I was using percentages, but it didn’t feel right when I found myself tweaking to find that magic number that extended my block element to full width and didn’t blow up the overall composition.

 

I know, it’s all about KNOWING what you are doing.  This guessing approach (maybe if I use 63% here and 798px there, that will work?)

 

I went to Barnes & Nobel last night and looked over (read half of) all their books on CSS and came home with

 

Cascading Style Sheets

--Separating Content From Presentation—

Owen Briggs, Steven Champeon, Eric Costello, and Matt Patterson

 

I like it a lot so far.  Seems to have a developer’s feel vs. being and academic reference text.  With some excellent case studies of REAL websites and how they coded them (vs. an abstract 2-column layout all by itself.)

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Dan

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Blankenship
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [plum] Need a CSS text and/or HELP

 

Use percentages instead of hard coding widths.
Here is a link to gander http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/learning

On 4/28/05, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

HELP

 

I need a CSS text. I am getting extremely frustrated trying to configure the Layout and Style sheets for a new Plum project. I have what I consider to be a relatively simple layout schematic but cannot get it to work in the Plum framework.  This is not a Plum problem per se, it's mostly I don't understand CSS-P well enough to just do it. I'm experimenting here and guessing there between header.cfm, footer.cfm, basestyles.css and it sorta looks okay until I maximize the browser, or size down the browser, and it blows up.

 

Can anyone point me to a book I can go out and buy NOW that will help me get this "simple" layout understood and done.

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

Dan Kaufman

 

 

 

An Elephant Never Forgets

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