|Thanks for taking the time to look John and yes, if it were down to me it wouldnt be a problem. The issue is that when one hands over a site to the client with the best will in the world, unless you make it as *unbreakable* as possible they will break it...their job isnt to resize/crop images and they will forget everything and just *do it* and inevitabnly forget how to do ebverything *properly* - so by trying to do it the way I am gives my cms system a certain amont of leeway to do it the right way whilst at the samne time accommodating clients who arent web designers or developers :S

I now see why a background image was used: to give control over variously proportioned images. It seems possible to replace the picture link suggested in my last post with a square, transparent button link which has a picture as its background, and hopefully this might be a stepping stone to some solution to the problem.

To show roughly (very roughly) what I mean, I attach an RSD file. Again the txt suffix should be changed to rsd.

To make the button square I removed the text from the button, and set all the padding boxes to 150px. One would adjust that figure as appropriate for each break point.

One can make the background image of whatever proportions fit in the square box without distortion by setting both Position boxes to 'Center', Repeat to 'No-Repeat', and Size to 'Contain'

Frank

many thanks Frank. Have been working on it this afternoon myself as well and although where you are using the button link element, I have been using the picture link element with much the same effect and having adjusted various heights along the way.

I *think* I am pretty much there what with your direction as well so a huge thank you to you if you want to see it in *action* heres a link to e a very unfinished site: http://clients.motley.site/equicraft/index.php

again, my thanks for all your help and input

Jamie

Jamie, it's great to see that you've got it sorted, and it's certainly caused me to learn a fair bit about RSD along the way.

Frank

Its a cracking bit of software but its only as good as what you know can be done with it...always good to have an upward learning curve

thanks

Jamie