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You are likely to need some cells that seem to have nothing in them - you can't just leave them empty, especially if there's any chance your page might ever be viewed in Netscape 4. One way is to put just one letter, or a dot (period) in the cell and colour it to match the background - not ideal though, especially if you're using css (cascading style sheets). |
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| Another way is to use a non-breaking space (option-space). Now this is worth upgrading to Golive 6 for if you haven't - select a table cell, look in the inspector, find the arrow in a circle and see this option: |  |
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Another good solution is use a transparent gif. These are easy to make in Photoshop, (new document, RGB mode, transparent background, size 32 x 32 pixels, export as gif), but you can download this one and use it if you wish. Of course, you can't see it, it's transparent, but if you point your mouse at the middle of the table on the right, you'll find an image in there called transp32.gif which you can download and use in your websites. Download is click-and-hold for Mac, right-click for Windows. It's 32 x 32 pixels, which makes it easier to manipulate than a smaller one, but you can resize it via the inspector to whatever size you need each time. |
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| For instance, you might want a narrow coloured divider - here I've put a transparent gif into a cell, then coloured the cell, then selected and resized the gif to 1 px high. The cell is also set to 1 pixel high - if you use spacing or padding in the table, though, you won't get such a narrow cell. |
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To reuse the graphic within a site, you can drag it onto the library tab of the Objects palette (pencil tab). Just drag it back out onto a page whenever you need it. Be careful though - if you fire up Golive and work on another site, the gif will still be on the Objects palette. Don't try and use it in another site - the actual image isn't stored in the palette, it's in your original website folder, all you have stored is a link to it, which will be wrong for another site. The best way round this is to copy the graphic into another website folder and immediately rename it. In the other site, store the one from that site on the pencil tab, and whenever you're not sure which is which, select it first and check the inspector for the name. That pencil tab is very handy, by the way, for images or text snippets or even entire tables with navigation links if you like - the links will be copied into your page with the object. That's what I've done for the logo bottom right of most of the pages in this site, together with its link to the home page. Huge tables will fit in there! Doesn't work for rollovers, though, and remember it's site-specific. |
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And that border? On the right is a 1 x 1 table with border and spacing of zero, padding of 5, coloured light yellow. Inside it is another table, coloured grey (you need to colour it or the yellow will show through.) Don't use spacing unless you want a checkerboard effect, the yellow will show through the spaces. |
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