I finished my site but, needing to get it done quickly, avoided CSS. Now I’m going to take the time and redo each page using CSS, which I have just started.
I have a very, very general question that hopefully will help me along in this process.
I’ve noticed that I can align things (text boxes, graphic boxes) but when I look at the preview screen they are no longer aligned. Or items which were a distance apart are now on top of each other. Items which were the same size now has one that is larger than the other.
Clearly I need to think about this process in a completely different way.
I guess my question is: what dictates the position and size of items in CSS, since it clearly isn’t WYSIWYG - at least in the same way that it is w/o CSS.
Are you talking about HTML Items (div boxes), or text, or what exactly?
Freeway Pro automatically writes the style code which positions CSS boxes.
Can you post a sample page or screen capture?
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Ernie Simpson
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Mark email@hidden wrote:
I finished my site but, needing to get it done quickly, avoided CSS. Now
I’m going to take the time and redo each page using CSS, which I have just
started.
I have a very, very general question that hopefully will help me along in
this process.
I’ve noticed that I can align things (text boxes, graphic boxes) but when
I look at the preview screen they are no longer aligned. Or items which
were a distance apart are now on top of each other. Items which were the
same size now has one that is larger than the other.
Clearly I need to think about this process in a completely different way.
I guess my question is: what dictates the position and size of items in
CSS, since it clearly isn’t WYSIWYG - at least in the same way that it is
w/o CSS.
This happened before when I accidentally turned on the CSS button with a CSS text field and some graphic boxes created without the CSS button on. I wasn’t sure if that was the problem then.
Here all the stuff in the shots are made with the CSS button on.
But, my question is what am I doing wrong, or thinking wrong about CSS, that results in items “moving” when published away from where I placed them, or aligned them.
You seem to be using table structures to layout your page. Turning the CSS
button on will only affect those structures made AFTER turning it on… they
won’t translate existing structures into HTML Item boxes.
What I recommend is you leave your existing Freeway Pro file intact, and
start your revisit from scratch WITH the CSS button on and using only HTML
Item boxes to position groups of text. You can rob text and graphic content
from your previous FWP file to shorten the design phase. Although I would
recommend taking your time as this will be a learning experience.
Sorry for the late reply
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Ernie Simpson
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Mark email@hidden wrote:
This happened before when I accidentally turned on the CSS button with a
CSS text field and some graphic boxes created without the CSS button on. I
wasn’t sure if that was the problem then.
Here all the stuff in the shots are made with the CSS button on.
But, my question is what am I doing wrong, or thinking wrong about CSS,
that results in items “moving” when published away from where I placed
them, or aligned them.
No problem with the “late reply.” First, it wasn’t late at all, and this is going to be a long term project anyway.
I did my first site, using CSS in a few spots – only by mistake! The plan is to leave it alone and take several months (a year, maybe?) to make a new site (looking virtually the same) using CSS. Fortunately I find it fun solving problems, and decided I’d treat it as a video game. A more productive one at that. Just need a little guidance here and there, and I’m grateful for all I can get.
It appears the issue is that I need to define where the object will sit in the pages in a different way than dragging and dropping. Knowing that helps, actually, and I’ll play with different methods of doing that until they do what I want them to. Maybe shaking my fist at the screen now and then will help?
The beauty is, of course, that I can try all kinds of things and if they don’t work just quit without saving and try it over agin. And maybe post a few embarrassingly elementary questions now and then on this board. And re-read the reference book again and again.
Thanks for your help and input. As always, it’s much appreciated.
