[UPHPU] More CSS frustration

[Victor Villa]

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From: uphpu-bounces at uphpu.org [mailto:uphpu-bounces at uphpu.org] On Behalf Of
jtaber
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 11:24 PM
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Subject: [UPHPU] More CSS frustration

I thought I would make some design changes to our web pages  and clean 
up some of the CSS away from absolute positioning (which seems risky on 
cross-browsers and fonts) and is a real pain every time you try to 
rearrange stuff.  But although I'm trying to keep everything simple, 
after the entire weekend, I've got a mess on my hands.

Now I notice that most web sites are using CSS so I've been bound and 
determined to get it right on our site.  Trying to follow stuff on "A 
List Apart" just seems to lead into trouble - heck even "vertical-align" 
just isn't working right - much less not even testing it on non-Firefox 
browsers.  I realize CSS offers more control over tables but is it 
really worth it ?  This could have done this less beautiful in several 
hours with tables though I realize good appearance is critical on a web 
services site.  Are the bigger sites just throwing money at it and 
hiring CSS "gurus" that know all the little tweaks, etc (this doesn't 
seem to be a cost effective approach to our low funded effort).  How are 
others on this list doing fairly bulletproof CSS ?  Is there some 
relatively easy way or guide that we should use or should we just use 
tables until some later day if ever?

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John,

I've been able to migrate over to CSS.  It has definitely been hard, but in
the long term has been beneficial.

The book that has helped me the most is the Zen of CSS by David Shea.  The
online reference I use the most is w3schools.com's section on CSS.

If you can send the list a picture of the site and places your having
trouble, we could help you transition.

mS