Web Design Help? Stuck!!
 

I am having a hard time trying to get this to work. I am in a process of building a web site using Dream weaver. The customer gave me photoshop files with layers of what they want the site to look like. One of the files he has is a layer that extends past the background image that he wants to stay stationary. He wants that layer to move up and down when the user scrolls the mouse wheel. Basically the layer is a set of images about 15 of them that are right on top of each other. This layer is on top of the main image that I am going to use as the background. The customer used text and on the back ground image that I am just gonna use hotspots as the links of the site. I thought of maybe using apDivs or some type of table or frame but I just can't get it to work. If you need more information please let me know. I prob did a bad job of explaining it.

Well there's your problem. Kidding. Real men code by hand, is all I'm saying.

Float your scrolling content in an iFrame and position it with CSS. Just know that you can't click THROUGH the iframe to get to hotspots in the layer underneath.

When I was told that back in... 98' I started coding in Textpad. Did that for years til I found a night full-featured editor to code by hand. Learn to code from the bottom and it makes the top so much easier to control.

I got nothing to add tho, sorry.

I write all my web pages in NoteBook, a plain text editor. I've got maybe 80 pages in it now, but had more earlier. I just don't like dedicate web page editors as they make the code hard to read and enclude scripts where I don't know what's going one and have lost control of my own page.

All my web pages call a header script at the beginning and a footer script at the end. The footer just ends the page, but the header is interesting. It sets the page color scheme, writes a small table in the upper right with my picture (naturally; it liiks to a full sized image), a link to my home page, a link to my eMail program online, and a link to send an eMail back to me. I fill in that subject line with the title of the page so I know what someone was looking at when they write me.

The rest of the page can be pretty streaight forward. If I tire of the background image, I change it once in the header script, and instantly all pages across my website call the new header and show the new background. It is the same with fonts and stuff. I wrote header script years ago, maybe ten, so I would have to go back and learn it again to really make big changes. But it's functional for what I need, and having written it in NotePad it's easy to read and change.