Murray *ACE* wrote:
> EWWWW - not Template Monster. What a schlock place....
>

Yeah - at least point the OP to a place where one can learn from the
comments within both the css and x/html markup like (unashamed plug for
friend coming up)....

http://www.csstemplates.com.au/


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chin chin
Sinclair

Adding my 2 cents...

malcster2 posted in macromedia.dreamweaver:

> hello, i have almost completed this site for a friend.
>
> i would appreciate any opinions and ideas you may have.
> i have a couple of links to finish, and will probably be replacing the
> spry menu with a cssmenu , but apart from that, it is pretty much done.

Until then, you might want to fix the 404 error:

GET /SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownx.gif HTTP/1.1
Referer: http://www.malcmabe.co.uk/SpryAssets...izontalsue.css
HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found

Also, with JavaScript turned off, there is no way to get to the Drug Abuse
Pages. I don't know Spry, but maybe you can set the main menu to link to
another page that has links to the drug pages?

> so if anyone has any code, or design opinions, please let me know.
>
> the site is http://www.malcmabe.co.uk/sueindex.html

Images/back.jpg could be much smaller in byte size if you make it 1x300 or
5x300 instead of 1000x300. No need for 1000 pixels wide since it's a vertical
gradient and you're using repeat-x anyway.

Several of the images are scaled by the HTML rather than using a graphics
program to scale them. Scaling *down* for small images isn't too bad, but
scaling up is rarely any good. Graphics programs can sometimes upscale better
if you have to go in that direction.

Which ever method you use to scale the images, you are not scaling some of
them proportionally. ie: Showing a 132x170 image at 190x130 stretches and
distorts the image.



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Keep-On-Learnin' :)

Murray *ACE* wrote:
> You can hardly do better than the Page Packs from PVII -
>
> http://www.projectseven.com/
>

But of course, that goes without saying.

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Sinclair

my next step is to replace the spry bar. i've hunted around on how to do this
with css, but because of the drop down menus, there's not a lot out there that
doesn't use javascript, which is what i'm trying to get away from. the best
i've found doesn't work properly in opera.

i've never used it before, but how does the dreamweaver navigation tool holdup
to it's more complicated counterparts?

my next step is to replace the spry bar. i've hunted around on how to do this
with css, but because of the drop down menus, there's not a lot out there that
doesn't use javascript, which is what i'm trying to get away from. the best
i've found doesn't work properly in opera.

i've never used it before, but how does the dreamweaver navigation tool holdup
to it's more complicated counterparts?

Hi.
Visit this site. Has color palette generator from images:
http://tinyurl.com/5vpwpo



"Hunter Elliott" <nospam@gatewaycity.com> escribió en el mensaje de noticias
news:g94f9d$ji3$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>
> "Walt F. Schaefer" <walt@waltswebworx.com> wrote in message
> news:g94cpk$gac$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>> Then pick colors from the sunset and reduce their brightness and
>> saturation values (HSB color model). You get nice soft, muted tones that
>> are completely harmonious with the sunrise image.
>
> a quick way to create a color palette from an image (and the actual menu
> options will vary depending on the app one uses) is to take the image and
> tile/pixelate it - depending upon the size of the tiling/pixelization you
> do, you'll get varying sizes of color blocks. This is not my site, but
> it's a quick demonstration of what I mean.
> http://www.artistmike.com/article6/C...gAPalette.html
>

A fully compliant drop-down menu will have to use javascript. It's OK to do
that, though, since the USABILITY of that menu doesn't depend on the js,
only its cosmetic appearance. I'd definitely go with PVII's approach in
PopMenuMagic.

http://www.projectseven.com/

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"malcster2" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:g95jnl$1vu$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> my next step is to replace the spry bar. i've hunted around on how to do
> this
> with css, but because of the drop down menus, there's not a lot out there
> that
> doesn't use javascript, which is what i'm trying to get away from. the
> best
> i've found doesn't work properly in opera.
>
> i've never used it before, but how does the dreamweaver navigation tool
> holdup
> to it's more complicated counterparts?
>

"Walt F. Schaefer" <walt@waltswebworx.com> wrote in message
news:g94l3q$reu$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Very clever, Thanks Hunter. I'll add it to my bag of tricks.

yeah, in a way, it's kind of obvious, but also not :) it was one of the
things I talked about at Foster's conf in Phoenix back in July.

"djinn" <scobies@dsl.pipexYerKitAff.com> wrote in message
news:g94lq3$sdb$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>
> The freebies here are quite useful too......
>
> http://www.colorschemer.com/
>
> and
>
> http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
>

didn't know about that last one. Thanks, Sinclair! Here are some of the
other ones I use:
http://wellstyled.com/tools/
http://www.easyrgb.com/
http://www.taubmans.com.au/homePaint.../roomscape.asp - although this
is for a paint company, I thought the way clicking on a palette changed the
look of the room was a great idea.
http://www.worqx.com/color/combinations.htm
http://colorblender.com/

"Miguel" <nose@aunmenos.com> wrote in message
news:g95p2v$953$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi.
> Visit this site. Has color palette generator from images:
> http://tinyurl.com/5vpwpo
>

Miguel, thanks for that link - I wasn't familiar with that one, either.