curved corners problem

[bruno89]

iv just downloaded dreamweaver 8 and im trying to make curved corners BUT! i hace a big problem it wont work they way im doing it so i dont know what im doin rong. can any 1 tell me

http://www.freewebs.com/gggggaaaaa/ check it out ull see

[Legacy_Staff]

Hey, Bruno.

The issue isn't with your code, it's with your image.
Hence I've re-assigned your thread to the graphics section.

Couple of things;

You'd be better off working with bitmaps but converting the finished image to either jpg or gif to reduce the file sizes.

Have you tried using the 'anti-alias' setting in your image software? This should fix it. If it doesn't, please advise which application, and tools within the app., you are using.

[edit: Incidentally it is incredibly difficult to render a curve using little square blocks (pixels) and, all things considered, those aren't nearly as bad as many I've seen).]

[bruno89]

ok for them i used paint but iv made some gif images in icon lover with the anti what ever it was ill try these then get bak to u....

[bruno89]

didn't work.. are you sure its not the coding?

[Legacy_Staff]

How can it be the code, when it's yer bitmap images that don't look curved?

Dreamweaver is a web page / site building programme.
The square image you posted is made up of bitmap images (Top, bottom, sides and corners).
It's the corner parts of these that you want to curve smoothly.

"Paint" isn't the world's greatest image creation application.
This may be the problem (I don't use it so I'm not sure on this).

[bruno89]

nooooooooooooooo theres spaces inbetween the corners and the rest of it ... i wana get rid of them! not make the corners look more curved

[Legacy_Staff]

Originally Posted by bruno89

nooooooooooooooo theres spaces inbetween the corners and the rest of it ... i wana get rid of them! not make the corners look more curved

Originally Posted by bruno89

iv just downloaded dreamweaver 8 and im trying to make curved corners BUT! i hace a big problem it wont work they way im doing it so i dont know what im doin rong. can any 1 tell me

http://www.freewebs.com/gggggaaaaa/ check it out ull see

Oh.
lol

Not sure, but the problem may be due to using tables to lay everything out.
Instead try doing it by using HTML and CSS.
http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.csszengarden.com/

[bruno89]

lol i thought if i showed you you would get what i ment but i spose i should have sed " theres big gaps " lol anyway no hard feelins every 1 gets stuff rong lol

[Legacy_Staff]

[Legacy_Staff]

That was me by the way... couldn't remember my password earlier

[Antwan]

cant you put them in a table with no borders and a background fill, no padding or spacing and align each element appropriately i.e. top ones aligned to the bottom of the cell etc ?

[Legacy_Staff]

If you start doing that, you're leaving yourself open later for all sorts of hassles with IE / Firefox discrepencies.
Best to do it in CSS and leave tables alone.

I used to do it myself and am biting the bullet to try and overcome the problem by using CSS too.

[Antwan]

Yeah css is definitely best but it's just because he had used all seperate images that i thought he was going to use tables. Try Niftycubes:

http://www.html.it/articoli/niftycube/index.html

[Legacy_Staff]

I think what he wants' to do is have an expanding box using those images.
He's on the right track but he needs to do it in CSS rather than tables (which will fix the container to a set size).

http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups...csslayout.hcsp

[bruno89]

lol iv found a way around it i used each image ad a background instead of just usin img src bla bla bla so thats what 1 thing in about a year if figured out HAHA im stupid and its probably goin aintst all the w3 rubbish but oh well it works

[karloff]

for future ref this might be useful

http://www.neuroticweb.com/recursos/css-rounded-box/

[moojoo]

Too bad CSS 3 isn't widely accpted yet. it has corner-radius: woot! and the css 3 multi column thing is uber leet too. ::Sigh::

[Legacy_Staff]

Yer kiddin Mooj... I only just found CSS!
Now there's a CSS3, and I missed out completely on CSS2?

*sighs

[moojoo]

You missed nothing. CSS3 won't be widely enough supported for years. but the column thing is handy.. You can actually specify the height, width, spacing etc in CSS and how many columns the div needs to wrap to. Think about it, long content, no more floating divs heh.

[Legacy_Staff]

*phew!