Hello all, I work for a small non-profit, and I'm taking over our web stuff. My first web task was making sense of a mess of code left us by a briefly hired web designer. He started us on the CSS path but left us with an unusable/updatable website. Our "new" site (that I've been working on) looks almost the same as his, except that I think everyone in the office will be able to update it now as it just makes more sense under the hood.
We're still checking bugs, and there are several non-bug problems with the site that we'll be looking at in the next iteration of updates (such as default font-size--ours is too small, and apparently we shouldn't use serif type--and even some more basic issues of how we structure the relationship of different pieces of content.) However, the main problem I'm having right now is that, for some reason (an unknown one, to be precise), my CSS isn't applying to our front page. It works for every single other page in the website, just not the first one. I'm at my wits end trying to figure out what's wrong. The whole site validates as either XHTML strict or XHTML transitional (only two pages in transitional, the rest strict), and all the files seem to be in the right places. If you all could help me figure out what I'm doing wrong, I would be much obliged. The URL is www.testing.grassrootspolicy.org The stylesheets are at: http://www.testing.grassrootspolicy.org/styles/frontpage3.css http://www.testing.grassrootspolicy.org/styles/CURRENT_stylesheet_PIECES/fro ntpagespecfic.css http://www.testing.grassrootspolicy.org/styles/CURRENT_stylesheet_PIECES/ele ments2.css http://www.testing.grassrootspolicy.org/styles/CURRENT_stylesheet_PIECES/tag sforall.css (Yes, I know this is a complicated stylesheet structure--one stylesheet holding 3 others. I made things this way so that the folks in my office stand a chance of being able to edit the stylesheets once I'm gone. I wanted to make very clear what kinds of things the different styles were doing, where they went, etc. Obviously, this section needs some work.) Thanks again! Judith -- Judith Miller Program Associate Grassroots Policy Project 2040 S St., NW Washington, DC 20009 www.grassrootspolicy.org (202) 387-2933 ext. 265 ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
