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I have frontpage but how do I make hi quality css.

i dont think frontpage does css for u but anyhow try www.htmlgoodies.com they have all sorts of things javascript, html, css and more

ACEHTML does a lot, and it is free.........Dreamweaver is nice too.

Webmonkey has lots of good tutorials for beginning and advanced CSS. I would stop there first before going anywhere else. O\'Reilly also has an excellent book devoted to the subject, but that will set you back $25-30.

There are several excellent online tutorials. Following are two of the better ones:

Dave Raggett's Adding a touch of style (W3C)
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style.html

WDG (Web Design Group) CSS page
http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/

And here are three definitive references:

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) CSS1 Specification page
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) CSS2 Specification page
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/

Zvon's CSS1 Reference page
http://www.zvon.org/xxl/css1Reference/Output/index.html

James Pickering
Tucson, Arizona

Tools for Web Page Authors: http://www.brazilcacticult.org/wf.htm

~ Validated XHTML 1.1 & CSS2 (Cascading Style Sheets)
~ Accessible to People with Disabilities

Addendum to my previous posting .....

A major premise of CSS employment is that the using pages must contain valid HTML/XHTML.

In general, WYSIWYG automatic code generators such as MS Front Page do not produce valid code. They also do not provide DOCTYPE/DTD constructs (or the ones they provide are not correct) to head the page which is required in order to use the Validators.

For detailed information on this, visit:

http://www.brazilcacticult.org/wf3.htm

James Pickering

Tools for Web Page Authors: http://www.brazilcacticult.org/wf.htm

~ Validated XHTML 1.1 & CSS2 (Cascading Style Sheets)
~ Accessible to People with Disabilities

the code dreamweaver spits out isn't any better than FP2000.. way too much code for simple tables/columns... one mill-yun meta tags.. etc...

Hey James, we may have some questions for you once we get the xhtml finished and start working on css and then bobby... there's one bug in the xhtml we haven't been able to fix yet having to do with refreshes in cgi with ; in the url.

I want to reemphasize the necessity for pages to have Valid HTML/XHTML before applying Style Sheets. All pages should be run through a reliable HTML/XHTML Validator and invalid code (tags) corrected. In addition, XHTML pages should be run through an XML syntax checker -- just to be sure they are well formed.

I provide links to recommended Validators (ones that utilize correct Document Type Definitions - DTDs) and the O'Reilly XML Syntax checker on my Validating, Checking and Analyzing page ....

http://www.brazilcacticult.org/wf3.htm

..... the WDG (Web Design Group) Validator is particularly useful for it provides batch Validation of entire Web Sites at one fell swoop.

For those interested in what is "coming down the Pike" in CSS, visit the W3C CSS3 Working Draft page at .....

http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-roadmap-20010406/

In reply to Allen .....

I will be glad to assist.

James

Tools for Web Page Authors: http://www.brazilcacticult.org/wf.htm
What is Accessibility all about? http://www.brazilcacticult.org/wf4.htm

~ Validated XHTML 1.1 & CSS2 (Cascading Style Sheets)

~ Accessible to People with Disabilities

We must not lose sight of the fact that good WCA (Web Content Accessibility) practices require that pages render satisfactorily in graphical Browsers with Style Sheets turned off.

The W3C WCAG 1.0 guidelines and U.S. Government Section 508 Accessibility standards require this. Visit the following pages .....

http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/wai-pageauth.html

http://www.brazilcacticult.org/us508.htm

..... for detailed information.

JP

Tools for Web Page Authors: http://www.brazilcacticult.org/wf.htm
What is Accessibility all about? http://www.brazilcacticult.org/wf4.htm

~ Validated XHTML 1.1 & CSS2 (Cascading Style Sheets)
~ Accessible to People with Disabilities

When they say "style sheet", are they referring to a linked style sheet? Or css in general, linked, inline, or grouped at the top?

And when they say "viewable", does that mean "looks the same with or without" or "readable, tho it may look funny"?

I also have some questions regarding what is prolly basic css, so I should most likely start another thread regarding css for the ubb...

"Style Sheet" is just your styles, in whatever way you choose to use them. Makes no difference in this instance.

I take "viewable" loosely to mean readable, but if people are using even semi-current browsers (NS4, for ex.), they should be able to at least make the page out.

Saw your other thread, replied.