Posted by Chaddy2222 on 10/30/07 06:57

On Oct 30, 10:59 am, Andy Dingley <ding...@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:43:47 -0700, Nick <maxout2001-nos...@yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >With the term of Layers I was referring to CSS Layers.
>
> No such thing.
>
> Years ago, there was a feature called "layers" in some obsolete versions
> of Netscape. It hasn't been supported for years, few used it even back
> then. To use the term "layers" today is either irrelevant and wrong, or
> even worse by being misleading to this other term. Neither way will aid
> communication wilth people who use CSS correctly or usefully today.
>
> > There are many
> >sites out there talking of DIV Layers,
>
> Then they're wrong.
>
> >http://www.dashdev.net/xhtml_css_tutorial_5.htmlfor example.
>
> Ignore that site. It's crap. Pretty much everything it tells you is
> wrong, and the site itself is badly done.
>
> >I know the W3C guidelines change constantly,
>
> Yes, this new "1997" standard is _so_ recent!
>
> >Basically I'm talking about
>
> > <div id="menu" class="menu" align="left">
> > bla bla bla
> > </div>
>
> Ah, the misbegotten spawn of late '90s coding. "New" (10 years ago)
> language features dropped in blindfold with little or no understandign
> to how they ought to be used. This doesn't work at all well.
>
> I'm not going to go point-by-point on this page, there's just too much
> wrong with it. Start again, don't fiddle. But find a good tutorial
> before doing anything! Nearly all tutorials are wrong, so get a copy of
> "Head First HTML" which is by-and-large right.
>
Or more to the point, use Dreamwever in source view.
It has quite a good text editor.
I personally use KompoZer: http://www.kompozer.net a long with Crimson
Editor (with the HandCoder extention).
HandCoder is for KompoZer, it uses HTML tidy.

> As to why your two sites differ under FF, I told you once - their
> doctype declarations are different. The .eu site has a broken doctype
> declaration that makes FF drop back into an IE compatibility "quirks"
> mode.

Just another note to the OP, you will need to actually fix the errors
that the W3C validator throws at you in order for the document to be
valid, just changing the Doctype won't really fix anything. Then once
the docs are valid you will need to tweek the display through the CSS
if any issues arise.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.awardspace.biz

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