Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Making OpenACS useful out of the box

9: Re: Making OpenACS useful out of the box (response to 1)

Posted by Bjorn Thor Jonsson on 06/18/03 02:46 AM

I still use tables and I would like to understand how to use div tags to do layout better. Any examples in the openACS CVS yet? Any pointers to good docs?

I've taken the belive that no design should be done in html, only semantic partitioning with divs, all layout work done in css, and we now live in times where this is a practical option. I haven't obtained the neccessary skill, but here are a few resources I'd like to study better, hope you find them useful:

Netscape DevEdge CSS Central, there are good articles describing the redesign of that website: Netscape DevEdge Redesigns As Standards Showcase and Netscape DevEdge Redesign: CSS
A Web Designer's Journey and other good stuff at A List Apart, like Taming Lists
Tutorial: Web Page Reconstruction with CSS
Box Lessons
CSS Layout Techniques
Learning CSS

11: Re: Making OpenACS useful out of the box (response to 9)

Posted by Jarkko Laine on 06/18/03 10:52 AM

Björn,

Like Lars, I've not found a reliable way for horizontal formatting without using tables.

The markup below:

does only work for so long when the browser window is wide enough for the whole page, but as soon as the user makes it smaller, the latter div drops down to the end of the page. I'm not a css expert, so if there's a way to avoid this, please enlighten me.