One of the things that helped me the most when I was trying to grasp how layout is achieved with CSS was to find a free CSS-layout template on the web (just search for "free CSS web design templates" and you should get a ton of links), download it, and put it in my local development system.
Then, I went through the template's code (css & html), line-by-line, and made small changes to the code to see how it affected the site. I would tinker, at first, with just font-styles, colors, borders, etc...things that didn't affect layout. Then, I started playing around with the positioning of div's and other structural pieces of the code and watched what happened. That gave me the benefit of seeing, in a complete site, how certain changes affected everything on the page. After I did that to a couple of templates the css-layout "thing" began to make sense. But I'm still learning...constantly... Rick -----Original Message----- From: John Barrett [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 4:00 AM To: cf-newbie Subject: Re: cfquery & dynamic CSS? Hi Rick, Thanks for your help`-` Yes I think that you are right,a s there is take about "people with disabilities" and access to the sites. I guess I thought that the two were the same thing, as they did ask about the 508 stuff, now I heard about it, but never until clicking on your link did I read anything about it. The only good thing I can say about the site for section 508 is that it is in ColdFuson. Yes, I think that CSS is a royal pain!! Yes I think that you are right, that CSS & lots of paperwork is part of being a developer at the University, which is probably just a step below for working for the government as far as paperwork goes, well at least in Hawaii. I am actually just a student helper, but love the job because I get to code in ColdFusion. Thank for the advice, I have been doing lots of reading on CSS, and it is turing out not to be such a nightmare, a little though however. Yeah I am starting to see the structure with div tags too. I was able to build a form in CSS, and this is a good start 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:4778 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-newbie/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.15
