Just purchased Cheryl's book over the weekend. First off, I love it. Finally a computer book that can be understood. Secondly, I'm on page about 108 and it's talking about trying to use tables for data as opposed to creating images in a photo editing program (like I used Adboe CS2), cutting it up, and pasting in the various merged cells (piecing the image together) that bring the image BACK together. This is actually how I was JUST taught at my new job to create visually stimulating websites.

When I first tried doing some website on my own, I used to make the background one BIG image, which of course took forever to download (showing most of the sites content before the background would ever be viewed.

 So my question is, what is the proper way to break down large 'brochure' type images and put it on a website without using the tables as 'cut & paste' image reconstruction, and without having a long download time?

 Thanks.

-Maria

Maria,

 Thank you for the compliment. Over the next couple of chapters you will lean about CSS. That is how you create your page layout. As with tables you will have background images but you are taking your presentation out of your html and putting it in a separate cacheable page.

After you read and work those the (exercises in Chapters 5-9 post back with your questions.

 Btw, make sure you get the updated Chapter 3 files from http://foundationsofexpressionweb.com/exercises/chapter03/default.aspx