Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-07 Thread Felix Miata
Felix Miata wrote: body {font-family: Geneva, 'nimbus sans', 'luxi sans', Arial, sans serif;} Can't believe I did that. The reason I replied in the first place was to fix the fallback by including the required hyphen: body {font-family: Geneva, 'nimbus sans', 'luxi sans', Arial, sans-serif;}

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-07 Thread Tom Livingston
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:23:48 -0400, Benjamin Rossen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stand corrected. Thanks. Benjamin Rossen. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Dan_MailLists
Trevor Boult said - So I decided to give it a go on my homepage http://www.tboult.co.uk Should I really have a 17k stylesheet? seems rather big, is their a way to be more efficient with my code? Hi Trevor, you could take better advantage of the inheritance - child elements inheriting the

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Tom Livingston
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:56:57 -0400, Trevor Boult [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I really have a 17k stylesheet? Not really. Although impressively neat and tidy, you could do with some efficiencies. Things like font-family. Unless changing font families, you can specify it once on the

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Paul Sturgess
you could always take the inheritance a step further and use: * { margin: 0; padding: 0; } place that at the top of your stylesheet and it will set margin and padding to 0 on all elements. thus no need to repeat it throughout. you could take better advantage of the inheritance - child

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Benjamin Rossen
body{font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif ;} You can improve this. In a Windows machine you will get Arial font, and in a Mac you will get the similar Helvetica. However, your viewers using Linux are likely to get the bit-mapped Helvetica font. This font is required for system components

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Trevor Boult wrote: http://www.tboult.co.uk Should I really have a 17k stylesheet? seems rather big, is their a way to be more efficient with my code? 17k isn't necessarily too big, if it covers a complex site. Looks a bit large in your case though. I think below 6k should do fine for your

RE: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Peter Williams
From: Benjamin Rossen body{font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif ;} Also, some browsers will not understand the generic term 'sans serif' with a capital letter. This will give you the best result on the widest range of platforms. body { font-family: Arial, Sans, Helvetica, sans

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Felix Miata
Benjamin Rossen wrote: Tom Livingston wrote: body{font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif ;} You can improve this. In a Windows machine you will get Arial font, and in a Mac you will get the similar Helvetica. However, your viewers using Linux are likely to get the bit-mapped Helvetica

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Benjamin Rossen
From: Benjamin Rossen body{font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif ;} Also, some browsers will not understand the generic term 'sans serif' with a capital letter. This will give you the best result on the widest range of platforms. body { font-family: Arial, Sans, Helvetica, sans