[thelist] Help with creating a drop shadow effect

Patrick Forsythe Jr. fuse at toto.net
Tue Dec 11 11:11:39 CST 2001


I have used that technique before I was wondering if there was a way I 
could do it with out using that method.  I would like to keep as few images 
as possible.



At 11:04 AM 12/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Slice your image like a tic tac toe board, the middle section being the 
>largest where you will put your text.
>
>Make a table with everything set to zero and no width attribute.
>
>Put the nw, ne, se and sw images in the appropriate td cells.
>
>Put spacer gifs in the remaining edge cells and bake their background 
>images your n, e, s and west images.
>
>Type in the middle cell.
>
>>I have a potential site design idea. 
>>http://www.mentalychallenged.com/design121101.png I was wondering if 
>>there was a way to create that drop shadow effect with out just slicing 
>>the image and inserting my text into it. I f any one could advise I would 
>>greatly appreciate it.
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