Magento is great in practice, but I've found that the only big thing about
it for my customers is the admin facilities. But for a designer it's a lot
of hard work. I've seen some fantastic examples of what can be done with
Magento and there have been some great features that use jQuery (by far the
For problems with box alignment, I know I usually turn on background colors
to clearly see the size and position of the boxes the browser is using.
Or is that a newbie answer?
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Michael Horowitz
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Just figured out my recent issues.
Actually that helped me with my image problem. It let me know the issue
was with how I was defining my background image when it worked with a
background color.
The hardest thing about learning a new language is learning its
troubleshooting techniques.
Michael Horowitz
Your Computer
That's so true. Just figuring out how to reliably display debugging data in
a new language can often take awhile. But there are a host of
troubleshooting principles that can be applied almost universally.
I've found it almost universally applicable to keep simplifying the problem
until you get to
Fred Ballard wrote:
For problems with box alignment, I know I usually turn on
background colors to clearly see the size and position of the boxes
the browser is using.
Or is that a newbie answer?
Definitely not a newbie method. Setting backgrounds is one of the
quickest ways to check
My first steps are of course make sure things validate. Beyond that I don't
have any standard steps besides really using google. Any good lists of
generic steps people do when troubleshooting CSS issues.
One URL: http://getfirebug.com/
Regards,
Rimantas
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The web developer toolbar for firefox can help you to see block level
elements, choose - outline outline block level elements. This can
sometimes be a big help when sections are behaving oddly.
Darren Lovelock
Munky Online Web Design
http://www.munkyonline.co.uk
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Actually that helped me with my image
Yeah, FireBug really do its job pretty well. Just turn on the inspect menu,
and hover it to the section of your page, you will see the box layout. I use
it to find out which divs that cause a problem(width problem).
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Setting backgrounds is one of the quickest ways to check line-ups
while designing and troubleshooting.
Another technique I use daily is to invalidate CSS rules instead of
commenting them out during troubleshooting.
I second these techniques. I use bg colours as well and invalidate CSS
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