For what I was doing there [ http://www.mediation.co.uk/dev_snb/index1.html ] - the advantage of layers is the fact that you get absolute positioning. You're specifying where those images/text on the layers are going to wind up - when they will appear/disappear, and knowing that's where it's going to be when they're viewed at the other end... Seven layers at the moment - so plenty of examples of what the HTML looks like! Plus I know that this particular client's going to be doing a 'Can you just...?' on that front page several times over, & layers are easier to shift about than having to redo a large image in Photoshop. Oh, and it's not as costly on filesize as Flash... [With another hat on,I run the research side here, so sometimes spend a lot of my time looking for 'skip intro' button on other people's sites]
The alternative for me would be doing the page as a large image in Photoshop, sorting the layers out within that program, slicing it up in Image Ready which is linked to Photoshop... which gives you an end result of a lot of images as blocks which the program assembles based on tables ...which are a pig to modify. But that aside I love Photoshop...6 years down the line from first buying it would still cheerfully spend hours relaxing with it on graphics just for fun... a fact which means everyone in not only my own but our partner companies exploit when they want a presentation image put together at short notice. I did our company site's What's New page [ http://www.mediation.co.uk/Projects.html ] with Golive ages ago - that application gave you the impression of absolute flexibility, but in fact the way it operates using tables, it's a total pain, and so the page bugs me every time I update it - This is a page that's crying out for absolute positioning rather than tables.... so **when** I get a free weekend with nothing that's fee-paying to do, no content to write, no research & no module deadline on by part-time MSc looming, I'm going to re-do it in layers... Yeah, that was my New Year resolution last year too - ye olde cobbler's Children syndrome... I learnt HTML in '94 while back at university by taking apart other people's pages - & tho I'd not be without an authoring program now for speed, getting 'under the hood' is still the best way to sort out the problems. Go for it, Sherry! Franni >If I have asked this question before, please forgive me. My memory's been >acting up lately. > >The question: what is the advantage of designing in layers? Does this only >work with CSS? > >Really dumb question: this *does* come out as HTML, right? (Well, it kind of >has to, Sherry...) > >I'm having a really hard time wrapping my mind around the notion of what >layers would look like in HTML. I *could* just go look (would need a URL from >someone) but fear a fainting spell at the sight of what's under the hood. > >Sherry > >Jan Major wrote: > >> Franni, >> Don't know if this is a problem, but looking at your code, >> I notice that your javascript functions are typed twice on >> that page, might be causing some kind of problem. >> > > >____ ï The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM ï ____ >To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: > http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub > >________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ > >You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% >-- >This email was forwarded via the University of Cambridge alumni email system >Visit http://cantab.net/ to update your forwarding details ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
