Jeff Reid wrote:

Followed *most* of your suggestions Zoe as closely as I could given the
circumstance of the design.  I think it worked out well (except for making
the font bigger which will break the design as it is).

http://www.olpguitars.com/OLP102005/

But it doesn't have to break the design. You need to reconstruct some things to make that happen. Instead of using one big background image for the container div, slice up that image and layer the pieces on top of each other.

First off, remove the lines dividing your links from the background image. Instead, use borders to create these lines so that as the text is resized and moves, the lines move with it.

Second, remove the gray border of the sidebar from the main background. Slice the top of it together with the OLP logo and stick this first in the sidebar div. Then give the div gray left and right borders that line up with the portion of the borders included in the OLP image. Then slice the rounded bottom of the sidebar and apply this as a background image of the sidebar div. Set it to not repeat and to display at the bottom. It will take some playing, but this is the basic idea to make your design flexible. Now as the text grows in height, the borders will too, and the rounded bottom will get pushed down, keeping the text visually contained instead of overflowing.

Zoe

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Zoe M. Gillenwater
Design Services Manager
UNC Highway Safety Research Center
http://www.hsrc.unc.edu

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