RE: [css-d] Frustration learning css for layout

2005-10-26 Thread Dean Matsueda
Without knowing or understanding some basics, I get the feeling that I'm building on quicksand, and thinking fondly of tables. I totally sympathize but you hit the nail on the head... to master any piece of web technology (or just about anything really) you've got to get a thorough

RE: [css-d] Newcomer to CSS

2005-09-21 Thread Dean Matsueda
I did my first CSS site, and I am ready to go back to tables Please look at my site and tell me what I did wrong. I feel like such a looser - all that work and it the CSS doesn't work. http://www.wminc.biz Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I think we can all sympathize

RE: [css-d] Opera ASA giving away license codes (1 day only!)

2005-08-30 Thread Dean Matsueda
it won't give u the registration code if your using a browser other than Opera. just in case you tried it like me and all you got were blank boxes. Seems to work with Safari. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [css-d] What is transparent url

2005-08-05 Thread Dean Matsueda
background: transparent url(filename). This is a shorthand method for writing CSS rules. This rule has multiple values, that are space-separated. The first value sets the background color to transparent; the second value is the server path or URL where the browser can find the image. The same

RE: [css-d] What is transparent url

2005-08-05 Thread Dean Matsueda
Despite 5 people saying it, this is actually technically incorrect, and the difference (although minor) is probably worth pointing out. Indeed and glad you've clarified. But for someone just beginning to learn CSS, would it help to distill it down to: But be careful with using shorthand

RE: [css-d] CSS and Typography

2005-07-05 Thread Dean Matsueda
I agree with Alan -- it *does* look terrible. The points which the bullets are supposed to signify are *much* harder to locate with the eye. And the quotation marks sticking out into the margin area -- I have *never* seen that in the thousands of books, magazines, newspapers, etc. that

RE: [css-d] Challenge for the bored CSS develoer

2005-06-14 Thread Dean Matsueda
There is something about some CSS 2 / XHTML compliant websites that bothers me, compared to table layed out websites.. What it is, is looks Yes, I've heard this before but have you seen all the different layouts at csszengarden.com? There's definitely a few unique ones in there and the