Posted by dorayme on 10/03/07 05:16

In article <125nxaix97n8a.dlg@ID-104726.news.individual.net>,
Jim S <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:29:26 +1000, dorayme wrote:
>
> > In article <1h8xnzy3xfsqm$.dlg@ID-104726.news.individual.net>,
> > Jim S <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:30:04 +1000, dorayme wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>
> >> Hi again
> >> It was not t0o difficult to get to this
> >> http://www.jimscot.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Tester.htm
> >>
> >
> > Well done. I trust you find it simpler code.
> >
> >> but I would have my work cut out on pages like these and others
> >>
> >> http://www.jimscot.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Local_History/LH_8_graffiti.html

I would tend to do something like this.

<http://netweaver.com.au/jim/jimsPage.html>

Most of this is straight forward. I am sure it could be improved
upon. If you really want those buttons left and right, at the
base as with the example I made for you at

http://netweaver.com.au/jim/guestFootJim2.html

then just use the same code for the buttons but now allow (an
immediate slight loss in accessibility) about 2em margin left and
right on the wrapper. This should let the absolutely positioned
buttons then be 'sort of' more useful. theoretically if someone
has little height on the browser window.

I have just copy pasted your button code in from your site.

I feel this sort of thing is better across the browsers and
screen sizes than the heavy table layout of yours. Just look at
the difference in the size and complexity of the html/css between
the two.

Yes, I did cheat a little to make it look neater with the pics,
but it would be what I would normally do in an image editor
reasonably quickly to suit the page. You might spot the fiddle...
<g>

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dorayme

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