On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:17:56AM -0800, T. Joseph CARTER wrote: > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:17:56 -0800 > From: "T. Joseph CARTER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] google hosted email service > > 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..
yeah, its not that gui of an interface.... you can change font sizes, which is what you would want it to do when you stretch... you can also center on column too. I ofcourse am talking about the online webdesign tools here... also... are you attempting to have sex with my website? or are you bathing in it? Jamie > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
