Re: FN-FORUM: Help with CSS

date posted 29th November 2007 12:43


On 29 Nov 2007, at 13:21, Phillip Healey wrote:

>
>
>> I can only strongly recommend that if you are going to truly grasp
>> the
>> finesse of designing with CSS, then you really need to be hand coding
>> and using Semantic HTML as a base on which to apply your CSS.
>
> The whole layout / css is 100% hand coded!
>
> Id be very surprised if you actually had the slightest grasp on what
> the css
> coding is actually achieving and why its structure is so complicated.

LOL.

check my portfolio before you make assumptions about my CSS skills
please.

>
> Actually the average page only has 6 classes in use. Is that an
> excessive
> amount,

it's not the classes, but the fact you're not using the cascade, you
*do* have a table in there and all those spacer.gifs?


> for a site that is able to expand to its content whilst allowing the
> numerous elements to flow and overlap appropriately, without the use
> of any
> tables etc???

If you think it's clever, what you've done, fine.

all I can see is one page and it's not easy to read the source.

don't abuse me for trying to help you please.

;(