RE: [css-d] Frustration learning css for layout

2005-10-26 Thread Dean Matsueda
> Without knowing or understanding some basics, I get the > feeling that I'm building on quicksand, and thinking fondly of tables. I totally sympathize but you hit the nail on the head... to master any piece of web technology (or just about anything really) you've got to get a thorough understand

RE: [css-d] Newcomer to CSS

2005-09-21 Thread Dean Matsueda
> I did my first CSS site, and I am ready to go back to > tables Please look at my site and tell me what I did > wrong. I feel like such a looser - all that work > and it the CSS doesn't work. http://www.wminc.biz > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I think we can all sympathi

RE: [css-d] Opera ASA giving away license codes (1 day only!)

2005-08-30 Thread Dean Matsueda
> it won't give u the registration code if your using a browser > other than Opera. just in case you tried it like me and all > you got were blank boxes. Seems to work with Safari. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css

RE: [css-d] What is "transparent url"

2005-08-05 Thread Dean Matsueda
> Despite 5 people saying it, this is actually technically > incorrect, and the difference (although minor) is probably > worth pointing out. Indeed and glad you've clarified. But for someone just beginning to learn CSS, would it help to distill it down to: But be careful with using shorthand

RE: [css-d] What is "transparent url"

2005-08-05 Thread Dean Matsueda
> background: transparent url(filename). This is a shorthand method for writing CSS rules. This rule has multiple values, that are space-separated. The first value sets the background color to transparent; the second value is the server path or URL where the browser can find the image. The same

RE: [css-d] CSS and Typography

2005-07-05 Thread Dean Matsueda
> I agree with Alan -- it *does* look terrible. The points > which the bullets are supposed to signify are *much* harder > to locate with the eye. And the quotation marks sticking out > into the margin area -- I have *never* seen that in the > thousands of books, magazines, newspapers, etc. tha

RE: [css-d] Challenge for the bored CSS develoer

2005-06-14 Thread Dean Matsueda
> There is something about some CSS 2 / XHTML compliant > websites that bothers me, compared to table layed out websites.. > > > What it is, is "looks" Yes, I've heard this before but have you seen all the different layouts at csszengarden.com? There's definitely a few unique ones in there and