Hi Bert, You said: "What about all those nested divs - not as bad as (shudder) nested tables, but is it necessary? "
- Not that bad at all, see "Nested DIVs, nested TABLEs, what's the difference?" at (1). Anyway, and this way, I have dealt with the box model problem in IE without hacks (I think). As I told, this was based on something James Ellis posted a while ago at WSG, see (2) and look for "3 column CSS layout with footer that works"; - The metadata is experimental, as I am trying to incorporate Dublin Core Metadata in the design and look for the results (in terms of "searchability"); - The class="normal" is my way of controlling template properties in Dreamweaver, so that some items in the navigation menu, defined in the template, can be changed in the individual pages... for instance, setting the style of the current page corresponding item in the left menu to another background-color and color, as well as suppressing the link to itself. I know, I am not an hand-coder, shame on me :)); You said: "Can't help you on the server issue (other than to make the image bigger so the server WILL serve it) but what is the "background bullet technique? Can't you use a list-style-image?" - Manuel already answered: Yes, that's the reason and the source is that resource (3) that Manuel pointed; Thank you for your feedback, Bert :) (1) http://www.alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss/ (2) http://webstandardsgroup.org/resources/ (3) http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listutorial/introduction.htm My best, Carlos www.cb2web.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:41 AM Subject: RE: [WSG] CSS 3-col draft: Request for opinion Hi Carlos and group I'm new to the Web Standards Group and am not famliar with past discussion topics - hope I'm not speaking out of turn. I'm quite familiar with CSS and XHTML (1.1) but always willing to learn new tricks. > http://www.apex-ethics.com/ One of the things I noticed is the amount of code in the head section - lots of comments (presumably inserted by Dreamweaver) and Meta data. Perhaps I'm ignorant, but is all that code necessary for a site to function? What about all those nested divs - not as bad as (shudder) nested tables, but is it necessary? Also, I see lots of links with class="normal". Would it not be more efficient to set the default link in the container to waht this class represents? In other words, set the style for "#Navleft a" to what your "normal" class currently has. (I tend to use classes only for exceptions) > I am using the "background bullet" technique. Can't help you on the server issue (other than to make the image bigger so the server WILL serve it) but what is the "background bullet technique? Can't you use a list-style-image? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
