How to get sliced image into my table ?

Question

hi all :)
i have created a sliced image of my country and added
rollover with disjointed fx.
i have also exported the code which works fine by it self.
however when i try to get the code into a table cell on my
website it breaks the table.
so please can you tell me what i have to do inorder to make
it fit in please.
the site is www.365cityads
dot com.
here you can see a placeholder map of sweden thats were
i want the sliced map to be
you can view the working map here on
www.365cityads
dot com/xmap/swemap.html
here you can see that everything is working but breaks when
i try to get it to the index.php page.
please can anyone help me with this multiple nested table
situation
thanks
K

Answer 1

krughan wrote:
> Hi pixlor :)
> pixlor maybe im missing the bigger picture and there is
something i can learn
> or maybe its due to my understanding of english.
>
> after slicing up up sweden into 21 counties then
exporting it to html
> it worked fine no problems at all. (are you saying i
need not slicing ?)
>
> my problems became about when i tried to fit the map
into a table cell on my
> site (365cityadds.com where you can see the map working
now) that was the
> problem before as it was breaking up
> on every attempt.
>
> so i looked back on the orginal could working map code
and notice
> there were 3 parts to it 1st to go in the header 2nd to
go in the desired cell
> destination then the 3rd part was attached below
> (is it here that im doing worng ?)
>
> as i said the map is in the right place on the site and
seems to be doing what
> i wanted. however what i cant get over is the amount of
code generated by
> firefox which makes the map slow to load on initial
entry to the site (im
> using preload images too)
> (maybe im doing something wrong here. am i ?)
>
> pixlor, by no way am i being confrontational with you in
any sort
> of way. i assumed that you thought i was slicing the map
sections into 21
> matching table cells, how ever my assumption may and can
be totaly wrong.
>
> if you have time to look at the front page of the site
and see the
> usage of the map and its code via right click . just to
see if i used
> the software as intended. :) thanks.
>
> i have use FW a few time (im not an expert) to do
smaller stuff and
> i really thought that i was using it correctly but if
there are other
> way that can make the map speed, cut code and/or an
effecient
> way of doing the same thenig then i ask you please let
me know
> or provide me with a link to reference(s)
>
> thank you again for responding. your input means alot to
me
>
> Thanks
> k
>
>
>
>
This kind of complexity would be much better handled via
Flash, but that
may be outside your experience at this point.
The code you saw was NOT generated by Firefox; it was the
code generated
by Fireworks to pull off the effect you wanted. The lag you
experienced
was Firefox having to download the code to the user's browser
and then
Firefox having to parse and display all the elements
Generally, overlapping slices is not a good idea for many
reasons -
bloated code being one of them. Other issues that can occur
are
unreliable image display, multiple - unnecessary - sliced
images and
migraines from having to edit the code at the source level
<grin>.
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