layers

[Andy 23]

What is a Layer and how do you use them and what for?

[Paul L UK]

Andy

Take a look at <http://www.arraich.com/elements/pse_wwhy1.htm>

Paul

[Pete D]

Andy,

Look also right in PSE program at "Help" and "Photoshop Elements
Tutorials"...choose using layers.

Use and understand layers and the rest will be easy:)

Pete

[Beth Haney]

See my post with your name! :)

[Barbara Brundage]

Yes, Andy, listen to Pete. Really, try the "harnessing the power of layers" tutorial and just do EXACTLY what it tells you to do, and you will start to understand layers much better than if everyone on this forum talked to you about them all day long. Give it a try, and you'll soon see.

[TboXx]

I have a page with one layer of main text. Is thier a way i can make that
text autosize for the browser and resolution of the viewer of the page?,
Mike

[viscomm54]

Hello all,

I am trying to incorporate a bit of dynamic linking into an already existing
site.
The site is [url]www.sparkgraphic.com[/url] and for reference sake, as you click from
"home" to "about us" or any of the major headings, the information displayed
is all on layers using the "set text of layer" command.
My goal is this: I want to create a menu so that the user can rollover a main
link
like "About us" and the sub menu will appear and when they select "history"
for instance
it will link them to the "About Us" page and display the corresponding layer
for the
description about history.

Is this possible? Any help would be sooo appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Michelle

[Murray *TMM*]

I don't really understand your question, but I don't like your
implementation.

Why are you using the set text of layer thing at all? Each menu option
links to a separate page - why not just write the proper info in those pages
instead of using the SetText?

In addition, you have at least one code error -

&amp;nbspSpark ---> &amp;nbsp;Spark
----------------------------------------------^^^

Also, Netscape4x will not place scrollbars in layers, so your page's content
would be completely blown in that browser.

Finally one of my pet peeves is a page like yours. Lots of unused space,
with tiny little scrolly areas, none of which print properly. And with
reversed text - it's very hard to read.

Personally, I'd rethink this whole approach - and I'd use my screen's
available space more efficiently to give the visitor a more pleasant
experience.

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"viscomm54" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to incorporate a bit of dynamic linking into an already

existing

> site.
> The site is [url]www.sparkgraphic.com[/url] and for reference sake, as you click

from

> "home" to "about us" or any of the major headings, the information

displayed

> is all on layers using the "set text of layer" command.
> My goal is this: I want to create a menu so that the user can rollover a

main

> link
> like "About us" and the sub menu will appear and when they select

"history"

> for instance
> it will link them to the "About Us" page and display the corresponding

layer

> for the
> description about history.
>
> Is this possible? Any help would be sooo appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Michelle
>

[uncle_dan]

Hey,

I'm going to have to side with Murray on this one.

I tried making a site like the one you are describing. After hours of fiddly
little bits of code the website worked but loading times were slowed and the
printing was pathetic.

I would simply use a Template and get the links to open new pages each time,
much faster and easier - trust me!

As for your sub menu...this could be achieved using the Set Text of Layer
behaviour. Put all of your links in one layer and then simply say OnMouseOver
=> Set Text of Layer to the code required for the new sub menu. Make it so
that only one sub menu is open at a time.

Hope this helps,

Danny

[jimmy_milk]

I have a page with a flash file on it. The problem I have is I would like a jpg image underneath it, but I know you can't just drag it over. How can you?

Thanks for your time

Jimmy

[Murray *TMM*]

When you say "underneath it" do you mean below it in content, e.g.,

FLASH FILE
JPG IMAGE

or do you mean one on top of the other?

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"jimmy_milk" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I have a page with a flash file on it. The problem I have is I would like a
>jpg image underneath it, but I know you can't just drag it over. How can
>you?
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Jimmy

[jimmy_milk]

I would like it so the flash image is on top :)

[Murray *TMM*]

I'm just curious - why? The JPG image will never display in that case.

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"jimmy_milk" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I would like it so the flash image is on top :)

[jimmy_milk]

oooh sorry, the jpg is larger so, it will be showing a picture of a frame underneth the flash

[Murray *TMM*]

Use the jpg image as a background image in a table cell. Insert the Flash
into that table cell.

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"jimmy_milk" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> oooh sorry, the jpg is larger so, it will be showing a picture of a frame
> underneth the flash

[jsmanning11]

Hi there. I am new to this forum so any help would be greatly appreciated. I
have some layers in my top frame -http://www.theanswernet.com - I can hide the
layers on the home page where there are no frames no problem there. Once you
go the inside pages - I have the menu in layers at the top. They hide
perfectly within the frame. What I am trying to do is to get them to
disappear, for example, when someone mouses over an image in another frame -
[url]http://www.theanswernet.com/f_contact.html[/url] - say the "contact us" image. I did
the hide layer but it just doesn't take. Any ideas?
Thanks.

[laksinu]

I feel you are only giving onmouseover (); for single image, please give onmouserover as show layer and onmmouseout as hide layer that should solve your problem.

[jsmanning]

Thank you for the suggestion. I tried that and it does make the layer
disappear. Unfortunately, though, it does not keep the layer long enough to
see it or click on anything. Do you have any other suggestions?

[flatlander]

I need to place a layer of 100% width and 75pixel height so that is permanently
at the bottom of the screen no matter what screen resolution visitors are
using.

Before I was using a table of 100% height but with the new layout this is not
possble and it needs to be separate layer at this position.

[Murray *TMM*]

> no matter what screen resolution visitors are

> using.

Screen resolution has nothing to do with this problem. The important
variable is browser viewport height. I can have a huge screen, and if my
browser viewport is only 800px tall, then you would have to place the layer
to accommodate that 800px height. Perhaps this gives you a glimpse of why
you cannot do this with simple HTML/CSS other than by using frames.

The problem is that the content of the page may not be as tall as the
viewport. Making a page element move outside the bottom of the content is
not possible.

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"flatlander" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I need to place a layer of 100% width and 75pixel height so that is
>permanently
> at the bottom of the screen >
> Before I was using a table of 100% height but with the new layout this is
> not
> possble and it needs to be separate layer at this position.
>