[thelist] CSS layout help needed

[M. Seyon]

Message from klute (1/9/2005 11:55 AM)
>rosalie and marc and others, thanks for your replies.
>
>to give you some background: someone built the layout
>for me based on a template (
>http://www.cssdev.com/csslayouts/vertical/two_column/fluid_right.htm
>) frome the site recommended by cody.

Please note that this is in no way a criticism or attack on that site, but 
by the author's own admission, over on the CSS-D mailing list, he's "been 
designing with standards now for just over 6 months". (This was in his post 
announcing his new site - cssdev.com - on October 3rd 2004.)

Additionally his only posts to that list, which is probably the most 
definitive CSS-specific discussion list around, were the thread where he 
announced that new site and subsequent replies to that thread.

I personally would stick with templates developed by people with far 
lengthier experience and demonstrated problem-solving abilities.

In addition to the links previously given to the noodleincident site and 
the brainjar article, http://www.positioniseverything.net/index.php is 
another excellent resource. Though it doesn't have templates, it links to 
many useful sites, some of which do.

>(marc, you are right, i'll change the name of that to
>vertbar or something)

Minor point here, but... what happens when you decide you want to present 
the content horizontally?

Don't name the container based on where it is or what it looks like. Name 
it by what it contains. You didn't say #boxontop or #boxbelow did you? You 
said #header and #footer

>( http://devbistro.com/wdf/index2.html ).
>now, the header nav images don't show up but that's
>obviously a different problem i have to tackle.

Why are you putting the images in the background? Seems like you're just 
making life difficult for yourself.

I think they're not showing because they're referenced as 
url(../images/advertise_hover.gif)

Based on the url http://devbistro.com/wdf/index2.html, the absolute url 
that's referencing is http://devbistro.com/images/advertise_hover.gif

Remove the ../ so it'll reference 
http://devbistro.com/wdf/images/advertise_hover.gif

regards.
-marc

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