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page background problem

Jun 15, 2008 11:51AM PDT

lets see if i can make this remotely make sense. i am not a huge web developer, and do not know most of the lingo involved in page development. i took a high school web design class, and know the ins and outs of Nvu and Microsoft Expression Web. i am having trouble with inline frames. i have one inline frame on my page and have an overall page background picture. in firefox, the inline frame background matches that of the page background picture. in IE, it does not do that. so there is this big white space in the page. i am working on a better design right now. (remember, just a high school class).

i am including a link of the page i am currently working on, it might shed some light on what i am trying to explain. i am in no way trying to bring business to this site.
here is the link: http://www.rentalsofmasoncity.com/rentals-experimental

thanks for any assistance on this.

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It looks fine in IE
Jun 16, 2008 7:48AM PDT
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nope
Jun 16, 2008 8:34AM PDT

that was not the problem. The reason the main page (http://www.rentalsofmasoncity.com) looks the way it does is because i took the page background into mspaint, and moved the colors down so they would match. I am just trying to find a better way to do that, so if i change the header size or something, i do not have to try and match the gradient again.

Thanks for the suggestion. Anything else that would help my situation?

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If you're serious about webdesign....
Jun 16, 2008 8:55PM PDT

.....learn about HTML, proper doctype (HTML not XHTML), external stylesheets, CSS for layout, tables for tabular date only, designing so things look good in all browsers, and NOT putting any 'best viewed' to the bottom.

It looks like you are trying to use i-Frames so you don't have to repeat things on each page - use php includes instead. Much easier and cleaner.