Frameageddon

[Smelch]

I've just started building the site for my comic, but I'm had trouble with the Advertisement. It seemed to want to appear right above the comic image, screwing up the alignment of everything else on the page. I now fixed that, and the site fits together in IE and Opera, but has alignment issues in Firefox. Is there a simple error, or am I just being retarded?

Site: http://voidrunners.comicgenesis.com

And while I'm at it, any critique on making the site less crap?

Thanks.

[Dr Neo Lao]

The ***advertisement*** tag must be "above the fold" - that means that it must appear above the comic on your page (it must also be at the top on all your pages, including pages without comics). (Note that if you put the ***advertisement*** elsewhere, the server will add it in for you - so you might end up with two ads on your page)

The easiest way to do this is to simply put the ***advertisement*** directly below the < body > tag (outside the table you are using). If you don't like the look of that, you can integrate it into your design - just leave a 468 x 60 pixel gap for where the Ad will show up. There are a couple of comics that do this, though I can't think of any off the top of my head.

As for tips - for your non-index pages you'll want to use '/images/home.gif' instead of 'images/home.gif' for your onload stuff. Actually, it's probably a good idea to do that for all your pages so that your readers' browsers find the images in the right place.

Most of your layout is fine - but you'll probably find it easier to use div's instead of a table for the nav menu - the way the alignment is set up will take a fair amount of effort to get it to look good in all browsers (in FF I'm seeing a lot of gaps).

[Smelch]

Yeah, I managed to fix it, I assume that sticking it right at the top of the page still counts as having it above the fold.

I've only had basic lessons in Dreamweaver, so I really am going out of my depth with this site and trying to figure it out as i go along, which is why it's frames at the moment. I've literally just got my head around doing the complex frames for this, and I will be looking into Divs as soon as I got time and stuff is working.

I probably will alter the site design a little to incorporate the ad.

Thanks for the help.

[Dr Neo Lao]

My advice is to stick to a basic layout first while you are working on your comic. Odds are that you will want to change it in a few months anyway, so spending more effort on the wall isn't really worth the effort when your readers come to see the canvas. So long as it works, your site design will be mainly ignored by most visitors.