Request reviews on a heel table...

Really the table was a mind blowing hell to get what the 'customer'
wants. Geez, whoever invented customers?

Any way, it is supposed to appear as it is, text and 6 images,
humungous ones at that. Again, the customer says, so what!

tables, and rows, and table cells, table cells table cells, - oh my.
Then more rows, and cells and cells of all kinds of whoa what has
happened!

When you must design your web pages as if they were on paper
(remember...MUST! The customers says - must appear like this and sends
a word .doc file!) is there a way to get this effect? 6 images which
are dissimilar in width and height fixed to the page (no floating on
browser minimizing, etc.) so the 'uneven' spacing can be done. They
must maintain the alignment on outside edges, and the other foo hacked
using TR and TD tags, --- ACK, that was ugly.
It's over for now, but this customer may wish to change this page from
time to time and worms...cans of worms.

http://www.peterlangshowroom.com/showroom.html

bbondi (AT) pacbell (DOT) net (Bob) wrote:

When you must design your web pages as if they were on paper
(remember...MUST! The customers says - must appear like this and sends
a word .doc file!) is there a way to get this effect?

Screenshot the Word Doc and stick that up. If the customer doesn't
want a web page then don't give them a web page.

6 images which
are dissimilar in width and height fixed to the page (no floating on
browser minimizing, etc.) so the 'uneven' spacing can be done. They
must maintain the alignment on outside edges, and the other foo hacked
using TR and TD tags, --- ACK, that was ugly.

I've seen far uglier.

Try resizing the font size. Because of all your   the gaps
between images change. From the sound of it that's not what the
customer wanted. But I won't tell them. ;-)

It's over for now, but this customer may wish to change this page from
time to time and worms...cans of worms.

Contracts. If the client is paying by the hour then you just have to
set a reasonable rate to cover your therapy bills. If they have a
maintenance contract in which you do updates for a fixed cost then you
need to make sure that the contract limits how extensive the updates
can be.

http://www.peterlangshowroom.com/showroom.html

Actually that page could be done with CSS without too much hassle.
Using absolute positioning you could get the same appearance at
"normal" font sizes and a slight shift at much larger ones. The
problem of horizontal scrolling in smaller windows would still be
there but updating the page with different sized images would be
easier.

Steve

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