Marc Funaro wrote:
> HTML 4.01 Strict is what I think I'll shoot for.
Good choice.
> It seems the validator does not like the ULs nested inside, but
> that's what I think I need to accomplish...?
Wrong nesting of lists.
Each subsequent ul should be wrapped in a li, like so...
<ul>
<li><h3>Writers</h3></li>
<li>
<ul>
<li>NYS LitMap Authors</li>
<li>NYC LitMap Authors</li>
<li>NYS Native American Authors</li>
<li>LitMap Author Nomination</li>
<li>Circuit Writers</li>
<li>Interstate/International Writers</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><h3>Literary Entities</h3></li>
<li>
<ul>
....and so on. Also, notice the headlines I've put in there.
Example of heavily nested unordered list...
<http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/toc_7a.html>
...with valid nesting.
> Once I have the markup validated, I'm not sure where to start, in
> order to apply different styles to lists and "sub lists" and "sub sub
> lists", which this left navigation DOES contain... Can you point me
> to a good article?
Someone else might chime in with a suitable article.
I think you'll do fine on your own.
Zero out margins and paddings first, and then try adding them back along
with some styles. Setting 'list-style: none' will also probably work
well from the start.
Doing it from the bottom yourself, may take slightly longer than just
borrowing some solution, but you'll learn more that way.
> Also, I have changed PageTitle to <h1> and applied a style there,
> which works. I have also put all my text into P's and applied the
> style there as well.
Looking much more organized now.
> I am slowly working through the list of suggestions... This is
> turning out much better now. I can see that my overriding
> skills-needed area is in planning the HTML part of the document, long
> before the styles are applied. I just never would have envisioned
> the "sections" or "tiles" of this document as they have turned out,
> and so my starting point was already quite poor.
Plan the source-code well, and you can style it to look like almost
anything. Only IE/win's weaknesses are giving us some real headaches at
times, the other browsers create mostly minor problems.
> What are all of you using for regular development - Opera to start? I
> read in one of the (many) articles that Opera now always tries to do
> everything without a "quirks" mode, and the latest version now
> supports the DOM standard... So does that make it the best browser
> with which to do the primary development tasks?
Opera's 'quirks mode' replicates IE/win in most parts, and will continue
to do so, I think. Its support for standards are growing steadily, but
it isn't perfect or bug-free yet.
Choice of browser as design-tool is mostly a "personal preference" thing
that we rarely discuss - apart from mostly agreeing that it should be
one of the most standard compliant ones.
I /personally/ think Opera 9.0 beta is the strongest browser at the
moment - so that's the one I always start designing in. Some prefer the
latest Firefox or Safari. Any design should be tested in all of these
and a few more anyway, so it's no big deal, IMO.
Just don't design for/in IE/win. Those buggers (IE6 & IE7) should be
left out till later... much later :-)
regards
Georg
--
http://www.gunlaug.no
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