[UPHPU] Tables and Image-slicing

[Benjamin Schmuhl]

Yeah, this sounds like the best approach, although it won't print well
(unless they have background printing turned on), I could use a stylesheet
hack to have it print something better for print anyway...

Thanks for the feedback!

-----Original Message-----
From: Mac Newbold [mailto:mac at macnewbold.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 3:32 PM
To: Benjamin Schmuhl
Cc: 'UPHPU.org'
Subject: Re: [UPHPU] Tables and Image-slicing

Today at 2:58pm, Benjamin Schmuhl said:

> Wow this list has like doubled its posts this year in the past couple of
> days!  So while everyone is active, I have another question!  I am using
> image-slicing to make some fun navigation buttons work
(http://www.shoff.org
> <http://www.shoff.org/> ).  I wanted to be able to have onMouseOver image
> changes, and I wanted to avoid image maps because I think that they look
> clunky.  On the home page you will see what it looks like without the
button
> images, but imagine them showing up just under the curve, and along the
> curve.  I had to do some pretty fancy slicing (thanks ImageReady!) to get
it
> to where it is, but I am not happy with it, as you may notice if you are
not
> using IE.
>
> So, the question is, how do you pull off something like this without
> image-slicing?

All I can get is the login.php page which has no navigation buttons, 
though I can see a bit of slicing at the bottom of the Shoff Family 
medallion at the top.

Is there a way to get to a page that includes the buttons of which you 
speak? If you wanted to post the html+css somewhere where it won't 
actually reveal any undesired information, that would work too.

Without having seen it, the best I could do would be to guess that putting 
the image you're slicing up into the background and putting your buttons 
on top of it, perhaps with some relative or absolute positioning or 
something. They may need to be alpha-channeled PNGs in order to look 
pretty, which would mean using one of the many pngfix hacks for MSIE to 
not be so retarded.

Thanks,
Mac

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