need to move away from absoloute layers

for let - looking for advise - maybe contract job

[iggy99]

hello everybody --

i have a menu here

[66.84.71.35...]

that has been done with layers and absolute x and y positioning - i need a "relatave" menu that will be in a table "centered" in page -

if i use layers, of course, depending on screen size, res etc - layers are not displayed in ideal locations --

i would be glad to pay a reasonable fee to hire a pro to do this for me -

i would also be willing to learn how to do this for my self - if guided in the right direction...

many thanks - iggy

[PatomaS]

Hello

Well i'm a JavaScript lover, but i really think that this king of menus could be more efficient with CSS, you can check an example in this page

www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html

Hope it helps

[iggy99]

i have looked at this sort of thing - but to the best of my findings this also relys on absolote x and y positioning -

remember my goal is to use this menu in a centered page -

am i missing something here?

can this type of thing actually be done with css - so the menu displays correctly - regardelss of screen size - res etc...?

[jetboy_70]

Absolutely positioned elements are positioned in relation to their containing element. If you wrapped all this code in a relatively positioned centred <div> (centre using margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;) then it would centre.

Can't help but comment that 40K+ for an unpopulated menu is a hell of a lot of code though.

[iggy99]

yes i agree -- alot of this is Size of all images 34773 (bytes)

this is beta - and has a way to go before i get this on a published web page...

do you have any sugge4stions on how i could streamline this?

[defanjos]

iggy99,

You might want to try www.projectseven.com, they have some Dreamweaver extensions that do what you want.

[iggy99]

many thanks to everybody.. getting this to work - but is is a menu with way too much code for what it does -- how can i trim it down?

[iggy99]

i really need help stream-lining this now "php Includeed" menue --

stickymail me for actual URL -

this "menue" is huge 50000 HTML and adds alot of weight to my otherwise fast loading page....
please help me!

many thanks

iggy

PS - does anybody know of a way, in php, i can check speed of connection, and load a "diferent" included "simple menu"