Absolutely Stumped!

[bamboo]

This is an appeal to anyone with more knowledge of the vagaries of Actinic than me,which basically means anyone who posts on this forum.
I am running the "infamous" Smart them and have come up against a brick wall when it comes to centering the tables and making them stay where they I want them to.
Html is not my first language and as for CSS!
I have enlisted Firebug & Actinic support and with their help have almost cracked it but not quite.
If one of you extremely generous sorts could have a look and take great delight in pointing out my obvious error I am willing to suffer the public humiliation.
It's bound to be obvious but I honestly cannot see wood for trees!
http://www.exoticandoriental.co.uk/orientalgifts.html (http://www.exoticandoriental.co.uk/acatalog/orientalgifts.html)
As you click on any of the next section links the smart left sidebar gets squashed and clicking on a product link pings it back into shape.
Actinic is a love hate thing for me as it seems to be with most people on here.

[Goz]

It would help if your link worked....:rolleyes:

I think you're missing an acatalog in the middle there...

[peblaco]

Firstly that link gives "Not Found
The requested URL /orientalgifts.html was not found on this server." so I am guessing you meant http://www.exoticandoriental.co.uk/acatalog/orientalgifts.html as Goz says.

Secondly, this is mainly an Internet Explorer issue. Try putting widths on the section images, I believe there are variables for that. Because when Internet Explorer is rendering the page, before it loads all the section images it only gets what it sees as an image with an unknown width and that image is then currently as wide as it's alt tag (text when you mouseover which is the section name).

See this 2925

It's a screengrab of the page before Internet Explorer has finished rendering and I've highlighted the section images before they have loaded. See the widest images are where you've got wider alt tags and shorter images where you've got shorter alt tags. It's your bottom two images with alt="Bamboo & Paper Chinese Parasols" and alt="Chinese Cards & Wrapping Paper" which are wider than the others so before it finishes loading these are what push out the page width. So try adding those image widths and see if that helps.

[peblaco]

Your section image will need to be changed to something like:

<img alt="<actinic:variable name="SectionName" encoding="strip"/>" src="<actinic:variable Name="SectionImageFileName"/>" height="<actinic:variable name="SectionImageHeight" />" width="<actinic:variable name="SectionImageWidth" />" border="0" />

[bamboo]

With grateful thanks to those kind souls, especially Louise, the problem is now solved.
In gratitude I would like to point you fellow entrepreneurs in the direction of this most marvellous piece of free software (they do have paid versions but the free one is excellent) that will reveal to you exactly what your customer like on your homepage and just as important what they don't.
http://www.clicktale.com

It's very, very revealing.

Regards
Derek

[peblaco]

Thanks Derek and for the link, looks interesting will take a look. :)