Posted by Andrew H on 01/19/08 18:20

On Jan 18, 6:15 pm, "AGw. (Usenet)" <freder...@southernskies.co.uk>
wrote:
> On Jan 18, 9:29 pm, Andrew H <ahods...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 18, 4:04 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > > Here is a suggestion for a look:
>
> > > <http://netweaver.com.au/alt/andrewHodson.html>
>
> > For that design, if I wanted to use that as say a theme and then
> > create a number of pages with that template, would that require me to
> > use that CSS style page, as opposed to the inline style?
>
> You don't *have* to have the CSS as a separate stylesheet, but it
> would certainly be easier for you. Suppose that you have the
> following pages:
> a.html
> b.html
> c.html
> and you want each of those pages to have the same basic design. If
> you have the CSS at the start of each HTML document, and want to make
> a slight change to your design (by tweaking a colour, for example),
> then you'd have to change the same code in each separate file;
> however, if you have all your CSS in a separate stylesheet, you'll
> just have to make one change in one place, and the formatting used for
> all the files using that stylesheet will be instantly updated. Even
> with just three pages it will save some time when changing your coding
> to just have to do so in one place, and of course it's even more of an
> advantage with more pages. A further advantage of having a separate
> (or "external") stylesheet is that you don't run the risk of
> accidentally making changes to the CSS in one HTML document but not in
> others (or even worse still, making different changes to the CSS in
> different HTML documents).
>
> So, although it's not an absolute rule, it's generally best to have
> your CSS in a separate stylesheet. To do this for your site, you'll
> need to copy dorayme's CSS code from the HTML document, create a new
> file called (say) "stylesheet.css", paste the CSS code into that file,
> and then save it. Note that external stylesheets don't contain any
> HTML code, and they also don't need any fancy stuff beside the CSS
> itself; all they'll contain will just be the CSS rules (in dorayme's
> example, that's everything from and including "body {" to "background:
> #ddd;}").
>
> Once you've moved your CSS code to the separate stylesheet, you can
> delete everything from:
> <style type="text/css">
> to:
> </style>
> in your HTML document, replacing them with:
> <link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
>
> After that, you just need to upload the altered HTML file, and of
> course the new stylesheet as well, and your HTML page will then look
> the same as in dorayme's example. Just add that "link" code to the
> "head" element of any new page you add to your site, and then that new
> page will share the same CSS with the existing page.
>
> --
> AGw.

Just So everyone knows: No I did not pay for Dreamweaver, it is on the
library computers, and really the only benefit I feel it has is the
format highlighting so that I can visualize the layout in the code,
unlike a plain text editor.

I will definitely be creating that CSS file and linking it in the
page. my site just got moved so it is now located at http://216.104.34.66/~jessica5/
for the time being.

Well, hope you all have a good weekend and thanks again.

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