The Webmistress — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 08:26:25 +0000

Welcome to TWF,

Remember this - in DW if it is blank it means it will do whatever is default not that it means 0

jag5311 — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 03:40:08 +0000

Thanks, that margin thing really helped. I guess the 3 pixels is standard for Dreamweaver, because the boxes were empty, but i still typed in 0 for each one. And it moved my logo and text up a little. I even tried it with that logo of scorpio, and it worked. thanks

Luckily i am taking a computer graphics course this semester at my university, so i will be able to do something hopefully with that

thanks

bryan

Megan — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 03:15:18 +0000

Your problem might be that the browser sets a default margin of 3 pixels around the page. GO into your page properties in Dreamweaver and set the margins there to 0. Also make sure that if you're using a table that you set the cellpadding and cellspacing to 0.

When you create graphics for your site you'll probably want to "slice them up" and put them into a table. The easiest way to do this is to go into Image Ready (and if you have Photoshop you should have this too) and use their slicing tools. If you don't have IR there are stand-alone programs that can do this.

You can also just set guides in photoshop to represent your table borders and then cut out the individual parts into separate graphics. Then go into Dreamweaver and piece together a table. It's often hard, though, to get the table right, which is why it's sometimes easier to get a program to do it for you.

When you're doing your slicing remember that your graphics are going to have to go into a grid on the HTML page (in a table), so try to keep the limitations of HTML in mind when you're setting up your slices. You wouldn't want to use your graphic as a background because then you wouldn't be able to add any interaction to it (links, mouseovers etc.)

Welcome to TWF by the way!