Need help with my first CSS

[cdunavent]

Hey guys...

I'm hoping that someone with some time on their hands can help me out here. I am building (what I hope to be) a fairly basic webpage for a 2005 NFL football pool. You can see what I have so far at

http://www.frontiernet.net/~cdunavent/.

What I need to do at this point is create pages like the one I mentioned above for all 17 weeks of the season. Picture, if you will, the page above with links to each week at the top. Obviously, I guess I could spend the time and create 17 different html files, with links in each one that link each other together.

That sounds like a ton of work, and my guess is that CSS could make my life a whole lot easier. Problem is, I have no idea where to start. I have never used CSS, and it has been years since I have played around with HTML.

I used MS Frontpage for the page above, but also have DreamWeaver MX. Could someone please help me get this project started? If someone can help me setup the first couple of pages, I am sure I can figure out the rest.

Thanks!!!

-cd

 

[cdunavent]

P.S. If someone could help me set my page up like this

http://www.runyourpool.com/samples/confidence/confidence_picksheet.cfm,

that would be AWESOME!!!


-cd

 

[cdunavent]

P.S.S...sorry guys...I totally thought I was in the HTML/CSS section when I submitted this question.

Sorry!!!

-cd

 

[kaht]

First off it's probably best to tell you that you're asking this question in the wrong forum. This forum is for javascript, you'd be better off asking in the HTML/CSS forum:

forum215

However, I could probably save you some time of having to post there by giving you a little information about tek-tips...

The primary goal of tek-tips is to provide a place for work professionals to come and ask technical questions of other work professionals about questions they have related to their job. This usually means any one individual will be working on a project, and either run into an error or get stumped by a design question and need to get some advice.

Since your question initially appears to be not work related at all it doesn't really fall into the scope of what tek-tips is about. However, people have been known from time to time to help out others on tek-tips that were having problems with projects not related to work, but usually under those circumstances the individual has already got a working piece that they just need to find the last piece of the puzzle to solve.

You have provided a link to a page and asked us how to put CSS into your page to make it look more like another page. This suggests that you know nothing about CSS and have no working CSS code that we can evaluate and give suggestions on how to improve. Instead it sounds like you should really start from the beginning and buy a CSS book or study online tutorials to get associated with CSS concepts in the first place, and then if you have something specific that you don't understand then we would all be happy to help you out.

You can try posting your question in the HTML/CSS forum, but it's likely that you'll just get a response similar to the one I've just posted.

-kaht

...looks like you don't have a job, so why don't you get out there and feed Tina.

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

Here's a suggestion.
Why don't you get a copy of FireFox and add the Aardvark extension.
Then you can look at these wesites you find so impressive and easily see how they've structured them.
It's not a bad idea to have a number of browsers available to test with anyway to ensure your site is clean and reliable and FireFox is probably one of the best around.




(slowly healing) Trojan.

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

I think also you really need to consider the server side of what you are trying to do.
What happens when someone creates an account? Where are their details stored and how?
You will probably need some kind of server and database and server side programming language to process the data with.
If you go that route then the database can hold the data for all 17 weeks of the season and the page the user actually sees could (and probably should) be dynamically generated.
I think you need to look at Perl or PHP and maybe MySQL.
You have a big task on your hands here if you have little understanding of these things.

Good luck.



(slowly healing) Trojan.