Positioning Layers

Hoping someone can help...
I am working on a site (not done but here's the address:
thetayloredspa.com)
My menu bar is in a layer which overlaps the tables of the
page. I want it to be on the left side of the table, but not all
the way over. It looks right in DWMX, but is all over the place on
different screen resolutions. Is there a way to make it stay put
relating to the table?
TIA,
Sandy

Screen resolution is not the important factor here - it's
browser viewport
width. As this width changes, your tables seek new center
points. The
layers, being absolutely positioned, are stuck in their
specified locations,
so the tables move away from the layers. The fix is simple -
It depends on whether you are using absolute positioning on
the page, as to
which method might be best, but in either event, this will
work -
</head>
to this -
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
change this -
<body ...>
to this -
<body ...>
<div id="wrapper">
and this -
</body>
to this -

</div>
</body>
and see if that helps.
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"sandyinnh" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hoping someone can help...
>
> I am working on a site (not done but here's the address:
> thetayloredspa.com)
>
> My menu bar is in a layer which overlaps the tables of
the page. I want
> it to
> be on the left side of the table, but not all the way
over. It looks
> right in
> DWMX, but is all over the place on different screen
resolutions. Is there
> a
> way to make it stay put relating to the table?
>
> TIA,
>
> Sandy
>

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Newsgroup User
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> flow of the page (by virtue of being absolutely
positioned) neither the
> layer, nor its contents can interact with any other page
element.
>
>
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> Love your design, but absolutely positioned layers (to
quote Murray) "is
> like attempting to nail jelly to a wall"..
>
> I fear you will have to restructure using CSS positioned
DIVS.
> Not my forte, but others will be able to help.
>
>
> "tashmac" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>> Hi if you go to www.taxicredit.ie/index1.html you
will see that the
>> layers
> in
>> the pages are not positioned right although they are
in dreamweaver. If
>> i
>> position them off centre in dreamweaver they will be
correct for viewing
> in the
>> web but not for all settings. How can i position
these content layers in
>> dreamweaver so they will be positioned correct in
the web.
>>
>
>

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Look at all the apdiv's you have. Those are absolutely positioned layers. I'm assuming by your post that you are very new to Dreamweaver and HTML and CSS. I would highly recommend not using absolutely positioned layers until you have a better grasp on HTML and CSS.
Looking at your code I would suggest that you consider using one of Dreamweaver's built in, or downloadable templates as a starting point and work from there.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dreamweaver_custom_templates.html

Problems / Bugs / Improvements we have found - Experienced users.

