Comments for David Anderson's Unfinished Symphony

Comment on Redesign by Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:00:05 +0000

Looks nice, clean lines and clutter free. Ease of use should always be a top priority.

Steve

Comment on Redesign by Jane Levi

Jane Levi — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:45:12 +0000

Redesign looks great, nice use of colouration. Very professional feel to the site. Good work.

Jane

Comment on Style:Phreak's Standard Form Layout Revisited by HTML Forms III

HTML Forms III — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:54:03 +0000

[...] For further information on layouts and how to style and mark them up I recommend reading Style:Phreak's Standard Form Layout Revisited. [...]

Comment on Introduction to the CSS Box Model – part two by Tutorial needed on CSS Box Model

Tutorial needed on CSS Box Model — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:59:35 +0000

[...] version Intermediate version All you ever will want to know about CSS Box Models (dont forget to look at part one of the article [...]

Comment on Introduction to the CSS Box Model – part two by David Anderson

David Anderson — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:54:21 +0000

Hi Jhon,

Without knowing more about what you problem is, my best guess would be that your second rule set has the wrong selector. Your first uses the class .general as the selector, but the second includes the ID of #general instead (and a scan of your home page shows that the class .general is in use, but not the id of #general). So replace the # in the second selector with a . and see if that fixes the problem. If not please post up a bit more information and I'll see what I can do.

Comment on Introduction to the CSS Box Model – part two by jhon

jhon — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:59:20 +0000

hi i am spain. explore I have a problem with the content is not limited as to explore and I can not tell me that you could fix a greeting and I thank my css.
.general { margin : 0 auto 0 auto; width : 790px; } * html #general { margin-left:200px; padding:100px; width : 790px; }

Comment on Tables in the CSS Age by Muay Thai Thailand

Muay Thai Thailand — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:56:04 +0000

Tables are quick, they are simple and they work.

I agree that perhaps tables are not always the best thing, and the days of purely using tables for layouts are long gone, but they still have their uses when it comes to presenting information.

These days I live by a rule that says if I'd use a table in word, or need to use excel, then I'll use a table in the html document.

Comment on Z-index Oddities: Menu dropdowns overlapped by positioned elements by David Anderson

David Anderson — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:43:01 +0000

No problem Andy, I'm glad it helped.

Comment on Z-index Oddities: Menu dropdowns overlapped by positioned elements by Andy Cole

Andy Cole — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:28:09 +0000

Thanks for the articles I used a suckerfish menu in a similar way which was being overlapped by H1's with backgrounds. This article saved me a lot of time in figuring out what was causing this.

Many thanks

Comment on Tables in the CSS Age by David Anderson

David Anderson — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:35:47 +0000

Hi Carlos, I'm not actually advocating the use of tables for layouts but for presenting tabular data. Essentially it's about using the appropriate markup for the content, in this case tables for data. They should be avoided for layouts in favour of positioning with CSS.

If you want to learn how to use CSS I can recommend Craig Grannell's book "The Essential Guide to CSS & HTML Web Design" which I technically reviewed. It'll take you through the basics and on to more advanced topics, giving you a very good understanding of using CSS for positioning.

Comment on Tables in the CSS Age by Carlos @ VPSmedia

Carlos @ VPSmedia — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:09:31 +0000

Great article. You make a good point, tables are seen as the 'devil' nowadays. I have designed all our websites and have implemented alot of tables in them. Mainly because of the lack of 'layers' knowledge.

There should be an article to guide oldschool guys work with

Comment on longdesc, it's not just alternate text by David Anderson

David Anderson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:44:04 +0000

Hi Graham, thanks for the comment. The post is specifically about longdesc and how to use that, and not alternatives. But if there's interest in a follow up covering D links then I can write a post on those too.

Cheers!

Comment on longdesc, it's not just alternate text by Graham

Graham — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:22:15 +0000

Great but what about a d-link to go with the longdesc?

Comment on Naked Day x2 by Internets Was Yes

Internets Was Yes — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:07:41 +0000

This really shows how amazing CSS can make a website.

Comment on Naked Day x2 by web pixy

web pixy — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:40:51 +0000

This is a great idea to have a CSS naked day! It's good to see all those cool looking sites "naked":)