On 5/17/08, Daniel Botting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have been a subscriber to the css-d list for a long while and always > found it an interesting read. I'm not a web pro, my background for a > while was a tester on a large travel website, so I have a fair-ish idea > of things. > > I'm building a site at the moment as per below url: > > http://beta.bedazzled.name > > It looks fine in FF and Opera, a little broken in Konqueror and > completely broken in IE7. I use Linux and I don't have IE7 at home > (though I am looking at installing ies4linux), but I've had a look at work. > > It should look like the below mockup I built: > > http://beta.bedazzled.name/mockup/mockup.png > > The main background for the body is a tiled 1px image, as are > backgrounds for both nested div's, if there is another way of doing it > to avoid this any suggestions would be appreciated. > Hi Daniel, I would strongly recommend recreating all your bakground images wider than 1px. Tiling tiny images slos some browsers to a crawl, as they have to process each instance of the tiled image. With a vertical gradient in a .png or .gif image you will find that an image 20px or even 100px wide is not signifiantly larger. (If they are jpeg images they shouldn't be!)
-- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/