image place holders from image ready?

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Peter_Goldfield
Mar 5, 2004
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Sorry for cross posting – not much activity on Image Ready Forum – can anyone help…

I’ve created "menu’s" in image ready, for instance: ( http://www.duckspool.com/goldfield/menus/Metaphysics/metaphy sics.html) optimised elements, selected any slices that don’t contain pictures and changed them to "no image"

But when I’ve imported the pages into FrontPage and published to my site, I still (sometimes) get little redx’s – image placeholders where I thought they weren’t (sorry for the garbled English)
I’ve tried deleting what appear to be blank images from the generated table in FP, but it seems a bit unwieldy – and sometimes they seem to come back!! Should I be doing something else in IR?
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Mac_McDougald
Mar 5, 2004
I glanced at:
http://www.duckspool.com/goldfield/shows/afss/artforsciences ake.html Watched it load, then looked at code.
Your placeholders are the "spacer.gif" files, which have width/height specified in the HTML.

You can remove those parameters and generally browsers won’t show the empty placeholders as page loads (with the disadvantage that text won’t load until all images do).

Better is to simply use different HTML calls to achieve same effect. There is nothing on this page that a simple table with either cellpadding, non breaking spaces, or just table with specifed width couldn’t do as well, without use of transparent spacer files at all.

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Peter_Goldfield
Mar 6, 2004
Thanks for your reply Mac,
I’m creating the whole page in Photoshop/Imageready, optimising words as gif’s, pictures as jpg then importing optimised html file into Frontpage. The problem is in ImageReady I think, slices are I’m afraid very new to me – any help the procedure to eliminate "spacer.gif’s" would be much appreciated…
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Mac_McDougald
Mar 6, 2004
Sliced images are absurd, unless you are putting together many exact pieces of a discrete larger image. Even then, there is little (if any) download speed to be gained. In your case, since you have gaps between different discrete images, slicing is NOT your best solution by a long shot. Also, never use "pictures" of text when real text will do.

Learn a little basic HTML, or use a WYSIWYG HTML editor. ImageReady is not really your friend for web design except for a few specialized functions, like slicing, rollovers, image maps.

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