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Simple white space I can't get off my site NO MATTER WHAT!

by RedShifted
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Its little issues like this that make me want to learn wordpress, then I try to learn wordpress and realize as little as I know about html, I can still get more done in dreamweaver.

But I also wind up having stupid problems aligning things.

In this example, this is a home page I'm trying to doctor up, I have ALWAYS had this stupid white space that REFUSES to go away! I yell at it.. I curse at it, I make fun of its mother - but it still refuses to leave!!

I have gone into the code hundreds of times and at this point I'm really just hopeless. If anyone has any idea whats going on, or thinks they could fix it, I'd be indebted to you for life!

Please HELP - Red

ps. I know the site looks very cheesy and not well done, but I have a much better version I've been wanting to upload for a week now. I just want to get this issue fixed before I do. And if not, I'll probably ditch the whole site and go to wordpress which will be a shame.

Its the space under the 3 images in the middle:
All County Waterproofing | Basement Waterproofing & Mold Remediation Services serving New Jersey
#matter #simple #site #space #white
  • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
    I looked at the page. I'm not sure which white-space you're talking about.

    Help me out and I'll try to help you.

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    • Profile picture of the author Ian Jackson
      Hi Red,

      Please can you be more specific as to which white space you mean? I'm assuming you are using DW from what you say(?)

      Seriously, these days, if you are wanting anything more than a simple squeeze/landing page - learn WordPress!!!

      I was in exactly your position. DWeaver is awesome, but does have some irritating idiosyncrasies, which do not exist in WP. It can take longer to sort them out than to learn WPress.

      If you are using cPanel, WP is a synch anyway.

      If you want a spot of 1-2-1 with this, drop me a PM, but my first advice is going to be... adopt WP instead
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      • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
        As in most present day websites, the appearance of Wordpress sites is structured around its stylesheet (style.css). I would say you probably need to learn CSS more so than just Wordpress programming.

        This link should help you.
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        • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
          II'm'm not sure what elements your images are made up of but certain things have built in space on them sometimes depending on things like "display:block;" or "display:inline;" for instance the "p" tag has built in space undr it , also the "h"tags i.e. h1, h2 etc al have built in space under them and in fact the only thing you can do to stop it is to add a negative margin to the element. You may want to do some investagating into the different elements in that area of your code . Also once you pick up something like that it can stack onto adjacent elements. Sometimes it's easier to just add a negative margin to the element, like "margin-bottom:-50px;".

          Dreamweaver or WP? Personally I hate Dreamweaver, but that's because I have other issue with Dreamweaver, but it is a legitimate question. Sadly many people confuse using WP with being able to build webpages. They are not the same thing. Be that as it may be, WP does offer some distinct advantages mostly the wealth of different plugins that give you things that may far outstrip your coding ability. This does not substitute for the ability to write html / CSS yourself. Which will always be indispensable if you are building webpages. Personally I use Microsoft's Visual Web Developer to build pages for my WP sites After I build a page I then load it into the page/post editor in WP-admin. but the editing software aids tremendously in creating the code , for instance it validates my code on the fly while I'm writing it. Plus i can see my code in a browser before i ever load it up to the server. Granted it doesn't get the formatting that WP will give it but I can at least se roughly how it's looking, behaving.
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