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Need some help with my web pages...I'm redoing my site again and am having trouble getting my images to line up the way I want them to. I know it has something to do with tables, which I have no expertise with. Can someone help me with codeing one page so I can copy it and edit to work for several? Right now I have all my thumbnails lined up verticly and I hate it. Thanks! Adrienne
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I use tables on all my pages to place text and images right where I want them. You can visit my site, right-click on the page and select "View Source" to see how the tables are constructed. Look for the TABLE tag in the HTML.
Go to the following link. It's a page on my site that's brand spankin new and I think you'll like it. =) http://www.stickerpimp.com/tribals
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Actually you can remove the "size" tag altogether which will make web browsers use the actual dimensions of the images. FrontPage puts the image size in there, but if I were writing the page by hand like I used to when I had time, I wouldnt put the size in there.
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Mike I do it all from scratch, not that it's the best or fastest way, just the way I learned it. Thanks for the tip on leaving the size tag out, that right there will save me a lot of trouble! And I'll go check out that sight too Coop, looks like what I've been looking for. A
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Leave the size tags in ... if you can. Yes the browser will size the cells to the images ... but not untill they load ... which is what causes that kinda "bounce" on the page. like when someone posts a pic on the board ... you'll be reading then all of a sudden the words are in a different place
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The best tool I found for making thumbnails is appropriately called ThumbsPlus. It's available as a free trial download from www.cerious.com
The other way I have placed text and images effortlessly on my pages is by using the Layers feature. In software like Dreamweaver, for example, all you do is create a new "layer" any place you want a new image or group of text or whatever. I recently redid some of my inkjet refill pages using layers instead of tables and it worked out pretty good.
I find layers to be more click and drag friendly (and accomplished more visually) than frames or tables which seem to be more finicky about what goes in them and where things can appear within them.
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Thanks for all this wonderful advice!! Jan is mt web page remodeling time so I will be putting all this to the test! Now....how to get Dreamweaver......... A
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In re: lining up images: tables are a good way to go, or you can align them within the body of your text by adding hspace/vspace/align arguments to your image tages.
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