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From: "G.G." <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 3, Issue 133
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 19:26:20 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.883.1209625532.15098.freepages-help@rootsweb.com>
I am finding that by using free templates and Kompozer, I can get by with very little knowledge of HTML or CSS, and get professional looking pages. If I need help, there is always the forums at http://www.w3.org/ (the world wide web consortium, who sets the standards for coding) to get me through the problem.
In the process, you learn a lot without having to take courses and you also get nifty websites.
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> Today's Topics:
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> 1. CSS2 - Psuedo Frames & IE8 beta 1 (Barry
> Carlson)
> 2. HTML and CSS References (Patricia Geary)
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> Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 10:35:59 +1200
> From: Barry Carlson <>
> Subject: [FreeHelp] CSS2 - Psuedo Frames & IE8 beta 1
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> While experimenting with CSS2 and utilising its ability to
> create overflow in a div while not specifying the height or
> width of that div, I stumbled over the latest box model bug
> in the pre-release version of IE8 (beta 1).
>
> The standards compliant example I used can be found at:-
>
> http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bristowe/frame/psuedoframe.html
>
> and positions the bottom Rootsweb banner at the foot of the
> open window using CSS. This works in all modern browsers
> that recognise CSS2, with the notable exception of IE8 beta
> 1. However, to overcome the buggy rendering in IE8, I have
> resorted to using the new IE meta tag to tell the IE8
> browser to use the "standards" applicable to IE7.
>
> For those who are playing with the IE8 pre-release beta,
> try changing -
> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible"
> content="IE=7" /> to
> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible"
> content="IE=8" /> and the margin/padding
> conflict will be revealed. Or when using IE8 open -
>
> http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bristowe/frame/psuedoframe8.html
>
>
> The psuedo frame will also work in all IE browsers from
> IE5.01 with the use of javascript to create the div height
> in the IE5+ browsers.
>
> The Lorem text is randomly generated by javascript which
> can be found in the head section.
>
> PS Also tested in Firefox 3 beta 5.
>
> Barry
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:30:04 -0400
> From: Patricia Geary
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> Subject: [FreeHelp] HTML and CSS References
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> For those of you who might be interested in learning more
> about
> writing HTML and/or CSS, check out the following -
>
> HTML Beginner Tutorial - This HTML Beginner Tutorial
> assumes that you
> have no previous knowledge of HTML.
>
> http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/
>
> CSS Beginner Tutorial - The purpose of this guide is to
> teach the
> bare essentials - just enough to get started.
>
> http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/
>
> There is also an Intermediate and advanced tutorial for
> learning CSS.
>
> If you wish to be able to trouble shoot problems with your
> website,
> you will need to learn at least the basics of writing HTML
> code.
> Spend some time exploring the site as there is a wealth of
> information there.
>
> pat
>
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