dreamweaver is tickling my angry bone... [Archive]

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 02:21 PM

look: here (http://www.avalon-rev.dk)

my splash page...

IF you experience the same as me, look at the very bottom of the page, the grey image does not reach the bottom completely...

try refreshing the page.. the whole thing shifts 1 or 2 pixels to the right, and the alignment is 100% again, as it should be...

On my gf's com, everything looks good right from the start... so, why is this happening to me??

I tried deleting all my temp files, but to no avail :(

wut the friggin shizznella is going on???

lostinbeta

March 3rd, 2003, 02:24 PM

<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" background="backup/background_site.jpg">

1) You define no bottommargin or rightmargin width. I know DW doesn't do that, which I find weird, but you should add that manually.

2) Why use a background image of a solid color when you can just input the color code manually?

pinx

March 3rd, 2003, 02:26 PM

i don't see it moving anywhere. looks good to me.

except, your text is very very hard to read. is that just for show or what?

lostinbeta

March 3rd, 2003, 02:27 PM

And I realized something else...

<td><img src="backup/main_stretch.jpg" width="300" height="100%"></td>

Try defining that image as a background image of the td tag so that it gets repeated, then increase the height of the td cell so it reaches the bottom smoothly.

Inside the cell add a

 
It is a space in HTML, and it tells the browser that there is something in there.

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 02:28 PM

hard to read??

I used a special flash font... :( I was completely unreadable before...

lost: then why does it align correctly when I refresh? and I know about nbsp :sure: hehe.. I HAVE been working with html for a year or so now...

and then background image is because on my gf's com, the background isn't the color I've chosen... the color is not in the basic webcolor palette...

lostinbeta

March 3rd, 2003, 02:31 PM

I love the font :)

And I dunno man. It never fully reaches the exact edge for me at either the top or the bottom. There is a few px gap between the edges.

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 02:32 PM

bugger...

hm.. I'll try redoing it then... maybe do that background on the cells instead...

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 02:36 PM

YES!!

40 seconds of fiddling and it worked!! :beam:

now I'm happy again =)

(psst, lost.. thx! used a style class instead, worked like a charm ;) )

lostinbeta

March 3rd, 2003, 02:38 PM

Congrats man :) Works great on my end as well.

lostinbeta

March 3rd, 2003, 02:44 PM

Just a side note: You should disable the zooming in ability, it throws off the layout if you do that.

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 02:45 PM

hm, didn't even think about that one..

will do!

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 02:48 PM

DONE!

lostinbeta

March 3rd, 2003, 02:49 PM

Sweet :)

Now that the problem is solved I am moving this to server-side/scripting where it belongs :bad:

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 02:49 PM

:blush:

sooorryyy.....

lostinbeta

March 3rd, 2003, 02:50 PM

LOL. It's fine, I can never be mad at you Eilsoe :goatee:

RenaissanceGirl

March 3rd, 2003, 02:51 PM

Stylesheets fix everything.

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 02:53 PM

renn: YES!!

lost: That's because I'm so darn nice :blush:

lostinbeta

March 3rd, 2003, 02:54 PM

I fell in love with CSS the day I started learning it.

It makes EVERYTHING so much easier!

And yes you are Eilsoe :)

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 03:02 PM

:love:

Guig0

March 3rd, 2003, 03:14 PM

really cool =)

reminds me of a wrist watch :P

Jubba

March 3rd, 2003, 03:23 PM

I can't read the text.... :(

lostinbeta

March 3rd, 2003, 03:25 PM

Maybe you forgot to embed the font outlines Eilsoe. I have many pixel fonts on my system, so I can see it fine because I probably already have the font.

Did you remember to embed it?

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 03:26 PM

umm.. this might sounds ***-like..

how do I embed them?

lostinbeta

March 3rd, 2003, 03:27 PM

Click on your textbox. Open the properties panel (CTRL+F3) click on the button that says "Character..." and then choose to embed font outlines for all characters.

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 03:32 PM

oookey, i'll do that now then...

*edit: done, can ya read it now jubb?*

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 03:59 PM

AARGH!!!!

Now the text on some of the buttons are blurred :scream:

I used flash fonts JUST to get rid of blurred text...!!

lostinbeta

March 3rd, 2003, 04:01 PM

Its your positioning or alignment of text.

Your textbox must be on exact pixels and be aligned to the left (not centered or to the right). If you use another aligment you may have to manually fiddle with the decimals of the positioning. It is a pain.

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 04:05 PM

Oh god I hope macromedia fixes this soon...

also, there's the problem of distorted images when importing.. usually it either removes the bottom and right side (1px), or it stretches the images 1 px horizontally...

grr...

lostinbeta

March 3rd, 2003, 04:07 PM

The images problem is something Macromedia has to fix. The pixel font problem is a problem that can never go away.

The reason pixel fonts are so crisp is because they fall on exact pixels. Since Flash is vector based, if something doesn't fall on exact pixels it becomes anti-aliased, unlike in Photoshop where that doesn't happen. This is not Macromedias fault, its just something Vector does.

eilsoe

March 3rd, 2003, 04:11 PM

Ok I've tried moving it around on exact pixels, and aligning it and all.. doesn't werk...

lostinbeta

March 3rd, 2003, 04:15 PM

Can you post your .fla on your server so I can go grab it and take a look Eilsoe. You can PM me the link to it if you want.

Believe me, Ive had many a problem with Pixel Fonts, thats why I prefer Verdana. Almost Every OS comes with it installed so you don't really need to embed it, and it stays crisp. Anywho... about that .fla ;)