Posted by Jim S on 10/02/07 09:40

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:30:04 +1000, dorayme wrote:

> In article <18ofuikec3igr$.dlg@ID-104726.news.individual.net>,
> Jim S <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:06:44 +1000, dorayme wrote:
>>
>>> In article <t26fb9rfiguy$.dlg@ID-104726.news.individual.net>,
>>> Jim S <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Almost all the many pages on my website look something like this
>>>> http://www.jimscot.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Jims_pictures/Jimspics_14_wave.html
>>>> Is there any advantage to doing away with the 'table' as a placeholder?
>>>> If so, could someone please show me how to do it?
>>>
>
>>> (3) As for your particular page above, it is an example of many,
>>> the changes would be very easy and useful because you might
>>> improve some things while at it - for example, in Safari, the fwd
>>> and back buttons are way down at the bottom of a page. The
>>> caption is way down from the pic. It looks odd on a big screen
>>> and involves greater travel for the mouse. Making a page for
>>> these pics with a caption, and forward and back button would be
>>> very simple, involve less code (less css and less html) than what
>>> you have. I would be happy to give you a demo if you are
>>> interested as I am sure would others.
>>>
>
>> Anyhow, yes I am asking for a demo.
>> I simply have never been able to find a simpler way of presenting the
>> pictures in a way that keeps them within the bounds of an 800x600 layout
>> (and bigger), centralised. The buttons are meant to be in the lowest bottom
>> corners of the screen.
>
> Here is something that might disappoint you if you are adamant
> about vertical centering. I respect you wanting that but think it
> is not something that should overrule the advantages of other
> ways of proceeding, simplicity, easier mouse control over larger
> canvasses, greater flexibility to change the look of the pages
> etc):
>
> I am happy with like this:
>
> http://netweaver.com.au/jim/guestFootJim.html
>
> (I did not remake the arrows, they are from another gallery of
> mine and bigger natively than sized in the html (not best
> practice, just for here and now)... so they may look fuzzier than
> should be in IE)
>
> Closer to what you want follows and demos a simple thing, namely
> that you can use your knowledge about your pics (they are not
> that big, they are highly likely to leave left and right room) to
> put in a little absolute positioning for your buttons (I have
> merely put in text links)
>
> http://netweaver.com.au/jim/guestFootJim2.html

Thanks I'll have a play
--
Jim S
Tyneside UK
www.jimscott.co.uk

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