Dear John Unsworth, Your kindness and humorous reference to "collectively having kittens" brightened my otherwise challenging day.
I agree with you 100% this site needs a complete CSS upgrade however, for reasons to lengthy to explain here, it's been insisted that I only change the look and feel of the site with minor functionality changes but not the tables structure of the site. I am in the process of learning CSS in preparation for the glorious day I am given the go ahead to upgrade the site. Since my previous email, I have found this website: http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/active-state-in-css-navigations/ which seems to have a solution for the navigation I will try to implement. I appreciate the book references you supplied which I will add to my learning materials. Thank you for your reply and help with my challenge. Smiles, Emily > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:39:46 +1100 > Subject: Re: [WSG] Horizontal Menu Bar Help Needed > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Hi Emily, > > Firstly the problem you describe might be your browser. I'm using > Safari on a Mac and the desired effect appears to occur, whether I use > the back button or click Home again. So this might be the reason your > not getting the expected effect. > > Secondly, the standards group I would imagine are collectively having > kittens seeing all that table based layout rendered by Dreamweaver. > Whilst there is often some debate, on the whole most people employ a > list for navigation rather than a table, however I'm assuming the > whole page is a table layout and thus whilst I would encourage you to > reconsider, I'm not going to go into an entire rewrite. I would then > suggest to you it's time to learn some CSS. > > Your Dreamweaver behaviours are embedded Javascript(s), added to which > all your presentation information, such as width and height are inline > to boot. What you want to strive for is plain simple HTML, with > externally linked CSS and JS files. This approach is sometimes > referred to as 'three layers'. That being Content (HTML), Presentation > (CSS) and finally Behaviours (Javascript). > > Presuming this is not just a practice piece of work and the error your > getting is just within your browser, I don't think there is a simple > bit of 'code' that will fix this. Moving forward I can only suggest > you change your methods in line with the sentiments of the standards > group. > > Personally if your starting out I can't recommend Ian Lloyd's 'Build > your website the right way, using HTML and CSS' from Sitepoint, and > 'HTML Dog, The best-practice guide to XHTML & CSS' by Patrick > Griffiths enough. > > All the best, > John Unsworth > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [email protected] > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
