Making a graphic hide some text

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Pye

At www.pyechamberlayne.com I would like to have little seasonal pictures -- like the bluebird that's there now -- obscure a few letters of the phrase "Chamberlayne Times" on what, in a newspaper, would be called the masthead

A problem is that the "picture properties" dialog box lists only three types of wrapping: none, left and right

I think it's fun and appealing to super-impose pictures on titles, the way Google does on red-letter days like Millard Fillmore's birthday or the date of the discovery of DNA or the quark

Pye
 
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Tom Pepper Willett

You would need to create it as an image in your image editor, such as
Photopaint, etc.
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Pye said:
At www.pyechamberlayne.com I would like to have little seasonal
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pictures -- like the bluebird that's there now -- obscure a few letters of
the phrase "Chamberlayne Times" on what, in a newspaper, would be called the
masthead.
A problem is that the "picture properties" dialog box lists only three
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types of wrapping: none, left and right.
I think it's fun and appealing to super-impose pictures on titles, the way
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Google does on red-letter days like Millard Fillmore's birthday or the date
of the discovery of DNA or the quark.
 
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Tom Pepper Willett

Adding to what Crash has said:

Not all browsers support a cell background image. And, you would have to be
very, very careful about setting the size of the cell in order to keep the
background from tiling.
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There's several ways of doing this.

One is to create a image out of Chamberlayne Times (which you should do
anyway) and make your blue bird part of the image.

Second is to make image of Chamberlayne Times and make it the background of
a table cell. Then in same cell you can place the bluebird image (as long as
you have it as a transparent .gif).

I'm sure there are several more sophisitcated ways to do this but these
would be the simplest..I think.

BTW you should optimize your images, even on vdsl it takes an eternity to
load you home page.

hth

rob
"Pye" <pye(removethispleasebeforewritingmeoriwontgetit)@pyechamberlayne.com>
wrote in message | At www.pyechamberlayne.com I would like to have little seasonal
pictures -- like the bluebird that's there now -- obscure a few letters of
the phrase "Chamberlayne Times" on what, in a newspaper, would be called the
masthead.
|
| A problem is that the "picture properties" dialog box lists only three
types of wrapping: none, left and right.
|
| I think it's fun and appealing to super-impose pictures on titles, the way
Google does on red-letter days like Millard Fillmore's birthday or the date
of the discovery of DNA or the quark.
|
| Pye
 
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Tom Pepper Willett

www.google.com is a good place to start.
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I need a compatibility chart ;-)


| Adding to what Crash has said:
|
| Not all browsers support a cell background image. And, you would have to
be
| very, very careful about setting the size of the cell in order to keep the
| background from tiling.
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| | There's several ways of doing this.
|
| One is to create a image out of Chamberlayne Times (which you should do
| anyway) and make your blue bird part of the image.
|
| Second is to make image of Chamberlayne Times and make it the background
of
| a table cell. Then in same cell you can place the bluebird image (as long
as
| you have it as a transparent .gif).
|
| I'm sure there are several more sophisitcated ways to do this but these
| would be the simplest..I think.
|
| BTW you should optimize your images, even on vdsl it takes an eternity to
| load you home page.
|
| hth
|
| rob
| "Pye"
<pye(removethispleasebeforewritingmeoriwontgetit)@pyechamberlayne.com>
| wrote in message
| | At www.pyechamberlayne.com I would like to have little seasonal
| pictures -- like the bluebird that's there now -- obscure a few letters of
| the phrase "Chamberlayne Times" on what, in a newspaper, would be called
the
| masthead.
| |
| | A problem is that the "picture properties" dialog box lists only three
| types of wrapping: none, left and right.
| |
| | I think it's fun and appealing to super-impose pictures on titles, the
way
| Google does on red-letter days like Millard Fillmore's birthday or the
date
| of the discovery of DNA or the quark.
| |
| | Pye
|
|
 
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Jon Spivey

You should be able to stop the background image from tiling, either in a
div or table cell. Something like
<style type="text/css">
#theDiv{
width:200px;
background: #fff url(back.gif) center no-repeat
}
<div id="theDiv"><img src="bird.gif"></div>

You could position the background image and the bird exactly where you
wanted it this way - doesn't have to be centered. I believe NN4 would get
the position wrong and stick the background top left, which isn't too bad,
every other 4+ browser should be fine with it
 
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Stefan B Rusynko

Or
http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/browser_support/index.html




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| | I need a compatibility chart ;-)
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|
| | | Adding to what Crash has said:
| |
| | Not all browsers support a cell background image. And, you would have to
| be
| | very, very careful about setting the size of the cell in order to keep the
| | background from tiling.
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