Hi Tim and others, Sorry I have not responded sooner, but have been away.
Thanks for the reply and helpful advice. On 07/05/2009, at 10:49 AM, Tim Snadden wrote: >> >> 1. Text content: >> The text drops down below the image on the right instead of being >> parallel to it. I'm sure I've seen something about this problem >> before in one of my books, but I can't find it for the life of me. > > The IE web developer toolbar is pale imitation of firebug but can > be used to find out what is happening in IE. If you look you will > see that the <div class="hp_img"> is taking up with full width. You > could set a width on it, or do away with it altogether and just > position the image. I would absolutely position that image bottom > right so that even if the content grows he still looks right. Thanks for that; that makes sense and works. I've downloaded the IE Web Developer toolbar too; that's great. You're probably right about the absolute positioning. I see it moves when the window is narrowed. I'll give that a go. > >> >> 2. Stripes: >> The gray stripes under the navigation bar at the top and the bottom >> redish band at the bottom drops too low (the bottom one gets tangled >> with the footer text. > > .stripes { > background:transparent url(/images/hor-stripes_bgtop.gif) repeat-x > left bottom; > clear:both; > height:26px; > } This has fixed it. > > You don't need the image inside that div. That's true, if I make the image longer than the widest screen. I'll look at that. I take it that this is better practice? > > Give the footer layout (google hasLayout) and the stripes will > position correctly. One way is using the proprietary 'zoom: 1; ' Hmm. I'll have to do a bit of study here and see how all that works. I've heard about it, but this is the first time I've really had a problem of this sort. Will check it out. Thanks. > > By the way - It would look much nicer to anti-alias the violin on > the left. It looks quite jaggy against the menu bar. You could do > it as an alpha transparent PNG and it would look better to everyone > but IE6 users, and to them it would look no worse than it does > currently. I did use a PNG image at first, but Fireworks gave it a black edge which only emphasised the problem. I've done the same in Photoshop, which doesn't give it the edge, but still gets the halo. I may just start again with the original image and see if I can improve it. Thanks. > > Cheers, Tim Much appreciated, David ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/