Re: border headaches

Karen,

Other than maybe a bit too much of an extension on the edges of you side
diamonds, it doesn't look all that bad... I don't think the average person
is going to notice the minor connectivity problems.

Something to consider, though, would be to design four specific corner
graphics for the corners, and then determine exactly how wide the table must
be to present what you want while lining up the corner and top/bottom parts
perfectly. As for the sides lining up, that can be adjusted at the bottom
with a little bit of "white space" filler to lengthen the up-down part of
the text region so the edges liine up properly as well. I'll admit right now
that I DID NOT look at the source code, just the final results, so what I
describe might not be feasable here.

Of course, that's assuming I understand your problem correctly. :-)

I've always tried to avoid repeating patterns in navbars and borders for
just this reason, but from what I see, the four-corners trick may be all you
need to do to get what you want.

Good luck,
Kehvan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Noteworthy Web Designs" <webmaster(at)noteworthydesigns.com>
To: "HWG Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 19:52
Subject: border headaches


> I'm going absolutely nuts. I have a customer who wants a diamond-shaped
> (seems more like Aztec) border around the information tables on his
> site. He wants everything symmetrical, just like a rug border, and
> submitted a design done by a graphic artist. I have tried and tried to
> get this thing to look right, but the design itself is funky. Look at
> http://www.orientalrugcleaners.com/about_us.htm and any other page on
> the site. The about us page is set so that the side borders have all the
> tips showing, but it makes the corners, especially at the right, look
> very funky. On the other pages, the corners don't look bad, but the
> "tips" on the side borders aren't showing altogether. And, yes, I've
> already tried to get him to have the diamond going in all the same
> direction (white corners all facing either across or vertical, and the
> black corners the opposite), but that's not what he wants. Help!!! By
> the way, I'm not using a "strip", but just one image as a background.
> The images are diamond.gif and diamond_side.gif. I've been with this guy
> for two months, and this little detail is all that's keeping us from
> wrapping this baby up!
>
> --
> Karen Stafford
> Noteworthy Web Designs
> "Websites Composed with Jazz"
> Web Design,Hosting,Search Promotion
> http://www.noteworthydesigns.com
>
>
>

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