Well, I caved and decided that at least my sidebar on the webpage I’m working on is going to be absolutely sized for this iteration of it’s layout and style.
That is OK, it is working out super well, cuz I made a single image to do all the parts of the backdrop I wanted. Then I just chunked that image up into three smaller images, and it works great.
So now instead of a small 35px x 10 px image tiled along the side of something, I have a 35px x 210 px image tiled with no background color set. Then, instead of floating a corner image into position, and tiling an image horizontally along the bottom, I have a single bottom image to cap this sidebar that includes the corner part.
Pretty sweet actually, and things line up much better since I used a single image as the source image for the smaller images. Now, I must just re-work the header image to match the boarders, and get it to look right in IE.
Also, I got sunburnt on my upper arms. I’ve decided to let my upper arms / shoulders just go to the skin cancer. I’m really doomed, since I can’t go outside without a shirt, or without a long sleeved shirt for that matter, for any length of time w/o burning something. So I’ve given up and decided that sleeveless shirts must be worn, to get the upper arms and shoulders used to burning (or maybe even tanned), so that when I go swimming w/o a shirt and burn the hell out of my back and stomach / chest area, I can at least sleep on my side w/o being in severe pain. Plus, it doesn’t hurt that bad to burn my shoulders and arms…I don’t know why, but that part reacts much better to lotion than my back and chest do.