I have built up a component that handles header/footer and three col layouts on the fly (as well as manipulating the number cols in a three col layout approach (i.e hide 1 or 2 of the three) and control the order that the left column, middle and right column appear in (i.e l-m-r, r-m-l, r-l-m)). And handles the widths as well. It's based heavily on Doug Bowman's (http://www.stopdesign.com/) work for Apadtive path (you can see it in action here: http:///www.adaptivepath.com/, e.g the homepage and the services are the same template, but display varying numbers of columns).
Of course this is not a GUI based tool, but it has helped me save a considerable amount of time when setting up templates. Of course nesting other items (say two more columns within the middle one) still requires some hand coding and patience. G On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:04:30 -0700, Ben Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> However, for doing application development, where i > >> usually just want to layout my content variables in a > >> grid like fashion using CSS is painfully slow... > > > > If what you are laying out is a grid/table then use a table. That is > > still considered by CSS purist's to be a valid (and semantically > > correct) best practice. > > > > What CSS best practice is against is using tables (especially lots of > > nested tables) to layout non-tabular data. > > > The mental test I find best to determine whether a table is > appropriate: are there rows and columns, and do they mean something? If > so, then that's what tables are for, so use 'em. > > -- > > Ben Curtis > WebSciences International > http://www.websciences.org/ > v: (310) 478-6648 > f: (310) 235-2067 > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > in the message of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported > by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- e: greg.stewart(a)gmail.com w: http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/ ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
