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.

Sophia, you might try istockphoto -- they're not free, but they're very cheap, and they do have print-ready images.

You will need at least 300 dpi on those images. I'm not sure where to get photos to use in a brochure without paying for it. When I did the air charter brochure, I had to get clearances on all our images. Since I got the photos from aircraft owners who we used, they were happy to let us use them for free.

I just did a mailer where I got photos from istockphoto.com. It does cost money but the photos I used were only $10 each.

ETA: HA! X-post with Jessica.

You can buy clip art collections very cheap. quality may vary. ($10-$35) There are also some not so cheap collections used by professional graphics people - $200 bucks per collection - but obviously these are extensive, super-high quality and used by houses that do graphic design all day long for a living.

THank you guys. Imma think I am going home soon, because I want to commit hari kari (sp?) over this. I am verra frustrated

Sophia, if you're still around, your help desk (and the Blackboard manual, from which they lifted their doc) is on crack (and not even the good crack!) and the sample text file you linked to is correct. No parentheses or quotes are needed. I'll email you with a more detailed answer, but I figure nobody needs to suffer through this stuff if they don't actually have to.

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.

Yeah it would help. The probelm is I'm trying to keep my "columns" of equal width (not length since this is layout I have no border) All the solutions of found (whether involving float or not) that would across browsers involve sizing columns in pixels - which of course varies from computer to computer. I want to size in percents the way you can with tables. But so far no love if I want cross browser compatability. And then I'm still going to h ave to find a a way to degrade gracefully for computers that don't support CSS. So yeah any solutions to the table problem that work with percents would be welcome.

Thanks amych! I hate being in the position where I know enough to KNOW when people are on crack (like this response and the 96 dpi printing thing) but not really know enough to fix it!

It also makes me angry that the person who was helping me was on crack, because she isn't just the help desk, she is the administrator and final arbiter of everything blackboard at my entire school! And she wanted me to buy third party software to solve the issue!

You're doing a three-column?

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Amych-- where did you email me? My old address (ntlr@mail.rochester.edu) goes nowhere-- nbrookstaylor at gmail.com is better....