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simplest background image code in table

· Troubleshooting · 2 posts · Apr 16, 2005 View original thread ↗

#1 Sat, 16 Apr 2005 - 12:07

Hi,

Here is the site-
http://islandgeographic.com/

At first I-
colored the body background black
made a one cell table with a jpg non tiled background image
used a png with transparancy for the text in the table.

This-
makes the background image easily replacable
makes the text crisp
keeps the file as small as possable

But-
the background image blinks and dissapears in IE 5.5 (win)
works fine in Safari and IE5.2 (mac)

What is the best way to-
have a crisp small image?
crisp small text over image?
keep compatability with older browsers?

Thanks-Brad

#2 Sat, 16 Apr 2005 - 12:07

if you're going with images for everything, just make it all one picture

then you can either use an image map, or split it into little pieces.

since you've got a jpeg background, putting the text into it won't increase the file size, the only downside is that you'll have to resave it whenever you want to change it.

--Will