TABLE FREE LAYOUT - WORKSHOP - CSS - WEB DEV. - NEILS RESOURCE WEB
Summary of Content
This
is a rework of my CSS Summary page 10/05 I'm trying to reduce my habit of using
tables for layout. Whilst I don't have a problem with tables I want to see how
far I can go (in CSS) without resorting to them. Other than the menu this page is table
free but still manages to reproduce the original design that uses tables. The
next stage is to replace the menu table completely. It doesn't look too
difficult and once the CSS is constructed, depending on its size, I might just
replace them throughout the site.
The more I delve into CSS the more I curse not
having taken time to understand its concept earlier in my site building. It is relatively
simple and can be such a time saver. There are a stack of places where it could
be applied on this site and I intend to work my way through them all. The menu
system for this Resource Web alone took a week to re-work, and I'm still not
happy with it yet. This leads to a really important point, that I have read
about on the web time and time again and failed to acknowledge. Plan the site before you start
building! At least the general look and feel. Using CSS will allow rapid updating /
re-working if it is in place from the start. See my
workshop page for a CSS home page example. (I've put a
link at the foot of the page to the CSS Validator at W3.org)
Moving on (12 months approx. 12/06 ) I've started to take the idea
of CSS standards (because of the above reasons and my increasing understanding
of using styles, classes and related inheritance features) really seriously of late, and as a 'starter for ten' I dragged this site up to HTML 4.01 strict and CSS 2+ (but still include
those 'drop shadow' filters that will never validate). Though once the styles
and classes are in place I've found that the updating relatively easy though
across 500 pages + a bit of a chore.
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Last Updated: 05/03/2008 - Validate CSS - CSS instead of Tables for Layout - Neils Resource Web