asp.net web form layout design considerations help

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Hi All,

I'm a newbie at web design, and would like to know how to best design a
layout.

Right now Im using VS 2003, framework 1.1.

I have designed page layouts as follows:

1 .A Table structure with a HEADER, LEFT MENU, CONTENT and FOOTER section as
table cells and rows, each containing a user control which will obviously
then look similar on each page.

2. The table cell to the right of LEFT MENU contains all content, grids, xml
results etc.

My questions:

1. I am designing for 1024x768. Is that a good base resolution to aim for in
web apps?

2. When resizing the page, or viewing it in 1680xXXX, ie a larger resolution,
the LEFT MENU expands and the whole page looks messy. I've tried to fix the
width of that table cell using "width="xxpx" and STYLE (I know i should use
CSS and am using it on fonts and links etc) but how can I stop that left
table cell from moving so that the content is always gonna be positioned at
the same place no matter what the resolution?

I tried to place the relevant user controls on the web form at desgn time,
but the flow is all messed up at run time.

I fear I'd rather ask, its better to learn than to go on blindly.

If there is a better way of designing pages, please give me your opinions on
it.

Thank in advance

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I've sorted it.. Thread may be closed.

A mixture of DIV and Width Styles sorted this nicely for me. Im sure I can do
it through CSS but I'll tackle that later.

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