As a university site, I believe your boss is probably referring to "accessibility" rather than just "usability", since there are probably legal standards which may govern the development of public, state-funded sites.
CSS can be a royal pain and takes a while get used to. I think the main thing to grasp early is how divs can be used...seeing how they work when floated, positioned absolutely...how they relate to one another. Get that down and then just start using them as containers for the various parts of your site... at least that's how I do it. But CSS is going to most likely be a big part of your life as a developer for a university. Section 508 Compliance, etc. I decided not to even bid on a government contract when I saw that the bid paperwork, itself, was about 25 pages long with requirements and restrictions, etc. I just had too much work on my plate already to spend that kind of time on the project *bid*, much less the project itself! www.section508.gov hth, Rick -----Original Message----- From: John Barrett [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 5:13 AM To: cf-newbie Subject: Re: cfquery & dynamic CSS? Hi Rick, thank so much for getting back to me:) Sorry to get back to you so late, but I was really bust transferring all the forms to CSS, yikes! I will agree with you as far as usability goes the way the site was build does not seem to matter, well to me. there will always be that fight table VS. CSS for layout, etc. i am new to CSS, and I am using lots of tutorials from Adobe's Dreamweaver Devnet, along with the templates that ship with CS 4. I am keeping all the styles in a separate css file,and nothing in the page itself, this is what you mean bu in-line? I have yet to figure out the print.css, but I did find an article on Adobe. I am not sure what is going on but they say all University site must be compliant. I am just going for the test is to see if the html/CSS passing, then I figure I am cool, but I don't think that this means that the site is accessibility? I have changed most of the site to CSS, except the tabular data, I will have to see if it is worth even trying with CSS. thanks, John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-newbie/message.cfm/messageid:4776 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-newbie/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.15
