Sunday, March 11, 2007

Revisions and updates

It may seem as though the site has been somewhat neglected in the last month, but rest assured I've been working hard to address the issues that people have been emailing me over the last few months. The crowd from CSSbeauty.com are some of the most vocal people I've run into through the site, and many of them have a lot of good ideas for clarifying certain aspects of the CSS layout tutorial, as well as fixing my spelling and grammar.

Its roughly a year on since I wrote it, so I've set aside some time to revise the methods I was using a year ago, and re-publish it. Changes will most likely include full HTML/CSS files at the end of the tutorial, an expanded section on making your one page into a functioning site with multiple sections, a printable version, more screenshots, a UL based navigation instead of my dirty DL hack, and lots of clarifications.

I've got quite a lot on my plate at the moment, but the site is just starting to take off, so I've gotta make time for it. Thanks for your patience and your great feedback.

Monday, March 12, 2007 4:51:47 PM (New Zealand Daylight Time, UTC+13:00)
attaboy! your "how to build a page from sratch" tutorial were nice and interesting but, how come you haven't posted the result page? like a lik showing the result? I followed the whole guide whithout creating my own page, so i couldn't see the result. I'd like to see how the menu behaves, but i don't feel like creating that page. you know, i'm italian! ;-)
Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:49:59 AM (New Zealand Daylight Time, UTC+13:00)
It's definitely worth going through the tutorial and creating the code for yourself. I just went to the Enlighten website to get a working version of the demo.
mark
Thursday, March 29, 2007 2:32:50 AM (New Zealand Daylight Time, UTC+13:00)
The reason I haven't published the final code was to encourage people to follow through the tutorial to gain the understanding of why things were working as they do, as oposed to just easily ripping a CSS layout and changing some images (which I do not condone at all).

I'm up to page 7 with my revisions currently, but it does take an awfully long time when I'm trying to fit it inbetween my day job, overtime hours, projects for family members, and having a life :)
Friday, March 30, 2007 2:29:44 PM (New Zealand Daylight Time, UTC+13:00)
Your css tutorial was a lifesaver for me...I had an annoying IE bug where my bullet points were showing up randomly in my side navigation, which was defined using <ul> tags. It was slowly driving me crackers but no amount of searching around was getting me a solution. Today I read through your CSS tutorial and came across your tip to use <dt> tags instead, and presto change-o! it worked perfectly. So simple, yet I'd never come across it anywhere else. So thanks very much.

Although you mention above that it's a "dirty hack"...si there a reason we shouldn't be using it?

[Your contact form isn't working at the moment by the way.]
jean
Friday, March 30, 2007 11:20:34 PM (New Zealand Daylight Time, UTC+13:00)
The revision of the tutorial will see the nav using UL's instead. The problem you're having is that you need to set list-style-type: none; on both the UL and the LI's (both for older browser support).

I just tested the contact form, and it worked fine for me.
Monday, April 02, 2007 11:51:30 AM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)
Hi Steve

list-style-type wasn't the problem on the site, I had both ULs and LIs set that way, it was something weird and unfindable and head-wrecking. The bullet images would just flash up for a second when the page loaded. But your DL fix worked perfectly. Is there a reason not to use DLs?
jean
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