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Posted by Stan McCann on 11/23/64 11:43
sorry.no.email@spamsux.com wrote in
news:pmpf22lhcd2gpdf79spt4egbfed0rp5p4n@4ax.com:
> Hi,
>
> I am converting my father's family history over to XHTML from a
> very
> daggy frames look. I am not a professional designer and this is my
> first shot at XHTML (aided by Dreamweaver 8).
Why XHTML? See http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml. There's plenty
more out there with a bit of searching.
> Can someone please look at the first page and see if I am on the
> right track? Only bare bones there as yet but once the page is set
> it will be a template for another 50.
> http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/test.html
>
> I started from a an older template provided by Macromedia:
> http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/tableless_layou
> t.html I love the #content element with right side %.
I was rather surprised that both your XHTML and CSS validated due to
your mention of using Dreamweaver. Did you have to manually tweak the
code? Many WYSIWYMG (What You See Is What You *Might* Get) editors
fail to produce valid code. What you have there looks better than
expected.
Things to consider:
You have not set a background color for the body and I see no
background image. Even when using a background image, the background
color should be set for those that may have images turned off due to
slow dial up connections or whatever. Looking at your page right now,
it has a purple background. Your background image seems to be
misplaced.
Take a close look at your style sheet and see that you set a particular
font over and over. Setting it for the body could let you set it once.
The same with color and possibly some other settings. Set things once
in the body if everything is the same.
Your navigation width is set in pixels. Sometimes that is most
appropriate, but consider using % or em.
With that start, you can easily add header and footer blocks if
desired. I'd say yes, you are on the right track.
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