That makes sense. I'm going to give it a whirl and see what I can mock up for him. Thanks again!
On 3/14/06, Tom Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Morphis > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 3:27 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] ideas for this site > > Of the body or a container div?.. and have a div with padding to set it > in the middle? > > > On 3/14/06, Tom Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Background Image... > > > > > > Try putting the background image on a container div. The image would > dictate the dimensions of that div. Use what ever method you are > comfortable with to position the content within that div. You are > confining yourself to that page size (width and height) however, unless > you decide on a background color that will show should someone want to > or need to scale their text size. Scaling text (up) would most likely > push out your containing div (one with image bg) at least in one > direction, so the question would be what to do in that case. (i.e. the > bg color mentioned before). > > You could also have a huge image that was "cropped" by the container > div, and as the user scaled their text (up) more of the huge image would > show. The down-side to this is that it would be... well... a huge image. > > HTH > > ---- > Tom Livingston > Senior Multimedia Artist > Media Logic > www.mlinc.com > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
