I haven't uploaded the page - I'll keep looking for my answer -
thanks

Is this another case of moving a horizontal menu from left into the middle? If so, read this thread, starting with the post here:
http://www.coffeecup.com/forums/website … post178592
I hope it becomes a bit clearer.

If your question concerns something else, you'll have to upload the site so that we can take a look. Also, before you upload, give your html file a doctype declaration.

I'm a geologist and I know about as much about coding as your average scientist, enough to be dangerous. My website is about volcanoes and I find myself spending more time on the goddamn code than I do on the rocks. CoffeeCup will do significantly more than than I need for my site but it fails to do at least this one thing.

I would like to center my menu. A lot of people would - five forum pages worth. WHY has no professional programmer from your company, somebody who gets paid for knowing CSS and HTML, provided me and others with a simple checkbox labeled "Center menu horizontally?"

I'm frustrated, clearly, and have better things to do.

Good question! I am sure a lot of people would like that checkbox you're suggesting. In the meantime we have to livew with our workarounds.

Because each page is different.

Why is a man who routinely deals in millions of years worried about wasting maybe a couple of hours trying to get a lousy menu to move from the left side to the center of his web page? Bill R., from the First Baptist Church, can do it (but not tell us how), why can't Danny? Danny has a Ph.D. and presumes to tell us how volcanoes work, why can't he do css like a baptist?

Because it's NOT MY JOB! CoffeeCup took my money for the right to use their HTML editor. They include a menu builder that works OK and centering that menu seems to me to be the kind of thing that a lot of people like me might casually want to do. This is not bouncing from top to bottom or crawling around between the pictures, this is an expectable function of menu building. It should be a built-in function. If I were spending as much time building an HTML editor as I am spending on my volcanoes, I could be called incompetent for failing to do this.

I guess I've already spent more time complaining than I would have looking but this gets to the fundamental issue of usability. I think that menu centering should be part of usability and, apparently, the company does not. That's why I'm pissed off!

I need to spend a couple of hours crawling across a lava flow. It puts things in perspective.

What did the rock say to the geologist? Don’t take me for granite.

There are a lot of people willing to help you center you menu. Just give us the link, or visit this link to get a better picture of how I center a CSS menu. http://helpsite.sirage.com/stream.html? … a-css-menu

And I would suggest you make your suggestion in the HTML Suggestions thread so that the developers will see it.

You can do that here... http://www.coffeecup.com/forums/html-ed … ml-editor/

A geologist in Florida dug 20 ft down and found a bare copper wire and proclaimed that an advanced form of communication must have existed 200 years ago. Not to be out done a geologist in California dug down 30 ft and found a copper wire and proclaimed that an advanced form of communication must have existed 300 years ago. Hearing all the excitement over the discoveries a geologist in Texas dug down 40 ft to find nothing and proclaimed that 400 years ago they must have already gone wireless.

Add this to the top of your menu css style sheet. Adjust the 250px width to your needs.

Setup your menu inside a div like this.

Thank you, Eric, that worked.