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grr. something's missing

ritaxis: (face)
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 04:02 pm
SO I thought the way to learn how to make a web page is the old fashioned way -- like any art student does -- copying the source and playing with it until I understood what was going on. And I found a nice simple three-column layout and I copied the source into my old Dreamweaver Ultradev 4 and all of the formatting disappeared. It's still in the source, but it sdoesn't show at all in the browser (what's worse is that I can't even get IE to open it. Mozilla opens it, Dreamweaver opens it, but it's unformatted.

Clearly I'm missing something. There's some little signal or other that should be obvious but it isn't to me, that tells the browser "hey, there's some formatting connected with this!"

On other fronts. still no word on any of the things that are out there. I should dash off another story so I'll have something else to put in the mail and never hear from anybody ever again about. It'll be a month at least before Afterwar is ready to send out into oblivion.

On still other fronts, for the second time in a week I was able to gather enough strawberries and blueberries that between them they could garnish a bowl of cottage cheese for the nice fellow. The grapes and apples, however, have a ways to go.
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css questions

ritaxis: (Default)
Saturday, July 2nd, 2005 11:48 pm
Here is the layout I would like to use for the index page for Bella and Chain. Nice and clean, right? To the left of the leftward bike chain will be the links to the chapters. To the right of the rightward chain will be a description of the project. Between, the current chapter.

As I understand things, to make the page readable by the most people possible, the three areas of the page should be set in percentages relative to the width of the browser area the reader is using. I almost understand how to do that using the css block things. I'm getting there.

But see what's happening at the top of the page? I want that wheel to overlap with the chain just like that. So far I think that the chain is a separate image from the wheel and title, so that the chain can repeat-y down the page. But I want the wheel to be in that position relative to the chain no matter what the width of the screen is. If I set the chain at 20% from the left, and I set the wheel at 5% from the left, and the screen gets wider, the wheel moves to the left relative to the chain: if the screen gets narrower, the wheel moves to the right relative to the chain. Can I anchor the wheel image to the chain instead of relating it to the box or the screen?

Alternately, if I set the side bits to absolute measures, and anchored the chains and the wheel to some number of pixels or ems from the left (and from the right for the rightward chain), would the center box with the current chapter still accomodate different sized browsers?
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