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Subject:	Re: New homepage for LUGNET
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general
Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2004 02:52:15 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Gary Thomas wrote:

It may be off topic, but I think it would be very cool if the site was designed using CSS layout, i.e. no nested tables. A great example site is:

http://www.csszengarden.com

It would make site development very straightforward, and allow people to switch look and feels very easily.

I agree with Gary, except for one big thing.

Precise CSS positioning that’s cross-browser compatible (IE, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, Mac) is a pain royalé, sitting right next to impossible. I’ve done it and it’s nuts. Unless you don’t care if your stuff is misaligned by five pixels or so, you’re guaranteed a long, frustrating coding session. What looks terrific in IE is a shambles in another browser.

OTOH, if you *do* get it to work, it looks spectacular. :)

-Mike

Message has 2 Replies:

		Re: New homepage for LUGNET
(...) I agree: Don't Do That. The web isn't a brochure-display mechanism. (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)

		Re: New homepage for LUGNET
(...) Very true, but I've found that simply specifying the correct doctype for pages works like magic, at least on modern browsers: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "(URL) Using this works amazingly well - the results (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)

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		Re: New homepage for LUGNET
(...) It may be off topic, but I think it would be very cool if the site was designed using CSS layout, i.e. no nested tables. A great example site is: (URL) would make site development very straightforward, and allow people to switch look and feels (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)

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