[CS-FSLUG] CSS and Web Standards

[Nigel Ridley]

Chris Brault wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been toying the PHP and CSS for a while now. At
> one point, I simply decided to move from graphical web
> designing software to making pages by hand. Not that I
> have anything against a good drag-and-drop web design
> program using templates, but I felt that a proper
> understanding of the underlying code would help create
> more efficient pages. Well, in the process of trying
> to code pages by hand, I was forced to read alot about
> proper web design. I couldn't believe what a
> difference some small changes can make.
> 
> It took a bit, but I finally began to understand web
> design. Now, it's not that all at once I understood
> complementry, analogous or tritone colors based on
> Gestalt, but after a while, these ideas began to sink
> in. Things like eye movement and even the maximum
> width of a column started to become important in any
> design. 
> 
> How did all of this begin? I started using Cascading
> Style Sheets. Unfortunately, not every browser these
> days supports the CSS standard. IE, for example,
> simply refuses to support anything beyond basic CSS.
> It's a real drag when designing.
> 
> I hate having to use tables for formatting or inline
> markup crap or meaningless java script just so I can
> work around an IE only problem. You figure after SP2
> that IE would have come up to par with accepted web
> standards. Nope ... they are still working on it (It's
> like Longhorn for a web browser, all sparkle and no
> real changes). 
> 
> Anyways, just a rant about having to dumb down web
> pages because IE won't support W3C standards. If only
> there was full Firefox support for plugins ...
> 
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Chris,

I too have been looking at and studying css (and xhtml) and am amazed at 
the design possibilities that they offer.
I did buy a book:
Web Designer's Reference:
An Integrated Approach to Web Design with XHTML and CSS
(http://www.friendsofed.com/books/1590594304/)

from Amazon and have found it to be a great help. It even has a section 
on getting around IE difficulties.
The author is a standards freak and so there are no "Best viewd in X 
browser" stuff at all.

If you want to compare notes or problems, perhaps we can help each other?

Blessings,

Nigel

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