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[Clandestine]

alright how do you make a layout that your draw in PhotoShop, and make it CSS, or is the point of CSS is to not use alot of images? I keep hearing CSS! CSS!! CSS!!! so it cuaght my attention and now i want to make my site CSS, and i dont want it to look all plain with just color and text. So i want to make this layout http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/cla...ns/layout06.gif CSS is that possible? Or is CSS just no images or if there is just a couple.

Thank you

[rc69]

Anything is possible with CSS. That particular image would be quite easy in CSS.
You can look at http://alistapart.com for a ton of info on CSS and multi-column layouts.

As for images, theres no difference. You would use the same amount of images for a CSS design, as you would for a table design (so long as you didn't use photoshop to slice it...), except that CSS would lower the file size (due to how many things you can change at once, vs. defining the same style thousands of times for every little thing).

Edited by rc69, 15 December 2005 - 05:58 PM.

[AnDy89]

i use CSS mainly for compatability. I make webpages with a LOT of graphics and still use CSS. You often see people saying things not being compatable eg the recent firefox 1.5 upgrade and css (pure css, no tables) often is still compatable.

[Clandestine]

css is just used so that its basically just 1 page, and sinces its like a root page or soemthing it doesnt have to load every single page, kinda like iFrames? and makes everything load faster? cuase i still dont get why people use css. can someone please explain in detail what css is used for i would really appreciate it

thanks a bunch

Edited by Clandestine, 15 December 2005 - 07:12 PM.

[d7x]

CSS is nothing like tables or iframes.

What people fail to reliaze is that CSS doesnt not make your layout! It just styles it, it doesnt create boxes just by using a simple css code... All CSS does is styles your webpage. Sure you can make something look like a box by using some of its features but you cannot make a box with just a css code.

To make divs (aka tables pretty much). Use the code:

<div id="name"> Content </div> (my personal fav is id)

Now you can add style to that by using:

#name {
background: #000;
}

Or something along the lines of.

Now CSS tends to load faster. Its also very clean and easy to read in the source of a webpage than tables.

[Clandestine]

do you guys know any tutorials that can show me from step one to the end of CSS, becuase i dont have any clue on CSS, and i want to learn. Any help would be awesome

[coolaid]

to create your first css layout: http://scudworkz.com...s/firstwebpage/

[AnDy89]

http://www.pixel2lif...html_tutorials/

[coolaid]

AnDy89, on Dec 16 2005, 10:24 PM, said:

http://www.pixel2lif...html_tutorials/

the thing about that is most of those tutorials deal with portions of sites wich would be usless by themselves.

[Clandestine]

alright i just did that tutorial, so div's are kinda like tables

when i slice my webpage, would i slice it just like i would if i was just going to put them in tables?

Edited by Clandestine, 16 December 2005 - 06:37 PM.

[Clandestine]

solved

Edited by Clandestine, 16 December 2005 - 09:55 PM.