I am using Blackboard for my online class now, but I am still figuring it out myself and don't know how to fix your problem with it.
Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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sj - Jul 14, 2006 9:26:24 am PDT #8469 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
amych - Jul 14, 2006 9:27:27 am PDT #8470 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
They should! but that's a separate rant for another time.... I'll see what I can find for you about test uploads after my next way-too-many meetings.
Typo Boy - Jul 14, 2006 9:45:00 am PDT #8471 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Can someone explain why tables for layout are so depreciated. I did a CSS replacement for a table layout and it has seperate hacks for netscape 4.0 , I.E. below 7 and I.E 7. It still doesn't work right in opera. At this point I'm ready to go back to friggin table - where none of the three columns will overlap in any browsers. By the time you have to a seperate "Div" for what would have been a cell in a table, what exactly does any of this gain?
Dana - Jul 14, 2006 9:46:43 am PDT #8472 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
When I did some reading on CSS a while ago, it was pretty well acknowledged that layout issues that could be easily solved with a table were still a major hurdle in CSS.
You've probably done the same reading, but I could dig out a few sites and the sample code they produced, if it would help.
tommyrot - Jul 14, 2006 9:50:20 am PDT #8473 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think they (standards people) want tables in CSS mostly for philosophical reasons. i.e, the idea tha only content goes in the HTML, and all formatting stuff goes in CSS.
Jon B. - Jul 14, 2006 10:13:05 am PDT #8474 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I asked a similar question about tables a while back: and Plei slapped me down (in a good way!).
Kristen - Jul 14, 2006 10:55:15 am PDT #8475 of 10003
I'm still using tables. Who knew I was an old-fashioned girl?
Sophia Brooks - Jul 14, 2006 11:08:11 am PDT #8476 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I'm sorry- I have another question that seems really stupid to me, but I just don't know the answer.
I have been asked to help make a brochure look nicer. The person who designed it (who is less knowledgable about the graphic arts than I) has images on it that are 96 dpi, but we're sending it to a commercial printer
a) am I right in saying those images will not print well
b) where does one get 300 dpi images with which to play around with in photoshop? He has a globe, some tissue under a microscope and some microbes under a microscope. Of course, no one wants to pay for anything....If I had illustrator, which I do not, I would be tempted to try and "draw" these things using something from the built in brushes, etc, but I am assuming that photoshop does not have these things (for some reason, I am just better at doing things other than random phtot retouching in Illustrator)
I am having a random and crappy day filled with tech problems that are above my head but everyone seems to think I should know.
Signed,
Not really a tech person OR a graphic designer
tommyrot - Jul 14, 2006 11:10:12 am PDT #8477 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
am I right in saying those images will not print well
Yes. They'll look nice on a monitor (monitors are typically 96 dpi), but they'll look like crap when printed.
Jessica - Jul 14, 2006 11:13:59 am PDT #8478 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sophia, you might try istockphoto -- they're not free, but they're very cheap, and they do have print-ready images.