Newbie question – frame and cells resizing issues

Question

I am a newbie to ‘efficient web designing’. I
have done previously simpler works.
This is what I am trying to do this time. I am creating a
modular web site where I will be using only one design layout(800 x
600) and repeating that 3-4 times along the length of a single page
and also in all the other pages on the website ( using same layout
but different contents). The way I started is
1) Created a design layout in Photoshop
2) Created slices
3) Saved all sliced images in image folder
4) Created one large table 800x600 (size of a single layout
module) in dreamweaver
5) Created nested tables inside the main table, (based upon
different cell divisions)
6) Created cells in the tables corresponding to slice layout
in the photoshop
7) Inserted the sliced images in the corresponding cells to
recreate my photosop layout in dreamweaver.
8) The issue that I am having is that the cells are not
getting to be the size of the images.
SO HOW DO I MAKE MY CELLS FIT MY IMAGES. I tried putting the
size of my sliced images in the property box of the cells but the
cells just won’t become of that size. What is stopping them?
What could I be doing wrong? Is my working method appropriate for
what I want to achieve?
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Not really sure what you are trying to achieve... but
creating an 800x600
web page with Photoshop sliced images is not "efficient we
designing"
Everyone sets the size of their web browsers to a differant
size depending
on taste, visual accuity and the task at hand. Table cells
are simply
elastic containers. Think of them like a baloon. Small when
you take it
out of the bag but potentially really big with enough hot
air.
A cell will expand to fit whatever you put into it, but it
starts out small.
If you put a 200x200 slice of image as a background, you need
to somehow set
the size of the cell to 200x200, but if you put too much text
in the cell,
it will grow larger than 200x200 and leave your background
either stranded
with gaps around it or tiled and repeating itself.
If you put the slices directly into the cells, make sure you
have all
padding, cell spacing, and margins set to 0. Now, you won't
be able you put
text over the image but you could use hot spots or just
direct links from
the image.
Photoshop is an image editing program originally created for
print
applications. What you need to
consider is creating you web site in a flexible format and
augmenting your
design with images editied in Photoshop.
Best idea is get some books on html and css and learn what
you can about web
design, then add your graphics.
"yamirb" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I am a newbie to ?efficient web designing?. I have done
previously simpler
> works.
> This is what I am trying to do this time. I am creating
a modular web site
> where I will be using only one design layout(800 x 600)
and repeating that
> 3-4
> times along the length of a single page and also in all
the other pages on
> the
> website ( using same layout but different contents). The
way I started is
> 1) Created a design layout in Photoshop
> 2) Created slices
> 3) Saved all sliced images in image folder
> 4) Created one large table 800x600 (size of a single
layout module) in
> dreamweaver
> 5) Created nested tables inside the main table, (based
upon different cell
> divisions)
> 6) Created cells in the tables corresponding to slice
layout in the
> photoshop
> 7) Inserted the sliced images in the corresponding cells
to recreate my
> photosop layout in dreamweaver.
> 8) The issue that I am having is that the cells are not
getting to be the
> size
> of the images.
>
> SO HOW DO I MAKE MY CELLS FIT MY IMAGES. I tried putting
the size of my
> sliced
> images in the property box of the cells but the cells
just won?t become of
> that
> size. What is stopping them? What could I be doing
wrong? Is my working
> method
> appropriate for what I want to achieve?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>