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I've spent the last few days teaching myself CSS, and I have to say I find it much more more intuitive and powerful then HTML. I guess this is the point. Anyway I've knocked up the skeleton of my website in about half the time it would have taken me in HTML (unless I used Dreamweaver of course:). Oh, and I should thank Tyla for posting those CSS links in another thread because the three column thing was doing my head in until I read those guidelines.
The only real problem I've had with CSS is getting the same results in IE and Mozilla. After a lot of experimentation I've ironed out the worst of the bugs, but I have one niggle left: the menu headings in my sidebar varying in size and knocking the headings out of alignment.
The page is at www.kernel.dsl.pipex.com/problem.htm
It's not exactly a site breaker, but it still bugs me. Any suggestions gratefully received.
The only real problem I've had with CSS is getting the same results in IE and Mozilla. After a lot of experimentation I've ironed out the worst of the bugs, but I have one niggle left: the menu headings in my sidebar varying in size and knocking the headings out of alignment.
The page is at www.kernel.dsl.pipex.com/problem.htm
It's not exactly a site breaker, but it still bugs me. Any suggestions gratefully received.
Tyla wrote:
> This is my latest demo site, heavy CSS, AND IT WONT WRK IN ANYTHING
> under IE5.5, NS6.22 and Moz 1.2, but that decision was made for
> technical reasons.
Moz 1.2 was withdrawn, Moz 1.2.1 is what it's all about today!
Come on Grandad, get with the times :D
> This is my latest demo site, heavy CSS, AND IT WONT WRK IN ANYTHING
> under IE5.5, NS6.22 and Moz 1.2, but that decision was made for
> technical reasons.
Moz 1.2 was withdrawn, Moz 1.2.1 is what it's all about today!
Come on Grandad, get with the times :D
Oooh, that's very swish. And as a history student it will be very useful to me when it goes live :)
I'll have a proper look at the source and play around with TopStyle tomorrow when I'm a bit less tired. At the moment the solution (for which read cop-out) I'm leaning towards is using gifs in place of text: there will only be seven or eight of them in the whole site, which shouldn't be too bad. Cheers for the advice.
I'll have a proper look at the source and play around with TopStyle tomorrow when I'm a bit less tired. At the moment the solution (for which read cop-out) I'm leaning towards is using gifs in place of text: there will only be seven or eight of them in the whole site, which shouldn't be too bad. Cheers for the advice.
Ah ha.. padding problems...
NS/Moz and IE handle padding very differently. Ie 5.5+ recognises it being from the inner edge of the table cell, NS4 doesn't see it, NS6&7 use the outer table edge.
You'll come across countless problems with cross browser CSS. I'd suggest getting a copy of TopStyle Lite 2, it's a WYSIWYG CSS tool, but it also supplies some rather cool validation tools and allows you to create your CSS to your taret browser.
Have a look at this:
wip.history-compass.com/historycd/
This is my latest demo site, heavy CSS, AND IT WONT WRK IN ANYTHING under IE5.5, NS6.22 and Moz 1.2, but that decision was made for technical reasons.
If you have any other problems, give us a shout and I'll point you in the direction of some useful sites
NS/Moz and IE handle padding very differently. Ie 5.5+ recognises it being from the inner edge of the table cell, NS4 doesn't see it, NS6&7 use the outer table edge.
You'll come across countless problems with cross browser CSS. I'd suggest getting a copy of TopStyle Lite 2, it's a WYSIWYG CSS tool, but it also supplies some rather cool validation tools and allows you to create your CSS to your taret browser.
Have a look at this:
wip.history-compass.com/historycd/
This is my latest demo site, heavy CSS, AND IT WONT WRK IN ANYTHING under IE5.5, NS6.22 and Moz 1.2, but that decision was made for technical reasons.
If you have any other problems, give us a shout and I'll point you in the direction of some useful sites
I've spent the last few days teaching myself CSS, and I have to say I find it much more more intuitive and powerful then HTML. I guess this is the point. Anyway I've knocked up the skeleton of my website in about half the time it would have taken me in HTML (unless I used Dreamweaver of course:). Oh, and I should thank Tyla for posting those CSS links in another thread because the three column thing was doing my head in until I read those guidelines.
The only real problem I've had with CSS is getting the same results in IE and Mozilla. After a lot of experimentation I've ironed out the worst of the bugs, but I have one niggle left: the menu headings in my sidebar varying in size and knocking the headings out of alignment.
The page is at www.kernel.dsl.pipex.com/problem.htm
It's not exactly a site breaker, but it still bugs me. Any suggestions gratefully received.
The only real problem I've had with CSS is getting the same results in IE and Mozilla. After a lot of experimentation I've ironed out the worst of the bugs, but I have one niggle left: the menu headings in my sidebar varying in size and knocking the headings out of alignment.
The page is at www.kernel.dsl.pipex.com/problem.htm
It's not exactly a site breaker, but it still bugs me. Any suggestions gratefully received.