brady.k — Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:36:38 +0000

wow...not bad for a personal/family site!

i havent looked at your source code...but create a main table, for the whole page, and then your other tables inside it...close the table...add the bottom content...example:

<TABLE WIDTH="100%>  <!-- I make the main one caps to be easier to see -->
  <table width="100%">
   <!-- main page -->
  </table>
  <table valign="bottom" width="25% align="center">
   <!-- your bottom stuff...valign doesnt always work, but its worth a try -->
  </table>
</TABLE>

something like that

fifeclub — Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:34:45 +0000

I only threw that background image in there to see what it would look like. I didn't even try to put a background image in that bottom left corner because I knew that it would never lineup due to the fact that the row above it is variable height, and hence couldn't predict how the above background would end off.

As for the making the graphic seemless. I threw that particular graphic in there as a test. I kinda like the way it looks so I've since figured out exactly where to crop the image so that it will be seemless as a background.

And as for the problem... I could try rowspan=2 which would definitely allow those two areas to be seemless, but I want that content to be forced down to the bottom. Is there some way I can force the logo and that d### text to always go to the bottom no matter how long the page is? Can I work around this one obstacle by putting a 100% height table inside the merged dual-cell, between the menu and this bottom content? I guess that could work

disaster-master — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:40:01 +0000

It looks like you have a HUGE image there for the background image. I saved it to my hard drive and it is width="150" height="1000"! I don't know how you squeezed that huge image into that little table cell but ya did.

Anyway, what you should do is creat a seamless image... say about width="100" (or however wide that cell is) X height="50" pixels and let it tile vertically.

Ideally, you should probably have all the content on the left side (menu, cell that the background image is in now and the cell at the bottom) wrapped inside a table. But to do this you are probably going to have to redo your whole layout. That way you could set the background in the table instead of the one individual cell.

The reason that little bit at the bottom left isn't showing the background image is you don't have a background image set for that cell. Only the one above it.

Hope I made at least a little bit of sense.

Sonia

seamless image example

Suzanne — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 19:37:11 +0000

rowspan?