[css-d] Can CSS get me out of the stone age?
If you click on the link below and then look at the source code, you will see a tremendous amount of duplicate antiquated html coding that I am sure could be coded much more efficiently using CSS. http://www.coastalind.com/ciordersample.html Does anyone have any suggested CSS coding that would streamline this page? Scott __ 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/
Re: [css-d] Can CSS get me out of the stone age?
--- On Thu, 8/26/10, Lineberger, Scott sline...@coastalind.com wrote: http://www.coastalind.com/ciordersample.html Does anyone have any suggested CSS coding that would streamline this page? Not really, no. CSS cannot be used to reduce *content*, only to style it. Your issue is one of markup - how best to represent thousands of items in a form - and, thus, isn't really suitable for this list, IMO. - Bobby __ 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/
Re: [css-d] Can CSS get me out of the stone age?
http://www.coastalind.com/ciordersample.html Does anyone have any suggested CSS coding that would streamline this page? Not really, no. CSS cannot be used to reduce *content*, only to style it. Your issue is one of markup - how best to represent thousands of items in a form - and, thus, isn't really suitable for this list, IMO. - Bobby I disagree. There are ways to style forms, so why not!? Streamlined makes me think that you're talking about speed so maybe adding images and things isn't such a good idea in that sense but would make it look better. Ermm, google it - there's lots out there. 'styling forms with CSS'... __ 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/
Re: [css-d] Can CSS get me out of the stone age?
Chris Blake wrote: I disagree. There are ways to style forms, so why not!? Streamlined makes me think that you're talking about speed so maybe adding images and things isn't such a good idea in that sense but would make it look better. Ermm, google it - there's lots out there. 'styling forms with CSS'... Yes, but how would that streamline the page, which is the ultimate aim ? As the original message correctly identifies, the page contains a tremendous amount of duplicate [] html coding, and I cannot see how CSS can help to reduce that. The problem appears more a methodological one than a stylistic one. Philip Taylor __ 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/
Re: [css-d] Can CSS get me out of the stone age?
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Lineberger, Scott sline...@coastalind.com wrote: http://www.coastalind.com/ciordersample.html Does anyone have any suggested CSS coding that would streamline this page? Scott The fundamental problem with this page is the factor of 15. You have a list of possible products listed 15 times so that a customer could purchase multiple items. In my opinion javascript might be your best bet for cutting back on the shear volume of content in the page. There is another list that might be more helpful on that aspect of the problem. http://webdesign-L.com/ There could easily be other more appropriate lists. This just happens to be one I subscribe to. One approach to tackling the problem would be to have a single list of products and multiple lines of input. In a simplistic approach a radio button could be used as the selector. The form would open with the radio button selected for the first sales line. The customer could select a product from the master drop-down list, select quantity, then click a button indicating wish to buy it. This would add that item to a separate input field and move the radio button selection to the next item and restyle the drop-down list so that now it is positioned on the second line. etc. All of this would require some nice css styling (this list could help with that.) But to run the guts of the process you will need javascript or php or something similar. Basically to make that page accessible, in my opinion, you will need to divide the content size by 15. Regards, Claude http://www.galaxywebsitedesign.com __ 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/
