mapped links dontwork depnding on whre main txt is Options

[osnapiheartthat2]

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 :

<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --><br /><div style="<br />overflow: auto;<br />width: 710px;<br />height: 600px;<br />margin-top: -775px;<br />margin-left: 150px;"><br /><!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->

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.)

<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --><br /><div style="<br />overflow: auto;<br />width: 710px;<br />height: 600px;<br />margin-top: -775px;<br />margin-left: -50px;"><br /><br /><!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->

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.

<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --><br /><MAP NAME='imgmap'><br /><AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='16,171,118,207' HREF='http://www.xanga.com'>75<br /><AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='15,245,118,283' HREF='http://www.xanga.com/private/home.aspx'><br /><AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='6,319,128,348' HREF='http://www.xanga.com/Private/SubscribeTo.aspx?user=osnapiheartthat2'><br /><AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='22,388,110,429' HREF='http://edit.xanga.com/claf.aspx'><br /><AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='23,463,109,500' HREF='http://www.xanga.com/Private/subs.aspx'><br /><AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='4,547,128,584' HREF='http://www.xanga.com/logout.aspx'><br /><AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='158,5,256,24' HREF='http://www.myspace.com/osnapiheartthat2'><br /><AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='418,3,462,21' HREF='aim:goim?screenname=osnapiheartthat2'><br /><AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='283,2,394,22' HREF='http://hs.facebook.com/p.php?id=1122600091&l=b052734aa1'><br /><AREA SHAPE='rect' COORDS='362,725,669,759' HREF='http://www.xanga.com/osnapiheartthat2'><br /></MAP><br /><br /><IMG SRC='http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/7564/alarm7of.jpg' border=0 width=800 height=800 USEMAP='#imgmap'> <br /><br /><div style="<br />overflow: auto;<br />width: 710px;<br />height: 600px;<br />margin-top: -775px;<br />margin-left: -75px;"><br /><br /><!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->

THANKS!

[osnapiheartthat2]

up?

[talcumpowder]

Bump. It's called a bump.
[ http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=61624 ]

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.

[osnapiheartthat2]

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.

[osnapiheartthat2]

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