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why slice?

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confusedlady

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Apr 26, 2001
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I recently took over maintaining my church's website. Well, actually the person who started the design never got to finish it. He left the area, so I don't have any contact with him, either. For right now, I am just trying to finish what he started to get the site up. Then I'll work on changing it. Since my pastor liked his design, I'm trying to stay with what he was doing. The problem is, I am having a very hard time figuring out what that is, exactly.

Well, my main question is, he seems to have sliced large pics a lot (used Fireworks). They aren't snappy graphics or long-loading-sometimes it's really only a background. But it's set up in a table. What benefit is gained from doing this? The only thing I could think of was that he intended to add other behaviors (maybe some mouse-overs), but didn't get to it...

I haven't done much with websites since the 90's, so I have a lot to catch up on. I know this is "old school", but is it wrong to just use something simple for this? Maybe a table with the UNsliced image as the background?

Sorry so long! TIA, though.
 
it woudld make it harder (but not impossable) to save the image, load in bits, use for mouseover, use in stickout-of-table-cell effect ( the hawk in the upper left is in two cells)

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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Bombboy,
So he was probably intending on doing mouse-overs and that's why he sliced everything?

I'm just making guesses...
 
depends on the slice i guess. are the pieces anything that could be swapped for nav or anything neatly inside the slice that would indicate that? i.e. there isn't a slice down the center of something important is there?

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
 
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