CSS developer/programmer help
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- move
Good afternoon all,
I am designing a personal portfolio site. And although I know a little DW (I am just getting into div tags/ versus tables. apparently tables are the enemy - lol -) Its imperative that I learn to program a site with CSS functionality, so I was hoping that a developer could show me how to create the site, and oversee the process. It would be a hands-off kind of situation, where the programmer wouldn't have to program anything unless it became absolutely necessary for him to do so. So I guess that the position would be more of a consultation gig. Again, with you not having to step in unless absolutely necessary.
Anybody out there interested? I would prefer that the developer be a chi-town native, but that isn't absolutely necessary.
- acescence0
well, they're not tutorials so much as the fundamentals of css and how it works, uh, kind of important methinks. hacking together dreamweaver's spaghetti code will be far more painful than taking a day to read a book. good luck.
- Yeah, but move is a busy guy. No time for the fundaments.********
- you sure you mean fundaments?
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- Yeah, but move is a busy guy. No time for the fundaments.
- Gordy220
http://www.smashingmagazine.com <--- helpful
- heavyt0
Sounds like you might just need a mentor - someone you can ask a question to here and there, and someone to guide you in the right direction.
if so, give me a holler, i would be happy to help
- Gordy220
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- ambermiro0
move - css is'nt so bad.. just be sure DW does'nt take over all of your design capabilities. I also suggest you download Firebug the extension for ff. http://getfirebug.com/ it changes your life for testing. If you need a mentor i can help too. email away. - i'm in boston.
- move0
Sounds like a good idea to have some mentors on this. I will most definitely be dropping you guys a line soon!!!
- ********0
move, I just got the web assist tutorial about converting PSD files to CSS, learning CSS rules then rebuilding in dreamweaver. It was only $20 and it is much better then anything I have watched on lynda.com
- ********0
CSS is basically just a whole bunch of div tags set inside a giant div tag right?
- move0
I hate to sound impatient, but I kinda am. I would rather have instruction on a CSS walkthroughand then begin building my portfolio site outright. I could spend weeks stumbling through tutorials and not learn how to code correctly.
- i am doing that right now. i just need to build one site then i willl have it down********
- i am doing that right now. i just need to build one site then i willl have it down
- vaxorcist0
CSS is easy in principle, but browser oddities make is a strange art. Sometimes it seems like there are more exceptions than rules when you're starting out.....
My general technique has been to look at the photoshop comp for a minute, then look at a bunch of semi-standard layouts I've worked out in the past and see which comes closest to the phoshop comp. Then I tweek the layout till it's right, rather than start coding CSS divs off the top of my head. If do code off the top of my head, it's often less clean by the time it's done and browser oddities cause kludge code....
Photoshop -> table layout was very easy to do, but these days is considered "illegal" even though it was, well, fast to design, fast to produce and looked fine in all browsers and was easy to teach to students... I used to teach web design at an art college...
I'm in Chicago if you want to say hello sometime..... once you get a few ideas, the rest is easier....
- vaxorcist0
CSS is easy in principle, but browser oddities make is a strange art. Sometimes it seems like there are more exceptions than rules when you're starting out.....
My general technique has been to look at the photoshop comp for a minute, then look at a bunch of semi-standard layouts I've worked out in the past and see which comes closest to the phoshop comp. Then I tweek the layout till it's right, rather than start coding CSS divs off the top of my head. If do code off the top of my head, it's often less clean by the time it's done and browser oddities cause kludge code....
Photoshop -> table layout was very easy to do, but these days is considered "illegal" even though it was, well, fast to design, fast to produce and looked fine in all browsers and was easy to teach to students... I used to teach web design at an art college...
I'm in Chicago if you want to say hello sometime..... once you get a few ideas, the rest is easier....
- sorry about the double post! backspace/return/bac... error?!?vaxorcist
- move0
Thanks alot vaxorcist.