Help with working out layout

Hi,
I trying to work out the best way to structure a layout for a
page that is
centered with a dropshadow on all sides, and for the main
large image and
text below to be flexible height to allow for different font
settings etc.
The way I initially layed it out, I did a plain white
background image for
each div, with the drop shadow on each side, but that makes
the heights
rigid.
This is a pic of what it should look like -
http://www.createddesign.com/waratahfibres/test.html
Regards
Fiona

Thanks Alec,
That was sort of what I thought might be the approach, but
wasnt sure of the
technicalities of it.
I will get right on it.
Thank you for your help.
fiona
"Alec" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:fo5vic$6vt$[email protected]..
> One idea. Do it with 3 divs: top, middle, bottom (or
maybe better semantic
> names masthead, content, footer).
>
> top:
> Contains a background image, a "cap" - the top portion -
a little bit of
> sides and the entire top. Let's assume a total width of
760px, including
> left/right shadows, and a height which includes the
whole
> masthead/branding.
>
> bottom:
> Another cap, but at the bottom. Again, a little bit of
sides and the full
> bottom. Let's assume a total width of 760px, including
left/right shadows,
> and a height of maybe 10px. Just enough for a little bit
of white at the
> bottom.
>
> middle:
> This is what allows unlimited height. Use a background
image also with a
> width of 760px, but a height of just about 5px (so you
can see it). It has
> the left/right shadow with the middle section just
white. Repeat-y. This
> background image spans the full width of the content
area and tiles
> vertically.
>
> Kind of hard to explain in words. In "ASCII art",
something like:
>
> TopTopTopTopTopTopTopTopTopTopTopTop
> MiddleMiddleMiddleMiddleMiddleMiddle
> MiddleMiddleMiddleMiddleMiddleMiddle
> MiddleMiddleMiddleMiddleMiddleMiddle
> MiddleMiddleMiddleMiddleMiddleMiddle
> MiddleMiddleMiddleMiddleMiddleMiddle
> BottomBottomBottomBottomBottomBottom
>
> --
> Alec
> Adobe Community Expert

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ORDER BY count(l.publication_paragraph);Leaving aside the missing join, the reason why your query as posted does not work is that when there is not a match on m.paragraph_alias_mapping = l.publication_paragraph Oracle will "make up" rows form lpm with all null columns for each row in lpm_paragraph_mapping_table where there is no match. So, when you compare those made up rows from lpm, you are effectively saying where NULL = 'EWR' and TO_CHAR(NULL, 'yyyy') = '2010'. Null is never equal to anything. Any comparision against null is unknown, so the made up rows get filtered out by your predicate.
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