I've spent the last couple of days getting the "look" right for my website Junee Magic. I'm feeling quite proud. First I drew up a plan of what went where on my site. Divs within divs. Not unlike tables nested within tables but the code is about 100 times less than with tables. The only problem I had was positioning the header divs, but I've got something that I can live with. I need to check it on a higher resolution screen, because 1 div which is a fixed position, will probably look funny. (Must take a note to do that.) The CSS stylesheet is a work in progress, and as I get to each new div on the page, so I go back to the stylesheet to see how it all looks. And I'm doing it all in a text editor. There's no better way to learn to code than to do it by hand. Much like your favourite hand-knitted jumper, there's personal satisfaction in a website you know you've poured your heart into.
I've also done alot of internet searching for styles that work. One I was disappointed in was the Expanding Links on LMT. The code worked fine, but it was no longer valid XHTML. I spent most of yesterday fine tuning to get one page validated. Finally I settled for a purely CSS navigation, that although isn't expandable, it looks pretty cool, and I can customise it for each page. You can check my progress if you like, I've uploaded a couple of pages in a test folder to get validation. So far I've only completed 7 pages, mostly top-level, and once they're all "correct" I can use templates.


Hi Toni, I don't know why the expanded list code doesn't validate. It does on my sidebar, but not in the standalone TOC page. I think I tried to figure it out at one point and gave up. Oh well!
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