So I have recently been spending many hours on a project to design a webpage with only CSS. The site I am designing a page for is called css Zen Garden. Have a look and see the other designs posted.
What is CSS you ask?
CSS is the code that you are supposed to use when making your site look good. HTML is for content only. So HTML tells your browser that there are paragraphs, headers, lists, etc. and here is the content that is supposed to be in those.
The CSS code tells the browser everything else.
Here is my design with only HTML
Here is my design with the CSS code applied (warning if you view this in IE6 or below it won't look right...I haven't put any hacks in yet)
Big difference huh? I drew all the images and then told CSS where to put them along with how I wanted the content to look. People used to embed all the styling within the HTML which is very wrong now days. It slows everything up because of all the extra junk code within in the HTML and plus why do it when you can use CSS?
CSS allows you place all the content where ever your heart desires...down to the very pixel if you wish.
A thorn in designers sides is internet explorer 6 and lower. IE6 came out before certain standards for CSS and other things were decided. They assumed one way and wrote it into their code. Well when CSS broke out they assumed wrong and now we have to put hacks into the code so that the viewers see pages correctly.
So if you have IE6 or below get rid of it (delete it). IE7 is lots better, supports png files and even has some of the math correct. Your best choice though is FireFox. It is a opensource browser. Opensource means that anyone can make it better so it stays on top of all the changes to website developing code. Download FireFox for free here.
All of the designers out there would be forever thankful.
M
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As my smart cousin pointed out...you should download FireFox FIRST and then delete IE not the other way around :-)
3 comments:
When Meg says "get rid of IE 6" she really means "delete any and every internet explorer program from your computer and use firefox or some other mozilla browser."
Seriously, with all insecurity of IE (hackers love to attack everything Microsoft) and its incompatibility with modern design standards, no one should ever use it. Plus Firefox is an open source program, meaning that anyone can write programs for firefox and make them available for free. If you want an excellent list of free add-ons for Firefox, visit our friends, Meg and Gabe at their blog. The link is below
http://megandgabe.blogspot.com/2006/09/firefox-extensions.html
-brandon
I love CSS! It does make everything much much better, and faster. The sites look good Meg! (Have you tested your pages on Safari as well? I know quite a number of people using Macs now...)
While IE 7 has *better* support for CSS...it still sucks! lol.
Umm, you should probably let people know to download Firefox first, and then remove IE from the desktop and the start menu...hehehe. (It seems like a no-brainer, but you'd be surprised...)
I just renamed our wireless network "kill whitey". We're within range of about 15 other networks around here, so perhaps they will be enlightened as to our attitude concerning whitey.
Homework sucks, and is why I'm up late. Hope everything is going well down in Opposite Land.
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