[thelist] [Ooops!] SQL: how can I approach this?

[r937 at interlog.com]

not to worry, frank

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it was thoughtful of you to give the admins the heads-up to delete


and since this was a meta post, i.e. a post about posting, hence off topic,
i therefore owe...

<tip type="style sheet development">

are you considering developing multiple style sheets, for example to give
your site visitors the choice of which colours to view your site in?

start by splitting your style sheet into two -- one to contain all the
basic structural stuff, and another that contains only the parts of the
look and feel that vary

that way, you're not constantly messing up a large single style sheet by
tweaking a thing here and a thing there in the part that varies

for example, consider a variable colour scheme -- the basic style sheet
would have font faces, division class definitions, margins, padding, and so
on, while the second has a few "overrides" supplying colour

i say "overrides" in quotes because of course they do no such thing -- i'm
simply referring to the fact that the second sheet would typically refer to
the same selectors as in the basic sheet, just supplying different
attributes

for example, the basic sheet might have

 h2     {        margin: 0px;
                padding: 0px;
            font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif ;
             font-style: normal ;
            font-weight: bold ;
              font-size: 1.937em ; }

while the second sheet would have

 h2        {      color: #937937 ;
       background-color: transparent ; }

the second sheet -- actually, there are several of them -- isolates the
attributes that change by look and feel

to change the look of the site, just swap in a different colour sheet, and
if a structural change to the site is needed, you make it just once in the
basic sheet -- compare this with the scenario of multiple sheets, identical
in structure, differing only in colours...

</tip>




rudy
one of the many happy admins


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