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- Wolfboy
http://www.fig21a.net/homepage/b…
we are doing this bands web site, i am not much of a web deisgner but we are doing it as a favour. this is the navigation page (nothing work on it yet but the screens will be buttons).
Anyway, can anyone tell me why the table has gone all shite and some slices appear to have moved? what have i done?
- JazX0
me like the initial beginning of it
- Wolfboy0
Cheers, they really like the Sandman comics and terry Gillingham. So my ideas are based around the banks of monitors in 12 monkeys and kind of scratchy comic drawings.
But can you shed any light on the way the page hasn't sat right. It is like some of the table has moved. look at the small black gaps and the splits in the drawing.
I don't know what's going on.
- rasko40
for starters you have an ebtire row at the bottom which seems to be redundant.. its a bit of a mess and I cant be arsed to pick through it, I think you just need to make sure that everything adds up and there are no mysterious empty cells or spacer gifs you didn't want... dodgy slicing, did you manually slice in image ready? try it again by drawing guides, making slices from guides and merging what you dont need.. hope that makes sense.
- Wolfboy0
cheers i will give it a go.
- bifter0
looks great - from experience when tables go wonky it is usually quicker to start again than to pick through the html. Sketching the cells on paper can help too that way you have exactly what you need mapped out in front of you.
- sparker0
i know you're not an experienced web designer, but something you might really want to think about it building this by hand using xhtml/css.
it is super slow (even on my t1 at work), and the html that was generated by your editor is awfull.
a lot of the problems could easily be fixed by re-writing the markup in xhtml.
using css to display images and such would help positioning a lot also.
you can still use tables to hold the "buttons" but don't just slice up an image out of photoshop and use it.
first off, one easy solution would be to use one large (optimised/compressed) image for the background...
encase the entire block in a DIV tag and use css to put the background image in the display. then, put a table over the top of the of the background and position your elements in their correct spots.
or, you could even skip the table if you're brace and use exact pixel positioning in css.
the site would work a lot faster, cost you/them less (due to size of files) on bandwidth.