Hi, this is my first request. I just found you a few days ago. I am enjoying the digest, some of which I understand and some of which is straight over my head.
I put my community college student newspaper on the web, and have for several years. It has been a great experience as I am a web design major. It is a "one-man" operation, so I do everything from a to z. Thank god for dreamweaver. When I had to design it back in 02, I was new to computers and web design, having only begun to learn how to use a computer in the fall 00 and started with HTML summer of 01. So the only way I knew how was with the use of nested tables with a bit of CSS for basic style, that has grown over the years as I have taught myself(I went into the back issues and redid some coding for the css additions). CSS is not being taught, as I don't think anybody on the faculty really knows it so I find no help there. The url of the paper is - http://www.capecod.edu/mainsheet/currentissue/content.htm After I uploaded the last issue for spring06, I decided to convert the layout to CSS with no tables. For this undertaking I have been studying CSS, on the Internet and with books. My main question at the moment is how do I insert the articles into the content div. I thought that each story would gets its own div with a class called article. Is that possible? Sometime there would be only 4 or 5 news items, and at other times there would be over a dozen. I guess my question boils down is there a limit of the number of divs in the main content area. From my research I have seen samples that seem to contain only 2 or 3. Is there another way to organize the content. My present thought for the layout is as follows: div = container - about 760px centered div = header div = nav horizontal under the header (is it better as a separate div or as part of the header div?) div = content div = column 1 news items div = column 2 entertainment, letters, opinions div = footer The weekly paper comes as either, a 4 page, 8 page, or a maximum 12 page edition. There are ads in the paper which do not get transferred to the web edition. There are about 12 issues per semester. I'll really appreciated any help and direction you can give me. I am not a programmer, as I have come late to this as I got by MFA in the 60's. This is something really different and most of the time swimming against the current, but I enjoy the challenge. Maya Jaklitsch __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
