I want my border to grow!! -

[kathk]

Can anyone help me? I'm a newbie! I have an image which I wish to use as a border for a webpage. However, I want it to be able to grow as I add content to the middle (with Dreamweaver?). I can't seem to make it work without the border seperating and becomeing extremely messy.
I hope I have explained myself clearly - if not, tell me, and I'll try again.

 

[boyfromoz]

Not real clear. Need to know whether the image was done in fireworks then exported into dreamweaver.

Give as much info as you can

 

[kathk]

Yes, the image was done in Fireworks - and yes it is exported into Dreamweaver.

 

[boyfromoz]

Aha. trouble.

Your border is actually saved in Fireworks like a grid, or cells in a table, rather than one image. If you can picture a table in say, Microsoft Word. When you type info in a table cell that is larger then the width of the cell, it will stretch... right? And all the cells on the right of it will move right

This is what is happening to your border image. You are not actually importing a single image into dreamweaver. Fireworks splits it up into pieces and drops each piece into adjoining table cells.

A few things you can try.

(1) Add your info in Fireworks? Easiest way to do it.

(2) Are you adding things like sound or named anchors in the? They will muck up the way your frame looks in dreamweaver, but they will still export correctly into Dreamweaver.

(3) Save your frame as an image, then use it as your background.

(4) This is a bit harder. Draw a large slice in the middle of your border. When your fireworks image is transported into Dreamweaver, this will result in a large cell for you to input info being created in the middle of the border. Make sure in your export options you choose nested table-no spaces.

When you open it in Dreamweaver, you will need to ensure you set the width of this cell to its current physical width. Try this. When you first import into Dreamweaver the width of this cell will have been set by Fireworks exporting a clear image into this cell. Go on, click ont it. There will be an image in the cell. Check the width of this image in properties, delete it, then set the table cell width to the width the image was.

Your table will still muck up if you go too wide, but this will at least give you an area to work in.

Fireworks is crap like this, every one I know on this forum complains about how after you export a fireworks iamge, that's about the last thing you can do with it.WHat it should have is an option that lets you stretch the cells in the exported fireworks tabletable proportionally, so when you add data to a cell in the fireworks table, everything stretches togethor, isntead of just one cell. This doesn't happen.

I'd go with option 1, its the easiest and most reliable.