Help with Layers

Hi,
I need some help with Layers? Here is a link to a simple page
layout with 1 blue table, and 1 small green box. Both have a
capital "I" on the left. The table was aligned to "center" in DW.
http://sfrcreations.com/tbe.html
When I built this page at home, on my tiny 12" monitor, the
letters lined up over each other. When I look at it on larger
monitors, they no longer line up. I did have a suspicion that this
would happen due to my lack of knowledge of layers. So, my question
is. How does one, with a centered table, get a layer to always
appear where the designer wants it to no matter what the browser
size is. For instance if you move the browser to different sizes,
the blue box follows, but the layer stays where it is?
Are the menus on this forum site and the Adobe site in
general done by using layers? I ask, because if so, this site is
centered, and the layers seem to adjust to any browser size.
By the way, I am using Dreamweaver 8.
Thanks for any help!

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"Nadia : **AdobeCommunityExpert**"
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> Took the words right out of my mouth - thanks Murray ;-)
>
> Nadia
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>> The wrapper div is relatively positioned and auto
centering with a fixed
>> width. This has two consequences. Being auto
centering is obvious. The
>> relative positioning is not.
>>
>> When an element is relatively positioned, it takes
its position from its
>> location in the flow of the code. Since the wrapper
is the first thing
>> on the page (wrapping everything else) its position
will be at the top of
>> the page (unless you would apply top page margins,
or top margins on the
>> wrapper), and centered (since relatively positioned
elements *can* move,
>> unlike absolutely positioned elements). Now - since
it is relatively
>> positioned *IT* will serve as the point of reference
for all internal
>> absolutely positioned elements. That's because the
definition of
>> absolute positioning is that its position is
calculated from the location
>> of its closest positioned ancestore.
>>
>> Thus, as the relatively positioned wrapper 'floats'
to the center of each
>> different browser viewport, all internal absolutely
positioned elements
>> are forced to 'float' along with it (I use 'float'
in quotes to indicate
>> that I am NOT talking about CSS floats, which are
very different
>> creatures than what I am describing).
>>
>> That's why it works.
>>
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>> "engmix" <[email protected]> wrote
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>>> Hi Nadia,
>>> Could you please explain how you designed this
layout with some degree
>>> of
>>> detail. I could easily cut and paste your
layout, but I really want to
>>> understand how you went about it. What did you
start with and so on.
>>> Hope this
>>> isn't to much to ask?
>>>
>>> Thanks again!
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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> I'm more of a designer, so I don't know code or CSS well
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> an
> online portfolio for a class and need help with layers
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> place in
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> use
> the show/hide function for thumbnails of work. Are
layers the only way you
> can
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> can I
> make it so when you mouse over a thumbnail, the larger
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