Simple nav buttons not displaying correctly

Question

When I add content to the page that expands the table, the
nav buttons on the left "spread out". This isn't happening in
Safari. Any help would be much appreciated. Here is the page I'm
working on:
http://www.csayersdesign.com/achieveIT/pages/company.htm

Answer 1

Curtis Sayers wrote:
> When I add content to the page that expands the table,
the nav buttons on the
> left "spread out". This isn't happening in Safari. Any
help would be much
> appreciated. Here is the page I'm working on:
>
http://www.csayersdesign.com/achieveIT/pages/company.htm
>
>
Problem is you're doing what a lot of beginners do, trying to
create a
page by using one single table and splitting the cells into
numerous
cells......that aint going to work as you have found out.
It doesn't help either that you are allowing Fireworks to
generate this
code. When you do that it normally produces fragile code that
the
browser tries its best to interpret and a lot of times fails
The design you're trying to produce is a fairly basic 2
column table
which you should ideally set up directly in Dreamweaver.
A sticking plaster option would be to remove all the elements
in your
navigation side bar and merge that column back into one
single cell. You
can do that by click-dragging in Dreamweaver then in the
properties
inspector where it says 'cell' in the bottom left corner
click the white
square icon which will merge all the cells into one.
The downside to this is that it may upset the fragile code
created by
Fireworks and throw your page into even more turmoil.
If it does work you then need to insert another table (a
nested table)
into the cell which you merged back into one. Then put your
navigation
buttons into it.
Tables that are independent of one another cannot interact
and so you
create a more stable environment for your design.