Re: [css-d] dreamweaver mx -awful for css design

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Melia
For Mac users there is HyperEdit - http://www.apple.com/downloads/ 
macosx/internet_utilities/hyperedit.html


Or you can try Eclipse, the free open-source, java-based IDE that  
runs on everything - http://www.eclipse.org


There are plenty of plug-ins for Eclipse (some free and some not)  
that add the functions you desire.
The Eclipse plug-in that comes to mind is MyEclipse - http:// 
www.myeclipseide.com/

(but it is not free)

HTH,
Paul

On Aug 14, 2005, at 4:53 PM, gareth rushgrove wrote:




[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

This is so annoying...does anyone know of a good css extension or  
other visual application so I can see my DIV's as I build them?




TopStyle Pro (www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/index.asp) is great. I'm a  
recent convert having just moved jobs. As long as you aren't  
looking for any WYSIWYG type action that is.


From an XHTML and CSS point of view it's a joy. As for previewing  
you can view a live preview rendered either with the IE engine or  
with Gecko, flipping between them simply (or viewing both side by  
side).


G
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Re: [css-d] converting to tableless- quick question

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Melia
I have found the SitePoint books to be very useful. In this case.  
HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS would be a good  
title - http://www.sitepoint.com/books/css1/


Also, I have all of Eric Meyer's books going back to his first  
O'Reilly title and every one of them is an important reference in my  
library.

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/books/


HTH,
Paul

On Aug 14, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Rebecca Cox wrote:

Its not perfect, but I found the book Stylin with CSS (Charles Wyke- 
Smith)

covers a lot of ground and gives good summaries of current practice.

Its not 100% accurate - lots of typos etc but overall very useful.

Cheers

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To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
Subject: [css-d] converting to tableless- quick question

Does anyone know of a good book or, even better, a website that has  
some
basic pointers on how to convert a tables site into a tabless CSS  
site?

I got a huge project ahead. Thanks

Adam
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[css-d] Newbie: IE 6 positioning problems

2005-07-21 Thread Paul Melia

Hello,

I am attempting to make my first CSS website.
I have created a very simple page. It renders properly in Safari,  
Netscape and Firefox.
Using the Web Developer extension in Firefox, I have confirmed that  
the page is valid HTML and has valid CSS.
As I am a complete newbie to CSS layout, I truly appreciate any  
guidance.


Thank you,
Paul Melia

The Issues:

#1) I have an unordered list that I am styling into a tab navigation.  
In Firefox, Netscape and Safari, the nav positions properly but in IE  
6 it lands below where it should reside.


#2) My design is a one-column centered layout. The column's width is  
set to 600 pixels. Within the column, I have an image which is 701  
pixels wide and is set to float so that part of the image can appear  
outside of the column. This works fine in the three previously  
mentioned browsers but causes IE 6 to expand the column to match the  
width of the image.


The web page:
http://www.propagatedesign.com/cssindex.lasso

HTML:
body id=home
div id=header
/div
div id=frame
ul id=tabnav
li class=homea href=/cssindex.lassoHome/a/li
li class=servicesa href=/public/ 
services.lassoServices/a/li
li class=portfolioa href=/public/ 
portfolio.lassoPortfolio/a/li
li class=abouta href=/public/about.lassoAbout  
Us/a/li
li class=contacta href=/public/ 
contact.lassoContact Us/a/li
li class=clienta href=/client/login.lassoClient  
Area/a/li

/ul
br
br
div id=splashimage
img src=/images/prop_butterflies.png alt=Conceptual  
image of man with ideas width=701 height=337

/div
div id=serviceline
  text
/div
p
text
/p
/div
/body


CSS:
/* Propgate Design LLC CSS Style Sheet V1.0 */
/* July 18, 2005 */

/* General Styles */



html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #933;
text-align: center;
}

p {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: #00;
text-align: justify;
vertical-align: baseline;
line-height: 16pt;
white-space: normal;
padding: 0 35px 0 35px;
}

#header {
background-color: white;
border-bottom: #33;
width: 100%;
height: 30px;
display: block;
border-width: 0 0 1px 0;
border-style: none none solid none;
}


#frame
{
/* set thw width of the column */
width: 600px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
background-color: white;
border-right: #33;
border-left: #33;
border-bottom: #33;
border-width: 0 1px 1px 1px;
border-style: none solid none solid;
padding: 0 0 50px 0;
}



/* Nav Styles  */

ul#tabnav
{
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
font: bold 11px verdana, arial, sans-serif;
position: relative;
top: -25px;
left: -25px;
}
ul#tabnav li {
float: left;
height: 21px;
background-color: #99;
color: #FF;
margin: 2px 2px 0 2px;
border: 1px solid #00;
}
ul#tabnav a:link, ul#tabnav a:visited {
display: block;
color: #FF;
background-color: transparent;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 4px;
}
ul#tabnav a:hover {
background-color: #CC;
color: #FF;
}
body#home li.home, body#contact li.contact, body#about li.about,  
body#portfolio li.portfolio, body#client li.client, body#services  
li.services {

border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
color: #00;
background-color: #FF;
}
body#home li.home a:link, body#home li.home a:visited,
body#contact li.contact a:link, body#contact li.contact a:visited,
body#about li.about a:link, body#about li.about a:visited,
body#portfolio li.portfolio a:link, body#portfolio li.portfolio  
a:visited,

body#client li.client a:link, body#client li.client a:visited,
body#services li.services a:link, body#services li.services a:visited {
color: #00;
background-color: #FF;
}


/* Specific Styles  */


#serviceline
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
color: #000;
font-size: 11pt;
line-height: 24pt;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
text-transform: inherit;
}

#splashimage
{
width: 701px;
height: 337px;
position: relative;
top: -30px;
left: -101px;
background-color: transparent;
}

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