Dreamweaver - Images out of alignment on a PC

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Images out of alignment on a PC

Joe Bart

2004-02-10, 5:34 pm

On a MAC with OS 10.3.2 and DW mx, I have sliced an image into a layout table
in Photoshop and saved out the images with html. If i view the html out of
Photoshop on a PC running windows the layout looks fine. If I open that page in
dreamweaver make a couple of additions (such as text to the bottom of the page)
and save; it looks fine on my MAC but on the PC - images in the table are all
over the place

I have been working on this for 3 days and it's driving me crazy, please help
me salvage what is left of my dignity

Jo

James M. Shook

2004-02-10, 6:30 pm

In article <c0bi2s$lpv$1@forums.macromedia.com> , Joe Bart
<joe_bart@mac.com> wrote:

> I have been working on this for 3 days and it's driving me crazy, please help
> me salvage what is left of my dignity

Don't do that. Using an image editing program to create HTML is a one-way
ticket to Palookaville, chum. Use photoshop to make your images, use DW to
make your HTML.

The problem is that Photoshop (and Fireworks, and even Dreamweaver's Layout
Mode) do a good job of preserving the layout of the page *as it is when you
slice it* but do so by creating an ungainly, uneditable and overly-complex
single table that is held together by a fragile gossamer of rowspans,
colspans and shim graphics. Anything you change that causes a cell to grow
larger than it was when the table was created will cause other cells to grow
apart and the graphics in them to seperate and your page starts to go cubist
on you.

Learn some basic table-building skills and you will free yourself from the
tyranny of software that thinks it can do something it can't. At least not
well.

http://www.dwfaq.com is a good place to find tables tutorials, and a google
search should keep you out of trouble for a few days.

-- James M. Shook
http://www.jshook.com