How do you do this type of border??

I'm just dying for it...

http://www.sillium.org

I'm talking about the border that looks like everything is selected. Does anyone know how to make the dotted border? Please tell me if you do.

Thanks for the help. :D

Try using a brush size set at 1x1 pix and set the spacing to 25%.

Place one dot by just clicking, then hold down your shift key to where you want your last dot to end. Mind you this method works best with straight lines.

Since you are wanting to make a boarder all the way around, just set up some guides to follow so your dotted lines come out straight and more exact.

Hope that helps.

Make a new pattern 2 pixels wide. Make the left one filled with your desired color, and make the next one transparent or the color you want the gap to be (don't know if transparent will work).

Save that as a pattern, (I can't remember how to do that right now)

Then, with your image cropped completely, then go to your blending options-->Stroke-->Pattern-->Choose the pattern you just made.

That'd be the easiest way to do it, then when you wanted to use it again, it'll be there waiting for you.

I'm pretty sure you can do that with CSS actually. Though I don't know the specific code. Probably worth investigating further though.

yeah, just put this in a CSS property tag, and apply it to the table. I think it should work. Haven't actually tried it. But in theory anyway. If you can't get it to work, I'll mess with it and give you the final code. Let me know.

border: dotted black 2px;

(where 2 is the size of dot you want)

i just made a table and sized it 1 pixel. then an image that is 2x2pixel. at 1|1 pixel i have put a white pixel there. and then set the pixel as background of the border.

Just realized something.

If you have FrontPage, then when you choose the border style, you can choose it to be dotted like that.

matt, how would I go about doing that in FrontPage 2000? I took a look at the table prop and theirs nothing their about the border style.

You can use CSS to make a dotted border, though that's not what he did.

< html >
< head >

< style >
table.dotb { border-style: dotted; border-width: 2px; color: white }
< /style >

< /head >
< body bgcolor=black >

< table class='dotb' >

< tr >< td >content< /td >< /tr >
< /table >
< /body >
< /html >

However, unlike above, what Florian did was build a table around his content, with the first row being the line on the top, 1 pixel high. He put in corner td's as well, 1px by 1px. Then he put in td's around the middle section, and 3 more at the bottom. The result is the 1 pixel border you see. It *was* done with images. I also believe that he put a background image of the dots in the said td's, so as to make them always have dots (regardless of size in any direction), rather than making specially sized lines for each piece of the page. If he didn't do that, he should have. :D To make this background image, just make a 2x2 image called 'bg.gif' in photoshop and color the pixels in this design

BW
WB

where B means black pixel and W means white pixel. Then make each border line, write < TD background='bg.gif' width=1 height=20 >. Obviously, you can/should change the width and height tags to suit your needs. It's a fairly complicated technique, so beginners are better off with the easier CSS technique above.

Hope this helps. ;)

--Tim A.

Venom.

Choose your cell.

Right-Click

Cell Properties

Click that button on the bottom left-hand corner (I don't have it in front of me, so I can't remember what it says, maybe "Format")

Go to Border

There you go, feel free to play as you will. Dotted, dashed, however you want it.