Dreamweaver Ch. 6- CSS December 10, 2007

http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/128b/19/chap_06/abouttea.htm

I had quite some trouble with these exercises.  The background is pictured gray, in the book, around the content, but mine only displayed gray around the content and white behind the main content. I went back and changed it in the code instead of the page properties. Then, in the 4th excercise, my tdLogo wouldn’t change when I did the CSS rule.  Therefore, the right navigation wouldn’t expand correctly.  It appears the logo is being grouped with all the sidebar code.  How do I change that?  Also, when it says to right click the <td> tag, it’s never just <td>, it shows <td#tdNavigation>, then “tdNavigation” is not an option from the Set ID from the contextual menu.

A Dao of Web Design November 1, 2007

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao

 To me, this was a difficult article to follow. I had to further research what Tao is. I have to keep in mind it is balance and harmony.  I like how he makes the annalogy of print to web is like radio to tv. He says how Mac users use 72 DPI & Windows uses 96, but I thought it was all 72 now.  It’s good to be able to design a page in which all people can view, either at a lower resolution or bigger font size. Let them adapt to their settings.  It’s too bad not all browsers support style sheets. How do you know which ones don’t?  If you’re not supposed to use points or pixels, do you only use the header drop-down box? how does each person change their browser settings? I don’t see how to change the percentage. He has a good tip to keep the margins coordinated with the font size.  With having flexibility and loosing control makes the whole design of a website more difficult.