Bob Summers — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:24:34 +0000

Thanks. That's a different way to do it. The original that I had seen did not use any background graphic at all. It just relied on a colored table background. The only graphic was the push-pin.

Yours would probably would look better since you actually get to use a "graphic" of piece of paper complete with all it's realisitic imperfections, shadows, etc. I might add a column on the left side too so that any typed in text will appeared centered on the paper.

Since I'm not an artist, I'll have to search for a graphic of a piece of paper to chop up for the table sections.

Bob Summers

Megan — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:26:58 +0000

Here's a sample. The red lines represent your table borders. So, you see, that the white note part is actually made up of parts of several table cells. It looks like it's all one, but it's not.

http://www.webmaster-forums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=74&stc=1

2 part push pin graphic

Bob Summers — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:38:24 +0000

Troy -- Thanks for the corkboard reference. It saved me looking for one.

Megan -- Your idea sounded good so I gave it an initial try but failed. I'm not quite sure that it's possible to make a graphic appear in, say, a yellow cell (part of the actual note) and at the same time, overhang into a cell with the same color as the html background. The image is always contained fully inside a single cell, unless I'm missing something obvious here.

Splitting the graphic (or hopefully finding one that is already split) seems the most viable way to me.

Thanks

Bob Summers

Megan — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:19:28 +0000

It's probably not actually a two part pushpin. It's probably just one graphic with the pushpin stuck through a background the same colour as the html background. You could just chop the pin in two parts and try to do it that way but it would be much easier just to keep it all one graphic. A little visual trickery and nobody will know the difference.

Troy1960 — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 01:02:14 +0000

Here's the corkboard...
http://www.corkboard.com/corkboard/cork.gif

Do a search on Imagebank.com and you can find some thumb tacks.