For an example of what I am trying to do:

http://www.appleturns.com

or visit any iTools Photo Album page.

See the frames around the photos? See how the Mac window shows up around the articles?

I am trying to find out how to do that. I have had a few ideas, but they do not dynamically recreate themselves for different resolutions like these do.

Any ideas? Would be much appreciated. Creating a website for the “boss” that has family photo albums uploaded and created by them.

TIA.

The top is its own table with a fixed width.  Three Cells, Image, Text, Image.

The next table down has an interesting effect…

7 cells for the window bar, each one with a different background color and a spacer image (1x1 transparent gif set to different widths). a ten pixel cell for the white border around the “window” content.  The content cell itself.  Ten pixel border, then a copy of the same 7 cells from the beginning.

Third table…

One cell, one image of a specified width.

Specifying the width is the key.  If you want it full screen on a web site at 800x600 just set your table width to 770.  With this, it won’t resize horizontally, but it will resize vertically no matter how much content is in it.

Cool effect though.  If you find an effect that you like, just copy the code.  Nobody except really big corporations get mad when you copy their code… usually I’d be flattered if someone wanted to use my code.

methinks…

the easiest thing to do, is to find a page simmilar to what you want, save the source, delete out the parts you don’t want/need, and play with it a little.. find out whats going on, then go ahead and make your page with the knowlege you’ve aquired..

[quote author=“ERNesbitt”]If you find an effect that you like, just copy the code.  Nobody except really big corporations get mad when you copy their code… usually I’d be flattered if someone wanted to use my code.

This is true, and I’d probably be flattered too, but if the code is COPIED, or even overly plagerized… always give credit where credit is due!! And it doesn’t help to ask for permission either… 

How I did that…

I use a program called Freeway.  I can put images and text wherever I want and it creates the HTML code where appropriate.

Later today, I’ll create some code that will create the “window around the table effect.”  It’s not that hard to do really.  The trick is to make the length of the sides changeable.