be styled with CSS.
 
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