MOU, Thanks for the prompt and thorough response. It will take me a while to fit in your suggestions, though I note your enthusiasm! Might a good starting point for my education be a couple of urls where you consider this is well done and a good advertisement for the technique?
Again many thanks, Joseph > Hi Joseph > > The question you ask is a mighty discussion all to itself! There are so many > things to say, from beginner stuff all the way to super-advanced, I just > don't know where to start. > > Best do some reading first I think. > > Hunt around http://www.alistapart.com for articles on CSS design (but you'll > need to look at the earlier stuff to get the theory and starting material - > try "Flexible Layouts with CSS Positioning" > http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flexiblelayouts/ to throw you in at the > deep end!! Might not mean a lot but the theory might be useful - it's > probably an intermediate document). > > Also there's a great load of stuff on WHY to do it (specifically the > articles "Better Living Through XHTML" > http://www.alistapart.com/articles/betterliving/ and "To Hell With Bad > Browsers" http://www.alistapart.com/articles/tohell/) > > Try the CSS intro at http://www.w3schools.com/css/ > > And some books off the top of my head: Jeffrey Zeldman's "Designing With Web > Standards", Eric Meyer's "Eric Meyer on CSS" and W3 Schools are advertising > "Designing WIthout Tables Using CSS" by Dan Shafer. > > Just generally Google around I guess for things like "tableless design", > "css positioning" and "web standards" to see what you can dig up. > > Once you start reading you'll (hopefully) see why we always moan about > table-based design in contemporary web development and want to ditch them > forever. > > I can dig out a ton more stuff once you get going. > > MOU > *dreams of a web where table-based design was killed by having Netscape > 4.x's corpse rammed down its throat* > ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
