I knew right away what the problem was. I had line height which fixed the cells, but I had one more thing I needed to do - set the height of the rows. And I did. This fixed the problem vertically, but now I was scratching my head about the horizontal. the further west it goes, the more off the abbreviations are. No good! What's going on here?
I played with the code and did experiments on it. This took awhile until I got the idea of putting borders around every cell in the top row to see what was going on. What it revealed was amazing - and it provided more clues...
There it is. I could see that any columns all the way down them empty of any content, were squished together.
This is when I found my math computations for how wide each of these cells' widths was off. However, when I refigured it and added the new data, it only affected the table minimally.
I put a line of characters back into the table on the top row. That set everything the way it was supposed to be. The only two problems now...
- The 2-pixel borders were pushing everything eastward.
- There's also a big problem in the first column - somewhere, causing that cell to be longer than the others.
When I removed the borders, it brought the text westward, but that problem in the first cell or column was still acting up causing everything to be too far east, though it was now much closer than it was to being where things belong. I eventually found that I had html code in the second line of each section that did not need to be there, and when I took them out, I got what you see above.
A GREAT sign here is the fact that there is an even space between each double ## above AND the text on the map is precisely where it belongs East, West, North & South.
I took out the hashes... I STILL have those dratted lines across this map!
How I finally eliminated these. Another day over. I tried every suggestion given to me in the discussions I had gotten. Nothing worked (sorry guys :( )
You have definitely accomplished what you set out with this motivational lesson.
Brilliant job.
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The site that this is on has been sitting and it's a sister site to one that doesn't belong to me. This is a directory site for alternative medicine practitioners and I have no idea yet how to pull this off.
I do have learning materials.
We have maps to show us where something is that we otherwise would not be able to find. When we start out, we must put faith on maps to get us there because we can't see around the first bend nor past the headlights of our automobile.
I agree with you about maps. In a sense, they are something that we all should be using to guide us through the development of our businesses. Helping us keep on track and keeping us on the right road to success.
It starts with an idea. Then it goes to planning out how this idea can be manifested into reality. From here it's setting goals (I didn't do this here and should have.) Finally it's implementing this thing out until it's there. From here on, it's improving what's there already.
I'm grateful you shared this. Obstacles will eventually cross our paths along this IM journey; your story serves as an inspiration (as you meant it) to push ahead and work our way through.
Thank you so much.
In a perfect world where we start out with a good deal of money, we can just assign the idea or task and have it done, but here we are as you said having to wear many hats until we reach a certain knowledge and experience level.
I like having to learn in the rough as you have shown in your tutorial, knowledge seems to stick better in my brain that way.
Thank you for taking the time to share your journey and the lesson that goes along with it, I appreciate you. :)
This thing is primitive, but it does exactly what I need it to do. Today I will build a prototype page that will come off the map when someone clicks on one of the links. This will ensure there are no problems with adding hyperlinks into the table. I don't expect there will be any problems, but not known until it is attempted.
Since Florida is my home state, I will probably do it to that one first off.
