G'Day.
I'm a total newbie to CSS, and I've created a standard 3 col layout fixed, fluid, fixed on my home page www.hudsoft.com However it is a mashup of CSS & HTML & I want to convert it to 'pure' CSS.
My problem is the 'concept' - or how to achieve the same result as what I have now... The MENU in col 1 is using a FrontPage (shock horror) INCLUDE to grab a menu.html file, and insert it into the column. (The menu itself uses CSS).
I'm trying to figure out how to set everything up so I can have a basic 'template' which includes the 3 columns, header, footer, plus the 'menu', and then pull in the 'content' into the fluid column in the middle.
Obviously I need to edit the content page to include the styles for fonts, h1, p etc, but what about the 'layout' and the menu system ? Where does this come from ?
I have in excess of 200 pages I have to convert, so the simpler the solution the better.
Yes, I could do everything in FrontPage using a DWT (Dynamic Web Template) but I want to get away from using frontpage & swap to something else eventually.
Thanks, Greg.
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People pay me to do this :)
Your page is not difficult to recreate. Something to get started and to build on:
[HTML]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
html,body{
height:100%;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#leftcolumn{
float:left;
width:225px;
background-color:red;
height:100%
}
#rightcolumn{
float:right;
width:225px;
background-color:green;
height:100%
}
#center{
background-color:blue;
height:100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="leftcolumn"></div>
<div id="rightcolumn"></div>
<div id="center"></div>
</html>
[/HTML]
G'Day and thanks for the reply.
I should have posted a link to my test pages, not the rubbish I'm currently using (sorry).
Creating the 3 columns I have figured out... See:
www.hudsoft.com/csstest/index.html
What I can't get my head wrapped around is how to INCLUDE the menu (which is menu.html) without using a FrontPage include ? (which is how I'm doing it now)...
That's step 1.
Step 2. I have to figure out how to use the 'template' & apply it to the 200+ pages I have on my site.
Step 3. How to remove all formatting (fonts, tables etc) and change things like <b>This is bold</b> to <strong>This is bold</strong> etc etc - however this is really another subject.
Server side includes are not just for FrontPage, which you may know. Here is a list of references and tutorials about them. If you are using Apache, there is one Apache specific link there.
G'Day again Dr Howard or is it Dr Fine ?
Thanks for the link - I've been off & read some examples, and now at least know what shtml files, and
<!--#include virtual="/includes/something.htm"-->
is for...
Effectively, there's no difference in the above to what frontPage is doing for me now (I think). The exception being that FP doesn't force you to use SHTML file names.
Thanks again.
Regards, Greg.
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