sorry i had to abbreviate the topic title to get it to fit.

ANYWAYS. basically ive been skinning for a while now, and im loving it. BUT ive come across my first issue out of all my skins thus far. Just using fireworks, i made a background image that includes a faux navigation, if you will. its links to the xanga homepage, etc etc etc, but its not actually a toolbar - its just part of the image. Ive been using this technique for a while. I simply used image mapper to map those parts of the image. interestingly, though, i can only click on those areas when the left margin of the main text body of my blog is set at 150 pixels or more, like so :



HOWEVER, in order for everything to look right, i need it to look like this: (Remember, the differences between these 2 is in the left margin.)



when i enter it in like that, the text moves to the correct spot, but my navigational links are completely null and void. Im wondering if there is a way around this. if it helps, the basic image for the skin is here....

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this is my test xanga - you can see the problem.
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as another interesting note, the top links (myspace, facebook, aim) , and the "osnapiheartthat2" link on the alarm clock (that links back to my main page) work just fine.

here is all of my coding, just in case.



THANKS!

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IMAGE MAPPING TROUBLESHOOTING
1. Make sure the USEMAP part of your image code matches the NAME of your map.
ex. -> <map name="rawr"> means USEMAP="#rawr"
2. Make sure your blog's div layer isn't covering up your image map.
ex. -> Div is 415px wide and image is 400px wide. Fix the div layer in that case.
3. Make sure that there's no spaces in your map name.
ex. -> "rawr map" must become "rawr_map" or "rawrmap" or something of that nature.
4. Make sure you have height&width defined. The map doesn't know where to start/stop otherwise.
ex. -> <img src="url" border=0 usemap="#imgmap"> becomes something like <img src="url" border=0 usemap="#imgmap" width="400px" height="600px">

Check to see if any of those apply to you.

yeah, the question mark was in a "can anyone help me" sense, not a "is that what its called" sense. but yeah lol doesnt matter. yeah, all of those things are fine, i dont have any of those problems. not sure what the problem is.

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