On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:56:43PM -0800, LinuxRocks! wrote:
> http://rocksolidnetworks.googlepages.com/
Joseph compatibility note, "Home of things and Stuff(tm)" does not fit in
the blue area at the top and therefore gets really hard to read. Suggest
modifying the graphic container so that it also holds text and can stretch
vertically..
People keep swearing you can do that kind of thing with CSS, but I have
yet to see it work. I'd use a table with no margins or borders (ie,
oldskool Adobe ImageReady 6 or Dreamweaver or something image slicing).
Something like this:
__________________
|------------------|
|__________________|
The top cell is the one that should stretch here, and you should be able
to make it do that with CSS easily enough. It should work without CSS
even, but web browsers all suck. Making the bottom one stretch would be
trivial, but your page calls for the top, given your current graphic.
The textual elements would simply span both rows, and is actually the
whole point of using a table. HTML mandates that if text doesn't fit in a
table, the table gets bigger to accomodate. CSS mandates that if a text
area is too small, text spills out making the page hard to read.
Obviously the CSS way makes SO much more sense and anyone still using
tables is evil and noncompliant. Which is why the W3C can do something
unnatural for all I care, until they get a clue.
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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