[WEB4LIB] Graphics problem

[Thomas Dowling]

>
> I created a series of navigational buttons that appear at the top and
> bottom of most of the pages on my library's home page
> (<http://library.webster.edu>).  An example is the database page
> (<http://library.webster.edu/database.html>).  Seemingly
> overnight (perhaps
> after a full moon?), the graphics began to look like they were slightly
> askew...

A couple of observations.

First, there is an unclosed <A HREF...> at the beginning of the icon bar
on some or all of your pages.  This might affect a browser's display.

Second, for better or for worse, the convention for button images is
increasingly to a a border=0 attribute to the IMG tag.

Third, your databases page has a FORM tag outside the BODY tag.  This
probably doesn't affect the display, but could well affect how or whether
the form functions.  (The only inputs I can see on your pages are
JavaScript-only, which means that I, for one, can't use them since I
usually browse with JavaScript turned off.)

I recommend first that you validate your markup and second that you try,
e.g.:

<a href=".."><img src="smlogohm.gif" alt="[Eden-Webster Library home
page]"
  border="0"></a>
<a href="../search/search.html"><img src="smsrch.gif" alt="[SiteSearch]"
  border="0"></a>...



Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu