Advice on this banner

[Guest]

www.candyapplevideo.com

I'm using FP 2002, and trying to get the foundation set before I start
building the website.

I made this banner in Photoshop. In another thread people told me it might
be too big, so I should split it into pieces and put each individual piece
into tables.

What I have done here is created a .gif that was big enough and put it in my
page as the background image. My first question is...After viewing this
page, do you see anything wrong with this?

Follow up question if it's okay...My plan was to now create three tables.
One on top for my logo. One on the left side for my menu. (Those two will
remain the same throughout the entire website). And, finally, one in the big
area for content, which will change depending on which page you visit. Does
anyone envision any problems with that?

Thanks for all your help.

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

It's 677 px wide, which is not too big, but you will have to figure out how to gracefully meld the right side end. If you're gonna use fluid tables you'll need to chop a section out of the middle of the top banner to use as a collapsable section.

I would probably slice the top banner into three sections top left, top middle (collapsable area - which could be just a tiny slice), and top right. The left vertical nav area could be a separate slice. The white body you'd just discard rather than use up bandwith with white image.

I'm not a CSS guru yet, but I think you could use CSS and set very tiny slices of your image (areas that are repeatable) and have them repeat vertically and horizontally.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

It's fine just as it is.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
What You Seek Is What You Get.

 

[Trevor L.]

From a complete amateur

It doesn't fit 800*600. I have to scroll to see the complete sidebar.

The font, while nice and suits the theme of candyapple does render
"graphics" looking a bit like "graphios" which was a bit Greek to me when I
first saw it ))

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Cheers,
Trevor L.


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