Hello there,
I work for an animation / film company and After Effects is an integral part of out production services. As much as we love the program, its not without its flaws. Here are some things we have found after using After Effects day in and day out...
Clone Stamp :
Please can you add a keyframe-able 'offset' feature to the clone stamp source region? It seems that there isn't a great way of doing this without expressions. We found a workaround which is to offset the centre point of the tracker before we do the track, then parent the clone source region to this point. Theres a lot of people online who think the cloner is completely broken for use in video, but the problem is that theres no easy way to parent the source region to a tracker...
Rendering :
Practically every day we turn up to work and find that a lot of renders weren't successful. This causes us lots and lots of unnecessary stress and problems. If there is any stability fixes that you can do then we would be highly appreciative. (Possibly just making it so that the ram is purged after each clip is rendered? - It seems to be a memory problem half the time even though this machine has 64GB of ram...). Renders also seem to be excruciatingly slow at times, even though were using an extremely powerful machine; is there nothing that can be done to accelerate renders and/or use more of the computers resources? We have found that sometimes if we pre-render a comp, it renders pretty instantaneously when in the render queue, whereas we have seen the same comp stuck doing barely anything in the render queue for hours..?
Additionally, can there be a way to change the render path/settings of multiple renders in one go? Unless were mistaken, it seems like each clip has to be manually set up and this is extremely painstaking when working with a lot of files! Also media encoder doesn't seem to render files accurately quite a lot of the time, not sure at all where the problem is but we have totally stopped using this way of rendering now as the renders rarely come out as expected.
Switching between comps:
PLEASE can you create a MASTER FX switch, which will turn off ALL the effects and motion blur in the entire project (not just the comp you are in)? This would be an amazing feature as we spend SO much time just waiting for heavy comps to open just so we can add them to the render queue... Possibly this could not effects the final render, but just allow you to quickly get into a comp? We know that caps lock stops any preview being loaded but there are many limitations to this approach.
Motion blur:
Sometimes we notice that if we have motion blur switched on inside of pre-comps, the blur is being calculated and applied multiple times, which looks horrible and takes forever to calculate... A master motion blur controller is long overdue in After Effects and programs such as Nuke have had this feature since day 1. We would love to see this feature and i'm sure there are many others who would too!
3D controls:
We would love to see better 3D controls for positioning layers etc - if there were improvements on the 3D manipulation tools (Rotate,translate,scale...) to resemble the look of a full 3D program, our lives would be much easier .
Mesh warp / Nulls:
It would be amazing to be able to parent points on the mesh warp to a null object, or at least give every mesh warp point a positional value. This would enable animators to create much improved 2D rigs for characters etc! At the moment the mesh warp isn't very robust and is difficult to get the desired control and effect.
Lens blur/Depth of field:
Can you please add an easier way to see what is in focus and whats not, when using a depth pass? There is a great feature in Nuke which allows u to see where the depth of field is taking place called 'focal plane setup', but it seems that after effects is a case of trial and error when dealing with this kind of task! Would also be amazing if you could simply click the area you want to be in focus (like in Nuke )
Duplicating comps and child comps:
PLEASE can you add an option to duplicate a comp as well as all the comps inside of it? If your dealing with complex projects it is horrific to have to go in and duplicate the comp then ALT drag the duplicate in so your not destroying other comps linked to that comp (hope that doesn't sound too confusing!). There are some scripts when claim to add this functionality but we've had no joy with any of these so far...
Multiple comps / new viewer problems
This is a big one for me and my colleagues. When there are two comp viewers on screen, please can you make the timeline switch to the corresponding comp when you click within the viewer window? Its a huge pain to have to switch between timelines when your doing this! Please can you also add the option to add real time updates in both comp viewers when you have two comp viewers on screen? It seems that only one updates in real time which can be pretty annoying...
I think thats everything for now, it would be amazing if you could rectify some of these problems as i know it would make a lot of people very happy!
Cheers!

Some of the issues you're describing already have fixes underway. Specifically rendering and switching between comps. The Adobe folks have said that the majority of the After Effects team is working on making AE behave differently (much more quickly) in interactivity and rendering. As I've heard it described, it sounds a lot like it'll answer both of those issues.
I believe I speak for all of us who use AE every day when I say, "We cannot wait! (Well, we can wait until the bugs are squashed...but you know what we mean!)" If you missed the initial public discussion on this: Happy New Year! ~ and a question… The overwhelming response to that question was FASTER! And the AE team listened. YAY!
Please have you (and everyone on your team who cares) file feature requests for the rest of these too. It would be great to be able to have the functionality of the True Comp Duplicator script a little more robustly and integrated into AE! And the DOF thing is a biggie too. Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form
The folks on the AE team do listen to feature requests and the more they get for a certain feature, the higher priority it gets.
This is just a forum for users to help each other. Granted, the AE team is great about looking in too, but feature requests are the official way for them to track these things.
And, hey, EVERYONE ELSE reading this; file feature requests too! Adobe wants us to stay subscribed and happy, so let them know what we need/want.

Getting rid of horizontal scroll bar

how do you make it so if a window is not fully maximizedthere
is no scroll bar? For example if you AIM window is up and docked on
most sites there is no horizontal scroll bar but on the site im
building there is.....
see links for examples.
With
Horizontal Scroll Bar
Without
Horizontal Scroll Bar

It's been a while since I looked at this... basically just
put everything in a centered wrapper and let the divs position
themselves the way they are supposed to. You rarely ever need to
use positioning/layers.
=========================
And... what I always say:
"write it for FireFox then hack it for IE."
Use the right
DocType
Validate your Markup
Validate your CSS
Why you want to
validate
Don't
use tables for layout

Missing 1px p border in IE(6)...

