Wow. I got a mountain of suggestions that I did not expect; all valuable. There were common themes. Many involved the way I lifted example code and expected it to work real time without understanding the specifics. In my own defense, this fascinates me, and I'm probably trying to go too fast to arrive at the result I can see in my mind.
Several people also made comments that made me think about which code belongs in the style sheet and which items must be handled at the page level. Here are two responses giving me the most to think about: 1. Tim wrote about putting page elements in containers (hope I paraphrased him correctly). That brings up an issue I will have to deal with quickly. My goal for each image is this: Beneath each one should be a bit of text crediting the source/photographer. In print publications, it's not only standard courtesy, but there are some legal issues concerning copyright and fair use. I can either add the credit by going into Photoshop and re-processing every single image so that it includes said text (NOT going to happen), or I can devise some way via html/css to display the credit beneath the image. 2. Also, the mail I got from Chris. He touched on something crucial. Notice how I named this document "a_body_vance_divs.htm"? One of my first thoughts when I started this was that I should use divs to speed download. Not so important now that dial-up is mostly dead, but I'd still like to simplify page loading. If I understood him correctly, he was also pointing out that using divs would be the most efficient way to push all body text and images 140 pixels to the right. That leads me to a what I'm planning for that cleared area on the left .... Remember how I prefaced an early query by saying something like "ignore the attempted fly-out navigation links at the top left"? My preferred design for this site is that the user will navigate to categories via some type of links in a column occupying the medium-brown area on the left. (I'll wait until a future version to use fly-outs, although I think Amazon.com has implemented them successfully.) One method I've seen (I won't provide a link because it was at a porn site) featured a link the user could click on and up would pop a tall vertical box with main topics in bigger gray text and individual pages within that category in smaller gray text. It was all seamless and the user merely had to mouse up to the target and click. Clever, but a little too graceless for my taste. What I prefer for this first revision of my little hobby site is a vertical row of lighter-brown boxes in the medium-gray area on the left, each with the category only (books, music, etc). Upon arrival in that category, the links at left will change to separate pages. Apologies for this lengthy note. - Keith Purtell ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
