Re: [docbook-apps] [Website] Refining some style issues (CSS?)

Marc

 

I would seriously consider stopping hacking around

with tables to do page layout and move over to

CSS for all your layout and page formatting.  No

more icky spacer.gif's and other such... I have just

(re)done my first site recently and its quite a pleasure

to take all the clutter out!

 

If you have not yet "bought into" use of CSS, I would

suggest reading:

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/journey/

I am happy to supply more links to stories, case studies

etc if you need them.

 

Derek

>>> Marc Baaden 28/10/2003 
09:27:37 >>> 

Hi, 

I am currently trying to achieve the 
following with website: 
Have the whole left side of the page (navigation toc 
+ part below) 
in a different color (black in my case) than the body text. 

My current "achievements" can be seen at eg 

http://baaden.nerim.net/ws/links.html 

http://baaden.nerim.net/ws/cv.html 

Several points remain that I don't quite understand / cannot 
fix: 

- why do both pages (cv.html and links.html) differ in width ? 

cv.html is larger than links.html .. and ideally how to fix 
this ? From 
the xml source the difference is not apparent. 

- how can the black 
background of the toc be continued below, 
eg where the date field is (I have 
already tried a customization 
of the footer, but the problem is that it is 
never the same 
width as above, and furthermore trying different browsers - 

safari, IE, opera, mozilla - yields different results :(( 

- what 
about the very slim but visible (and on some pages larger) 
white line just 
above the banner. Any chance to get the completely 
black ? 

The 
sources can be found at the same site as 
http://baaden.nerim.net/ws/cv.xml 

http://baaden.nerim.net/ws/links.xml 

http://baaden.nerim.net/ws/mb.css 

Thanks in advance for any hints on how to fine-tune the appearance 

of the site, probably either with xsl customization or css tweaking, 

Cheers, 
Marc Baaden 

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