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Margaret Bowler wrote:
> If you go to www.digitalreign.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi using mozilla you will
> notice that between the left area and the middle content area there is a
> thin black line
>
> this is cause (i think) by have a transparent background - ie the dots if
> you look at in internet explorer, over another background
>
> if anyone knows of a solution please help!
>
>

Your webpage was designed at the time where NS 4 was used by a lot of
people. I'm convinced this page design was never updated.

That page has 43 tables, - forty three! - nested tables, an incredible
amount of tables! I had to resort to a special user stylesheet to see
the outlines.

As it is, your page is unmanageable, impossible to upgrade without
spending a lot of time figuring where starts this table/tr/td and where
this other table/tr/td ends. <center>, <font> is also very frequently
encountered: these are outdated elements, deprecated and not
recommendable for hundreds of reasons I won't explicit here.

Even the scripts are illogical. The function openticker(shref) is
certainly not best as written.

What you need here is first a new page design. If a 3 column design is
what you want/need, then go for it with CSS design, not table design.

Everywhere in your page code where you see for instance
align=center (50 times)
then you could replace this by 2 lines at most in a style sheet.
width=100% for table and tds is repeated 97 times while tables with the
attribute width=100% will try to render a 100px wide table, not a 100%
(of its immediate parent) width: that's just 1 example of what
validation does: it avoids mistakes. In any case, you don't need a
single table (well, maybe 1) for your page.

With a modern design, CSS coding and using valid markup, your page size
could be easily reduce to 50% of what it is, download time could be
improve by 33% or so (specially if you use .png images), your page could
be parsed and rendered faster on 95% of all browsers in use out there
and your page would be a lot easier to maintain, update, upgrade.

I think for now you should forget the idea of trying to validate that
page of yours and instead look for an entirely new design based on valid
markup code, tableless design and CSS design.

Look Ma, No Tables:
http://glish.com/css/

CSS Tableless Web Sites:
http://www.meryl.net/css/

Open source Web design:
http://www.oswd.org/

Tables or CSS? Choosing a layout; CSS layout
http://www.saila.com/

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