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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/10/05 18:36
Tony Cooper wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:29:49 GMT, "Jonathan N. Little"
> <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
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> (snipped well-explained illustration)
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>>You are all done. That alone should sell you on the concept.
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> Gotcha. The nutshell summary is that when working up long and complex
> sites, CSS allows you to group styles and make changes in one place
> rather than having to make changes at every instance of the style.
> Right?
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> That's a good point for the person that is now, or might be in the
> future, creating large and complex sites.
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> In my case, I see it as a good reason to prepare myself for something
> I might want to do in the future. My enthusiasm, though, is a bit low
> since I can't think of anything large and complex that I want to
> present.
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> I do appreciate the information, though.
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>
Well actually it can be quite helpful for more modest endevors like your
personal page. Use HTML only for your content and structure so that you
can focus on spelling, grammer and stuff. Have your strucure so that say
you use a DIV to contain and associate related bits like thoses
captions and descriptions for images.
<div class="snapshots">
<img>
<div class="caption">...</div>
<div class="aboutit">
<p>stuff...</p>
<p>More stuff</p>
</div>
</div>
Then later you can use CSS to decide whether the picture captions should
be big or small, or if you want the images on top and the description
text below, or maybe images to left and text to the left! You can do it
without changing and of the HTML.
BUT, if you put the works in a table and you have the image in one cell
and the text in another cell in the same row and to the left then your
only option to change the layout is to put the text to the left or below
is change all the HTML. Something we were unable to convey to someone
else in a very protracted thread...
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Take care,
Jonathan
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