positioning images with css

[giuseppe craparotta]

Hello everybody,
thanx in advance for your help.
Needless 2 say that my question would sound stupid to most of you, but if it
sounded smart I would probably be the one to answer it and not to make it... It
sounds logic, doesn't it?...I apologize for my reflection and I go straight to
the point:

PRESUPPOSAL:
I created a pretty complex web-page design with Photoshop. It's not just about
a logo in the 0% 0% position and some colored bar on the viewport border but a
800X600 image with lots of particulars.
ISSUE:
I'd like 2 put it on the html page with CSS.
QUESTIONS:
a)Shall I put the image as a whole?
b)Or shall I sLice it as I'd do if I wanted to use a table to position it?
If the a) is the correct option, won't the page be to heavy in terms of
kbytes? (As far as I know a sliced image is overally lighter than an entire one)
If the b) is the correct option, how can I position more than one picture with
css in a html document? (I studied css from a short Molly Holzshlag's book and
she only explains how to position 1 single image)
c)Is it ok to use CSS image-positioning to such an extreme extent? Should I
prefer table-positioning considering my 800X600px goal? I mean, is there any
technical problem I ignore? Is it a inapropriate use of CSS?

Thank you so very much and enjoy the week!
bye,
Giuseppe, Rome

[giuseppe craparotta]

Hello everybody,
thanx in advance for your help.
Needless 2 say that my question would sound stupid to most of you, but if it
sounded smart I would probably be the one to answer it and not to make it... It
sounds logic, doesn't it?...I apologize for my reflection and I go straight to
the point:

PRESUPPOSAL:
I created a pretty complex web-page design with Photoshop. It's not just about
a logo in the 0% 0% position and some colored bar on the viewport border but a
800X600 image with lots of particulars.
ISSUE:
I'd like 2 put it on the html page with CSS.
QUESTIONS:
a)Shall I put the image as a whole?
b)Or shall I sLice it as I'd do if I wanted to use a table to position it?
If the a) is the correct option, won't the page be to heavy in terms of
kbytes? (As far as I know a sliced image is overally lighter than an entire one)
If the b) is the correct option, how can I position more than one picture with
css in a html document? (I studied css from a short Molly Holzshlag's book and
she only explains how to position 1 single image)
c)Is it ok to use CSS image-positioning to such an extreme extent? Should I
prefer table-positioning considering my 800X600px goal? I mean, is there any
technical problem I ignore? Is it a inapropriate use of CSS?

Thank you so very much and enjoy the week!
bye,
Giuseppe, Rome

[Murray *ACE*]

Let's start by seeing your page, please.

> I created a pretty complex web-page design with Photoshop. It's not just
> about
> a logo in the 0% 0% position and some colored bar on the viewport border
> but a
> 800X600 image with lots of particulars.

I'm already worried. This sounds massively heavy....

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"giuseppe craparotta" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hello everybody,
> thanx in advance for your help.
> Needless 2 say that my question would sound stupid to most of you, but if
> it
> sounded smart I would probably be the one to answer it and not to make
> it... It
> sounds logic, doesn't it?...I apologize for my reflection and I go
> straight to
> the point:
>
> PRESUPPOSAL:
> I created a pretty complex web-page design with Photoshop. It's not just
> about
> a logo in the 0% 0% position and some colored bar on the viewport border
> but a
> 800X600 image with lots of particulars.
> ISSUE:
> I'd like 2 put it on the html page with CSS.
> QUESTIONS:
> a)Shall I put the image as a whole?
> b)Or shall I sLice it as I'd do if I wanted to use a table to position it?
> If the a) is the correct option, won't the page be to heavy in terms of
> kbytes? (As far as I know a sliced image is overally lighter than an
> entire one)
> If the b) is the correct option, how can I position more than one picture
> with
> css in a html document? (I studied css from a short Molly Holzshlag's book
> and
> she only explains how to position 1 single image)
> c)Is it ok to use CSS image-positioning to such an extreme extent? Should
> I
> prefer table-positioning considering my 800X600px goal? I mean, is there
> any
> technical problem I ignore? Is it a inapropriate use of CSS?
>
> Thank you so very much and enjoy the week!
> bye,
> Giuseppe, Rome
>

[giuseppe craparotta]

I sent my web page as attachment to [email]forums@HAHAgreat-web-sights.com[/email] but there's a routing server failure. Any suggestion on how to make you have my page?
Thanks!
Giuseppe

[Murray *ACE*]

Upload it and post a link to it, please. I prefer not to receive pages by
email.

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"giuseppe craparotta" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I sent my web page as attachment to [email]forums@HAHAgreat-web-sights.com[/email] but
>there's a routing server failure. Any suggestion on how to make you have my
>page?
> Thanks!
> Giuseppe

[giuseppe craparotta]

The thing is that my page is not on a server yet... :-(

[Murray *ACE*]

Nobody can help you without seeing your page.

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"giuseppe craparotta" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> The thing is that my page is not on a server yet... :-(

[mlapointe]

What you probably need is a combination of both tables and CSS. Before you
slice-and-dice, look at your Photoshop layout as the three-dimensional object
that it is and think about the parts that you can logically put together in
divs and control with CSS, and which large images you need to slice up. For
complex layouts, I actually sketch out several scenarios with pencil and paper.

Here's an example of a gloriously complicated layout: [url]www.loopedlogic.com[/url]
It's still not perfect (there's a small positioning glitch in Firefox I've yet
to iron out), but it works. The only table is the sliced-up large image of the
cabinet; everything else is CSS.

Table vs. CSS? If you've got a complicated layout, CSS is about fifty times
harder to set up and get right, but once you've got it working, it's
rock-solid, downloads much faster, and you can change it without it falling
apart.