[sailor41]

Hi,

Here is the site-
http://islandgeographic.com/

At first I-
colored the body background black
made a one cell table with a jpg non tiled background image
used a png with transparancy for the text in the table.

This-
makes the background image easily replacable
makes the text crisp
keeps the file as small as possable

But-
the background image blinks and dissapears in IE 5.5 (win)
works fine in Safari and IE5.2 (mac)

What is the best way to-
have a crisp small image?
crisp small text over image?
keep compatability with older browsers?


Thanks-Brad

[clam2000]

if you're going with images for everything, just make it all one picture

then you can either use an image map, or split it into little pieces.

since you've got a jpeg background, putting the text into it won't increase the file size, the only downside is that you'll have to resave it whenever you want to change it.

--Will

[sailor41]

Thanks clam,
It seems the text in a jpeg is soft.
I was hoping to have crisper text (gif or png). For now it is all jpeg.

I am looking into css, maybe that will work in that confoundit ie 5-6 for windows.

THX-B