This is a page of a layout I've been working on - have now
managed to get it pretty much working in IE, safari, firefox, and
IE Mac (thanks Osgood for the help
I do have one issue that I can't seem to resolve tho' - the
1px border above the footer isn't appearing in IE6.
The page is
here
And the CSS for the footer is :
#footer {
font-size: 9px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #666666;
margin-top: 20px;
#footer p {
border-top: 1px solid #333333;
padding: 6px 0 12px 0;
background-color: #fff;
#footer a:link {color: #666666; text-decoration: none;}
#footer a:visited {color: #666666; text-decoration: none;}
#footer a:hover {color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;}
#footer a:active, #footer a:focus {color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;}
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Iain

dukla wrote:
> Thanks again - I had actually tried that, but found the
spacing too much, even
> when I cut the top padding in the <p> to 0 - what
was missing was the margin: 0.
>
> I've just about got everything working, and have been
adding in some links,
> and putting in a couple of <includes>.
>
> There's just a couple of glitched with the
>
http://www.handprintwebdesign.co.uk/CollinsBartholomew/index.shtml.
>
it's not seeing
> the grey backgrounds of the menus in IE mac, as was
happening previously.
Yeah I've known this for days and why I was becoming more and
more
frustrated.
Something somewhere in your css is causing MacIE5x issues
with rendering
the grey background on the <a> tags for the submenus.
They are there but
the absolutely positioned layers are appearing beneath the
other <divs>
hence you don't see the grey background. This shouldn't be so
and I have
never encountered this before in MacIE5x.
I would need to rebuilt the whole page step by step to sort
this out. I
have tried just about everything I can think of, giving the
layers high
z-indexes, giving the other <divs> low indexes and
nothing has worked
correctly x-browser.
Unless anyone else has encountered this before I'm at a loss
to know
exactly which part of your css is accountable for this.
Im sure if I rebuilt the page from scratch this wouldn't be
an issue. It
has simply got to be an issue with the way the page/css is
initially set-up.

Solid 3d issue

I have been following a tutorial using the camera with some text to create a 3 D effect but I had the following issue. I create a comp
I created a solid and added a ramp gradient for my background
I created a camera layer
I created a null object and parented the camera to it - turned on 3d
I created a text layer - turned on 3d
When I change my camera view the ramp effected solid disappears and the comp background shows.
If I toggle the transparency then there is no background at all.
If i use 3d mode on the solid I can see it but I don't want the solid to be 3d I want it to be 2d like the comp background Where am I going wrong? I noticed that in the tutorial when he created the comp there was no choice in his settings to choose a colour. Maybe older versions didnt automatically create a background?? If I cant keep my solid background layer in 2d then how do I add a ramp to the comp background? Cheers

When I change my camera view the ramp effected solid disappears and the comp background shows.
This is the normal and proper behavior. Your 2D layers only show up under Active Camera or Camera. The other views, Front, Top, Custom, are only there to aid in positioning layers in 3D space. These other views won't render, but they will ram preview so many inexperienced users will set up a project using one of the custom views and then wonder why the rendered movie doesn't look like their project.
Only the Active camera renders. From one of these other views you can look at each camera and each layer in your composition but you won't see the 2D layers at all.
Only the top camera in the timeline will be the Active Camera and that's the only view that will render when you output your movie. You can cut between cameras by adjusting the in and out point of the camera layers.
Custom view 1 shows both cameras. Camera 2 is the blue one (you can change the color of your wireframes). Camera one is the orange one. Only Camera 2 will render, but I can select Camera one and see the 2D gradient background.
But only the active camera will render so my completed project will look like this:
You can see the gradient behind the floor that I added to the comp to give a sense of reality to the 3D text layer. I have view camera wireframes set to always on in the View Options because that's the way I prefer to work. The wireframes won't render, or ram preview.

