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lellis_sjca
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too much candy (themes and css style sheets) - 1/8/2005 14:28:50
I am a quazi beginner to css; but an very experienced old time frontpage user. Problem is I always feel that I am not very efficient in using css.
Where I am at
I tend to first modify an existing frontpage theme through the theme editor and later on modify the css later in the project.
What I find is frontpage gives me a great start but adds a ton of tags when they create the theme.
Too much candy, where to start?
I don't know what each MS style tag means and spend a lot of time hunting and pecking through the style tags to find what I want and then back out to see how it fits in the theme. This is very time consuming.
Need
What I "think" I need is listed below.
Am I wandering in the right direction or down a rat hole.... looking for pointers from as many of you as possible.
1) I am visual. I am looking for a traditional stylesheet as used in offline print media. Am hoping there is a template (in HTML) that I can load in the site and then browse and see what displays in what format in my css page(s) so I can quickly reference what I am doing.
I can make this myself but hoping there is something out there that I can reuse.
2) A reference card/page to MS css style tags and what each mean. I have a pointer to a great W3G card but am looking for more detail on the more specific ones MS "seems" to have developed.
3) An editor that is mostly focused on css that does this cleanly and easily.
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dpf
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RE: too much candy (themes and css style sheets) - 1/8/2005 14:39:33
well written question! there are many here better equiped than I to answer but my 1 1/2 cents is this..... as I moved towards more css, I found that it was simpler for me to abandon any uage of FP themes. frankly, they seemed to me to be so proprietary that they interfered with my implementation of css. that may not be a given - it may just be that i couldnt figured it out - anyway, i am not a big fan of fp themes. hope that helps a little
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RE: too much candy (themes and css style sheets) - 1/8/2005 18:55:38
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My twin but Mom and everyone else always said you were the good looking one.
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Kitka
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RE: too much candy (themes and css style sheets) - 1/9/2005 5:17:18
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If have to do one more Replace><p align="center"> I'm going to go nuts!
Have you tried using Find and Replace > All pages > Replace All ?
Far quicker than doing one page at a time.
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Kitka
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RE: too much candy (themes and css style sheets) - 1/9/2005 5:29:52
With tables, I select the whole table in normal view, then go to Cell properties and uncheck both height and width, and set alignments to default - zaps all in one go, never mind how different they all are. Then I also do Table properties. But this process, of course, has to be done for each table separately. Still much faster than doing each attribute separately in html though.
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jcrutchfield
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RE: too much candy (themes and css style sheets) - 1/31/2005 17:17:34
Sounds like I'm in the same situation as the original poster.
As I attempt to ask questions about CSS, I quickly formulate my own answers. I need to review and learn the CSS tags. Thanks.
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