Where Can I get .CSS files ? Can you help me with yours? 4

[Deadline]

Hello..
How are you?

Do you know where I can download some very well planned

.css

files to use it right away ?
Or if you can spare your .css that would be fine too. Thank you...
RR

 

[yandso]

I don't think that this will work so well for you. A style sheet is usally indivdualized for a specific page or site. And you would more than likely still have to edit your page to make it work. If however you are in need of some help with .css you could search for css at downloads.com for a css editor.

Roj

 

[Deadline]

Roj..

Thanks. But currently our site works without any Stylesheets. All done manually using FONT tags et al. Thanks to my predecessor who decided that way.. Something is better than nothing, agree ?

Now I want to implement a stylesheet for these pages. But I know I need to be more creative to get some impressive results. Since we lack time, we thought we could download some off the Net, but could only find CSS design tools, but not the CSS itself.

Thank you...
RR

 

[yandso]

The reason that you will not find very much on css is because it is basically just a script language that is included in a persons page. However if you find a page that has some nice use of style you can view the source and see where they are keeping it. Then just put that address into your browser and you will download there style sheet. Now I don't know how ethical it is but if you are just looking for ideas and syntax I don't see where it could hurt.

Roj

 

[Trevman]

The w3c has released some core styles that you can use. They basically just style some of the common elements in a common way. They can be very useful.

You can find a better description and download them at

http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/

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[Boomerang]

Try these :

http://www.pageresource.com/dhtml/index.html

http://www.wsabstract.com/dhtmltutors/css1.shtml

Erik

 

[dilettante]

Another problem is that the original concept was that a stylesheet would merely modify and enhance the basic HTML layout tags.

So you could use a page formatted with <H1> and <P> and <PRE> and <TABLE> (and the rest) - and simply swap stylesheets to get a whole new look.

The reality is that to get the most out of CSS you have to realize that pages just aren't made the way God intended, as a simple hierarchical &quot;document.&quot; By this I mean something more like Word documents than like Publisher documents.

Since the web looks a lot more like Publisher output today, with pages divided up with complex arrays of banners, navigation strips, sidebars, etc. etc. this simple concept of CSS just didn't cut it.

VERY rapidly things like style classes were added, which means that stylesheets are typically very customized to a page layout and implement ad hoc style classes which must be used within your HTML elements.

You could have 100 stylesheets that could all be successfully applied to one HTML page, but all 101 files would have to conform to the same style class naming conventions and semantics.

So I'm afraid you can't just grab a stylesheet like one might grab a FrontPage Theme and apply it to a given set of HTML pages. Even FrontPage themes use a predefined set of classes and predefined uses for those classes, along with the other items (images, layouts) used to make up the whole &quot;theme.&quot;

Sorry, but I don't think you're going to find anything besides ideas (still a good thing) in other people's CSS files. For example you might find a set of font sizes and faces that work together on a page, or a color scheme, or something like that.

Don't give up trying though - there is a lot to be gained by reading other people's work.

 

[Deadline]

That was from the SOURCE.. Thanks diletantte. I completely agree with you, and I am going to search and use for ideas only, from people's websites.

http://www.w3schools.com

had a nice one. I got some useful ideas from theirs.

Many Thanks Again... Thank you...
RR

 

[dilettante]

Your original request sounds like a great idea for a web site though...

A source for a set of documentation about how to lay out the HTML, what classes to use, etc...

AND THEN have a whole raft of interchangeable .CSS files for downloading that conformed to those standards, which would be able to radically change the look of the pages - but in pleasing combinations (colors, font faces and sizes, cell-dimensions for table-based page layouts, etc.).

Then include button and banner images, and template pages for various layouts and navigation styles.

Oops! I think I just reinvented FrontPage themes!

Of course I did say pleasing, so maybe I didn't reinvent themes after all. ;-)

 

[Deadline]

I agree with you on &quot;Pleasing&quot;. Do you think Microsoft use Front Page themes at all anywhere in their monstrous website ?? Its only for us not for them, what do you think?

How about you starting and managing such a website and sharing the profits with me ??

;-)

Thank you...
RR