Swf object/embed issue in IE5.2 on Mac

I have embedded a flash swf file inside a table. It displays
and is positioned just fine across most platforms/browsers EXCEPT
for on a Mac in IE 5.2 and it's driving me insane. In IE5.2 on a
Mac, the flash movie plays OK, but it is not positioned inside the
table (which is inside of a layer). I've tried putting the swf
inside of a nested table but that didn't work. I'm at a loss. Can
anyone suggest a workaround?
Here
is my page
Any help is much appreciated,
christopher

> I've been told to be careful using layers in this way
> but I thought I was covering most of my bases by using
relative
> positioning.
All of the divs on your page are absolutely positioned. I
don't see a
single relatively positioned one. But be aware that one
doesn't just switch
absolute for relative without invoking an entirely new layout
model. It's
not like a toggle.... Here is some of your CSS -
#layActivities {
position:absolute;
left:14px;
top:-176px;
width:350px;
z-index:9;
visibility: hidden;
height: 300px;
#layAccom {
position:absolute;
left:16;
top:124;
width:400px;
z-index:10;
visibility: hidden;
height: 300px;
#layAbout {
position:absolute;
left:416px;
top:36px;
z-index:7;
overflow: hidden;
width: 750px;
height: 325px;
visibility: hidden;
#layLocation {
position:absolute;
left:16px;
top:124px;
width:400px;
z-index:11;
visibility: hidden;
height: 300px;
> All of my layers are relatively positioned using this
gif as the anchor
Uhh - clearly you don't understand how relative positioning
works. Relative
positioning takes its base location from the coordinates of
the nearest
positioned ancestor container. You cannot relatively position
to an image.
> The page has a single row table (w=100%)with a
spacer.gif centered in the
> row.
> All of my layers are relatively positioned using this
gif as the anchor so
> onload and resizing of the browser, everything moves.
The layer dimensions
> are
> control by css.
Perhaps I am not looking at the correct page? But anyhow, a
layer is not
relatively positioned as far as DW is concerned. Layers are
only absolutely
positioned elements.
> I'm guessing that "tick" just means resizing of text up
or down. Since
> I'm
> using CSS, I didn't realize I need to worry about the
resizing of text but
> I
> guess I'm wrong on this?
Yes. Using CSS or not, there is no way to prevent someone
from resizing
your text.
> Is there a was to control whether or not people can
> do this?
Unequivocally, no.
> I specifically set the overflow of my 'layers' to be
hidden to avoid
> any scroll bars, and the reason I'm using relatively
positioned layers in
> the
> first place is because my client doesn't want an all
flash site but they
> like
> the control I have over how & when the layers are
displayed.
See discussion above.
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> Hey thanks for the responses. I develop on a PC and use
FF as my primary
> browswer and absolutely abhor IE (and have for some
time). A friend of a
> client brought this IE/Mac issue to me and so I was
trying to resolve it,
> even
> though I know most Mac users use Safari or FF. I'm a
little confused
> about
> Ace's response though. I've been told to be careful
using layers in this
> way
> but I thought I was covering most of my bases by using
relative
> positioning.
>
> The page has a single row table (w=100%)with a
spacer.gif centered in the
> row.
> All of my layers are relatively positioned using this
gif as the anchor so
> onload and resizing of the browser, everything moves.
The layer dimensions
> are
> control by css.
>
> I'm guessing that "tick" just means resizing of text up
or down. Since
> I'm
> using CSS, I didn't realize I need to worry about the
resizing of text but
> I
> guess I'm wrong on this? Is there a was to control
whether or not people
> can
> do this? I specifically set the overflow of my 'layers'
to be hidden to
> avoid
> any scroll bars, and the reason I'm using relatively
positioned layers in
> the
> first place is because my client doesn't want an all
flash site but they
> like
> the control I have over how & when the layers are
displayed.
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
> Christopher
>

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