MDJ,
I see that you are using Dreamweaver... it should be pretty easy to get this to work for you. Here's what I did...
First, I made a dummy page that looked how I wanted, to include the left side navigation bar. I made one big table for the whole page and then I put each section in it's own table.
Then I just coppied the HTML from the top (should start with <html> to the last <td> tag before the table that contained my database output and put that in the sub html_page_top section. In the sub html_page_bottom section I coppied everything after the the database output table, which should start with a </td> tag and end with an </html> tag.
The trick is to not think of the page_top and page_bottom as the actual top of the page and the bottom of the page. They are really just "before" the db output and "after" the db output.
Once you get a hold of that idea you can then seperate out the different elements of your page and put them into there own subroutines which will allow you to edit them independantly of each other which makes it easier to make changes later.
Clear as mud?
Hope this helps,
Steve
[This message has been edited by StevePlant (edited October 08, 1999).]
I see that you are using Dreamweaver... it should be pretty easy to get this to work for you. Here's what I did...
First, I made a dummy page that looked how I wanted, to include the left side navigation bar. I made one big table for the whole page and then I put each section in it's own table.
Then I just coppied the HTML from the top (should start with <html> to the last <td> tag before the table that contained my database output and put that in the sub html_page_top section. In the sub html_page_bottom section I coppied everything after the the database output table, which should start with a </td> tag and end with an </html> tag.
The trick is to not think of the page_top and page_bottom as the actual top of the page and the bottom of the page. They are really just "before" the db output and "after" the db output.
Once you get a hold of that idea you can then seperate out the different elements of your page and put them into there own subroutines which will allow you to edit them independantly of each other which makes it easier to make changes later.
Clear as mud?
Hope this helps,
Steve
[This message has been edited by StevePlant (edited October 08, 1999).]
