hi,

I am coming from a "tables manage layout" background - I have noticed sites
that are using css to manage layout -can anyone recommend a web guide on how
to do this ? I have Macromedia studio so have all the tools.... just not the
know how.

David

__/ [David Cleland] on Monday 13 February 2006 18:36 \__

Hi David,

For standards-based Web design, this WYSIWYG paradigm might not be most
suitable. Bloatware can usually handle stylesheets, but its page previews
are then unhelpful and the whole paradigm is susceptible to questioning.

I suggest you look at books from some of the authorities in the field, e.g.
Eric Meyer, David Shea, and Jeff Zeldman. You need only ascribe meaningful
semantic structure to pertinent elements by altering the existing markup and
'cleaning up'. You can then control layour from peripheral CSS files. If you
ever want your sites to evolve smoothly and fit PDA's, for example, it is
the only way to go.

Hope it helps,

Roy

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But does anybody here have a reccomendable url as opposed to a book?
I am in the exact same situation as David.

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Try these:

http://glish.com/css/
http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/layoutomatic.php
http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tut...son/boxes.html
http://www.mako4css.com/Tutorial.htm
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/article...v/199802b.html
http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/

I've found CSS hard to get right - I now develop for Firefox and then adjust
to get round IE6's numerous bugs.
See:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles.html

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__/ [Del] on Wednesday 15 February 2006 13:49 \__


I personally believe that practical examples, which one can inherit and
interact with, are better. CSSZenGarden gives a fundamental model of a page
and then binds to it a variety of stylesheets, from which one can learn
(e.g. by viewing the source).

Another decent proportion of Web developers, however, prefer books, which in
some sense is the reverse approach: learn, then create (as opposed to "look
what was created and learn from it").


__/ [Philip Herlihy] on Wednesday 15 February 2006 15:49 \__

I'll just add:

http://csszengarden.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

The latter is not necessarily good (in fact, many would criticise both
URL's), but that's where I looked several years ago.