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html >> css and layers suggestion

by Ad Bec » Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:12:54 GMT

I got a new fetish designing with CSS :) Can you give me few suggestions on how
would you approach buiding somthing like this by using layers and css.


http://www.geocities.com/abasscoms/index.html

Also i like how the Evaluate right side menu on the macromedia's website
changes the background color on mouse over. Can you please tell me how do they
do this? i tried looking at he css class definition for it but i dont see
anything that would make the switch.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/fireworks/?promoid=BINS

thanks!


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html >> css and layers suggestion

by Murray *TMM* » Fri, 30 Dec 2005 05:56:45 GMT


Adjust your fetish to *remove* the notion of layers until you can use CSS to
build a page without a single one. Then you are ready for them.

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html >> css and layers suggestion

by Ad Bec » Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:13:31 GMT

Where did you get the idea that I cannot?

I have buit rather complex stuff so far using layers and css / then css
without layers as you mentioned.

I just want to compare what a true css/layer professional woud have to say and
how I would approach it.



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css and layers suggestion

by Murray *TMM* » Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:28:14 GMT

Layers, by definition, are absolutely positioned. Because they are
absolutely positioned, they are removed from the normal flow. Because they
are removed from the normal flow, the 'shape' of any given layer cannot
affect any other content on the page.

Therefore, a page that is making extensive use of layers to contain text
content may become a quivering overlapping mess when the visitor resizes
their text so that it is larger in the browser.

Besides, the use of absolute positioning as a general rule is rarely if ever
required for most layouts.

That's why I say to forget about it. CSS layout is about so very much more
than 'layers'.

The layout on geocities is a fairly standard 3 column layout. It's not
necessary to use 'layers' to achieve that at all.

You can see a nice example of such a layout here -

http://www.projectseven.com/csslab/testing/minmax/cssp5.htm

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