Image Placement

[verynewtothis]

Is there a way to place images freely throughout a webpage in dreamweaver?? I'm making a site for a friend [it's kind of a girly site] and I thought it would be cool to have clouds here and there that serve as links... Problem is, I don't want them exactly centered, to the right, or left... how can I go about fixing this??? I'm using dreamweaver 8 on an iMac running Leopard.

[ryanbutler]

Can you be a bit more specific as to what you're trying to do? Maybe an example page?

[verynewtothis]

I photoshopped this picture to see if that could help you visualize what I mean. Here's the link:

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s29/macboy9110/notaligned.jpg

[ryanbutler]

Your best bet then is to probably absolutely position the images. Create a style sheet, and make two ID's and position them to the right of the screen.

[Nerys]

Slightly off topic but the closest I could find. I desperately need some help. I upgraded to Dreamweaver 8 and am having a very big problem. I run a semi live picture so for a rocketry event. I dump a large quantity of images into a webpage. Dreamweaver i NOT behaving. First it pops up this information window FOR EACH image I drop (I drop sometime DOZENS of image at a shot HUNDREDS in a session! I do not want to ever see this window pop up how do I get rid of it permanently? (the window is image tag accessibility options) I figured out this part. When that window pops up there is an accessibility options link I clicked that and was able to turn that crap off :-) hehe

Second it will NOT insert the image where I drop them it insists on putting ALL the image (whether I drop 1 or many) at the very top of the page about all the code that is already in place.

One picture is one thing but it takes an insane amount of time to move 30-40-50 images into the proper location.

This used to be very simple in dreamweaver. Highlight a bunch of images Drag them into dreamweaver and DROP them when the cursor indicates where I want them to appear.

Suggestions?

Here i a screenie showing the problem IT WILL let me move the image into the proper place once its in weaver but thi becomes a big problem with a drop 50 image here and it places ALL of them up top. It adds a tremendous amount of time for me to highlight all of them and MOVE them into the proper location.

http://www.nerys.com/stuff/imageproblem.jpg

Any help would be greatly appreciated.!

OK the problem is even worse.It seems it will not even LET me drop more than one image. If I drop a selection of images it only places the LAST image and off course at the top of the page.

I am in deep crap if I can not fix this. I will literally upload THOUSANDS of images over the next 10 days. it going to take literally hours each night if I have to drap and drop EACH image one at a time AND move them into the right position on the page one at a time. I am praying I am just missing a "setting" somewhere to fix this.

Help!!

[eCat]

Nerys,

Rather than "hijacking" someone else's thread, you should post a new thread.

Verynewtothis,

I agree with Ryan that you should use CSS. You could also use tables, but it wouldn't appear as random (and they're a bit outdated as design tools).

eCat

[Nerys]

I have no idea how to do CSS. Saw no point for such a simple site anyway. I found out what the problem was. Wrong version of Dreamweaver. I went back to MX 2004 and its behaving as it should again.

Why macromedia would make the new version behave so silly is beyond me for such a simple operation.

Doing this site is a massive undertaking. I do it because I like it and people enjoy it. I do not want more complex :-)

Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly though. I was concerned over double posting (people can get mad about that :-) so I left the post here since it was about image placement.

[saus]

Maybe I am off here but if you simply want to place images anywhere on a page it would seem that a floating div with absolute positioning would work easily. Here is a snippet that I know works. Just put it in your content, click on it in the design view and you can drag it using the upper left hand corner handle anywhere you like.

<div id="Layer1" style="position:absolute; width:200px; height:179px; z-index:12; left: 377px; top: 1013px;"><img src="images/some-picture.gif" name="Image1" width="240" height="180" border="0"> </div>

[Nerys]

Sorry wrong spot :-)