Fri Aug 25 22:21:49 2006
CSS is hard
stay where I put you, element.
Those of you who have been here before will have noticed that I have painted the site a delicate shade of dung. Formatting has happened. A list of links has drifted over to the right. This has been achieved using cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Ignoring the whole manure shades, it is the modern, spiffy way to specify the layout and style of a website. It takes a bit of attention to the markup of the page to make it work well.
The Visual Artist focuses more on content than markup. I spent some time earlier trying to help her with the layout of her place. I couldn't make it do the (eminently reasonable) thing she wanted either. CSS has no 'Put the <DIV>
down, walk slowly away and nobody needs to get hurt' option. It needs one badly. Come back <TABLE>
, all is forgiven.