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webmaniacal

webmaniacal

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Aug 24, 2006
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Hello all,,,,I have been forced by the nature of my website into the world of CSS. I have been reading and reading on CSS particulary with FrontPage which I am using ('03). Most of these go into headings and styles, etc.

I am trying to create a CSS style sheet that has a top image and a left and a right navigation bar on a black page. I tried creating the page in FrontPage and then copying the code into a .css page and that didn't work. How do I find how to simply create a black page with a top banner and two navigation menus? Does anyone know of a good tutorial that does not focus on styles of headings and text but rather on just the basic structure of a page - I am trying to avoid frames.

Any help would be greatly appreciated....thank you!
 
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CSS does not contain the actuall layout elements only the stylings for said elements. So you would ceate a page, lets call it index.html, that would contain 4 basic objects:

Code: 
<html>
<head><title></title></head>
<body>
<div id=banner>
</div>
<div id=leftnav>
</div>
<div id=content>
</div>
<div id=rightnav>
</div>
</body>
</html>


Then in your CSS file you would have the styings for said objects.

Code: 
BODY{
background-color:black;

}

#banner{
width:600px;
height:200px;
...

}

#leftnav{
float:left;
width:150px;
height:100%;
...

}
...



etc...

What you ant is to create the page and then using the css stlysheet give it is stylings. you give the banner certain height, you make the background black etc....

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where, then, do you tell it exactly what image to use as the banner and what file to use as the navigations?
 
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i'm confused. If i create a css file as above it does not use the banner image or the navigation files. If i do that in each page what is the use of the css file?
 
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That's what include files are for. The CSS file is to centralize your styles for the site, not handle ALL modularization for the site.

Lee
 
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You have a single CSS file that styles your layout, and you include it in evey page.

The rest like links and basic structure, can be in a file called a template, that either calls in the pages, or is included in the rest of the pages .

For the banner image:

Code: 
#banner{
background: URL(location/of/background/in/serverr/)
}



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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
 
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