Posted by Jim S on 02/28/07 00:18

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:05:43 +1100, dorayme wrote:

> In article <1wgp40jnzfbqa$.dlg@ID-104726.news.individual.net>,
> Jim S <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> It's all very well, but I have trawled through several tutorials and with my
>> page layout I cannot for the life of me see how to produce a page like my
>> homepage without using a table or indeed the other pages without frames.
>> --
>> Jim S
>
> As well as various test layouts, perhaps you might look at
>
> <http://tvrs.org.au/gallery/gallery.html>
>
> to see a gallery of pics in a web page setting that is fluid and
> not table based. It can surely be improved upon but it does have
> this basic idea of pics in divs, each floated in a line as are
> words in a piece of text. Instead of words wrapping, it is little
> boxes (divs), inside of which are pictures and a little bit of
> text. That is what the basic idea of floating is about, boxes (be
> they pics or divs or other things of rectangular nature) floating
> to the left or right of other things, these other things can be
> text or further boxy things, their tops approximately aligned,
> when room runs out, they are wrapped.

For me, the difference is that using frames, the "strip" scrolls and the
linked enlarged graphic stays still.
When I originally built the site I had a similar screen full of thumbnails
and getting the enlarged picture was a continuous series of going back and
forward between thumbnails and pictures. I think this is clumsy! I limit my
enlarged picture so that it can be seen in 800 x 600 px without sideways
scrolling, so the whole experience is stable.
The example you have chosen may well adjust to various resolutions, but to
me it is as I said earlier 'clumsy' because of the to-ing and fro-ing going
on. It also works well, as does the Ansel Adams site mentioned elsewhere,
because all the thumbnails are exactly the same size.
Printing IS a problem, but since my index page is not framed then Search
Engines seem to have no trouble.
--
Jim S
Tyneside UK
http://www.jimscott.co.uk

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