Metropol

I would have put this in the Myspace thread but thought it would reach a wider audience, here.

Lee Seaman made a fab swf animation today for my profile, with spoof screen grabs from news channels etc. Unfortunately because the tables on my profile are transparent, when the "TV" is set as transparent instead of having a nasty white border, the whole thing goes transparent too.

Does anyone know a way around this? Click my signature to have a look. Help would be greatly appreciated as we both have given up. I am on Safari which may help.

i'd personally turn off the transparancy effect on your profile completely - it must be unusable on a pc and slow to redraw on a pc more than a couple of years old.

the flash thing is a great idea though - it did make me laff having a look through your uni-antics.

What's really sad is that in most pictures, we're "dancing", although your forgiven for thinking otherwise!

Once again Lee has helped me out, and instead of scripting in the transparency affect in HTML/CSS, he's made a PNG background, slightly transparent, to use instead.

What's weird though is that some tables on my profile adopt this background, and others remain non-transparent.

Here's the style script, if anyone with much better knowledge could maybe have a look at where I'm going wrong?

<style type="text/css">
.r{}
table, tr, td { background-color:transparent; border:none; border-width:0;}
body {
background-image:url('http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/9430 ... old9mx.jpg');
border-color:FFFFFF;
border-width:0px ;
border-style: solid;

}


}

.r{}
table table { border: 0px }
table table table table{border:0px}
table table table {
padding: 2;
border-style:dotted;
border-width:1px;
border-color:EEFF22;
background-image:url('http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upl ... les/bg.png');

}

.r{}
table, tr, td, li, p, div { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; }
.btext { font-family:Georgia; color:FFFFFF; font-size:22px; font-weight:bold; }
.blacktext10 { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; }
.blacktext12 { font-family:Georgia; line-height: 75px; color:FFFFFF; font-size:16px; font-weight:bold; background-image:url("http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upl ... ndedbg.jpg"); width:435px; height:75px; display:block !important; }
.lightbluetext8 { font-family:Arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; font-weight:bold; }
.orangetext15 { font-family:Georgia; color:FFFFFF; font-size:22px; letter-spacing: -1px; }
.redtext { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; }
.redbtext { font-family:Georgia; color:FFFFFF; font-size:22px; font-weight:bold; }
.text { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; }
.whitetext12 { font-family:Georgia; color:000000; font-size:0px; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing: -200px; }


a:active, a:visited, a:link { font-family:arial; color:FFEE22; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }
a:hover { font-family:arial; color:FFEE22; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }
a:ProfileMusic { font-family:arial; color:FFEE22; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }
a.navbar:active, a.navbar:visited, a.navbar:link { font-family:arial; color:FFEE22; }
a.navbar:hover { font-family:arial; color:FFEE22; }
a.redlink:active, a.redlink:visited, a.redlink:link { font-family:arial; color:FFEE22; font-size:11px; }
a.redlink:hover { font-family:arial; color:FFEE22; font-size:11px; }

a.searchlinkSmall { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }
a.searchlinkSmall:link { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }
a.searchlinkSmall:active { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }
a.searchlinkSmall:visited { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }
a.searchlinkSmall:hover { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }




a.navbar { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }
a.navbar:link { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }
a.navbar:active { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }
a.navbar:visited { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }
a.navbar:hover { font-family:arial; color:FFFFFF; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }



.nametext { font-family:arial; color:FFEE22; font-size:60px; font-weight:bold;
letter-spacing: -8px; }


</style>

rts wrote:He's made a PNG background, slightly transparent, to use instead.

And totally unsupported by Internet Explorer 6 and below; 95% of the internet won't see it.

Well I did not know that Chris, but thanks for informing me.

I did mention to Row that some browsers are a bit awkward with transparent PNGs. Well, a browser.

Sorry Lee, you are right. Been in a forgetful mood lately. Thank God for Chris though. Without him I think my life would crumble.

Here's the solution:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/

Cheers.

It was still fucking about so I got rid of the filter/transparent png all together and made all the tables fully transparent, and darkened the background so white text is still visible.