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The trick to designing a site is making it flexible enough were it looks generally how you want it for everybody who looks at it, but where people with special needs can still use the site without much trouble. If you want an image lined up vertically beside a text string done as a graphic, and the two sets balanced on the page taking up a certain portion of the width (horizontal) screen space, then its better do place the graphics with things like a table set to 90% screen with, centered, and the images in the cells themselves arranged with centering and justification commands, becasue those are goingto keep things in the same *relative* positions no matter what screen size the end user is viewing with. Absolute positioning using DIV tags makes a screen that looks great for one screen size, ok for the few sizes close to that, but it can create some truly unreadable websites on older browsers, non-Windows operating systems, browsers for the visually or physically impared, and people with significantly different monitor resolutions than the one it is designed on. DIV tags should only be used as a last resort, and then only for formatting major sections of the screen, and using smaller tables after that to handing particular strips of horizontal and vertical alignment. I did use DIV tags on one page of my employer's site http://windhamschooldistrict.org/index.php and I had to go back and tweak the code very specifically at least a dozen times after viewing it with about 8 differnt browser & OS combinations in order to get results that looked better than laying it out in a table and living with a little extra whitespace. But without viewing it with both Netscape and IE on both a Mac and a PC, I could not tell how my choices for the DIV positionings and style tweaks were blowing up or causing text overlaps. It took about a week of tweaks before I was satisfied with it, and I've been designing web sites since before you could put pictures on a webpage. Lazygardens *is* giving good advice. I always start my client's sites by laying out the content and the functional aspects. On the last site we did, the shopping cart and storefront was built before we even decided on a color scheme or a logo. Only after we laid out what we wanted the site to do, what we wanted it to say, and how we were going to lead their customers through the site did we start putting in bells and whistles. Why? Because the bells and whistles are secondary to the site content. Not everyone can hear background music or see images (some people block them from downloading to save bandwidth on slow connections) Everyone that browses the web can benefit from text. Even the visually impared can get benefit from a photo album with creative descriptions of what you want the image to convey. If you have company staying the night, you want to put clean sheets on the bed before dropping a mint on top. If you put the mint on the bed *before* changing the sheets, it only gets in the way while you are trying to get the truly necessary stuff done. I'm not oppossed to putting fluff and frills on a page, *IFF* its something that enhances the page content instead of being something that intereferes with the real content of the page. Content and functionality has to come first, otherwise visitor set off looking for a site that's less of a pain to use.

Here are 4 coding examples that you can play with. Have fun, hope this helps! Cheers, JoJo NOTE: I replaced the brackets with [ ] so that the html code would show. _______________ [head] [bgsound src="http://www.site.com/filename.wav" loop=2] [/head] _______________ [body] [embed SRC="http://www.site.com/filename.wav" autostart="True" hidden="true"] [/body] _______________ [p][embed src="/sound/cow.wav" name="cow" id="cow" hidden=true loop=false autostart=false mastersound] [img src="../images/gifs-images/cow.gif" border=0 alt="Cow" onmouseover="document.embeds[0].play()"] [/p] _______________ [embed src="/sound/cow.wav" name="cow" id="cow" hidden=true loop=false autostart=false mastersound] [img src="../images/gifs-images/cow.gif" border=0 alt="Cow" onmouseover="document.embeds[0].play()"] _______________ Here is a link that might be useful: Cow example in use

Photobucket and Tinypic are web hosting sites specifically for photos and videos. They provide the coding for inserting the photos/videos into various other web sites like the KT, blogs, etc. So, no, it's not "stealing bandwidth" from them - it's using them as they intend to be used. If you have a Photobucket account you see plenty of ads when you're in your free albums. If you have a paid-for Photobucket account, it's free of advertisements. You see plenty of ads when you're using Tinypic (see the third screen shot, above), too. Or are you asking if I'm "stealing bandwidth" when I create instructional documents at work? If so, please rest assured that I use no web hosting sites for my screen shots used in my instructional documents. I have a fully licensed copy of FullShot on my computer at work (and I have personally purchased a license for FullShot for my home computer, too, because I sometimes work from home and I use FullShot when I'm doing genealogy research and other stuff). I use FullShot to create the screen shots that I use in my instructional documents, and I simply save them (at home) to an appropriate folder and at work I save them to my space on a network drive. I work for the IT division and am a webmaster for the IT division's Intranet pages. In other words, I'm doing what I am paid to do.