Archive for 2007-05

CSS Layouts in Dreamweaver CS3 – Multi-Mania 2007 notes

2007-05-29

25-5-2007, 10:30am – CSS Layouts in Dreamweaver CS3 by Stephanie Sullivan

Css positioning has allways been hard. The css starter pages Stephanie created for Dreamweaver CS3 are therefore more than welcome.

Lessons learned:

  • Clearing a float in a non-floated element will clear the floats that are outside that element. So you need to float that surrounding element and optionally give it a with of 100%.
  • Clearing a float can be done with a br, hr or div. I prefer Super simple clearing floats by Anne van Kesteren, but this way is indeed easier to understand.
  • Float drop occurs when a float doesn’t have enough room. This requires you never to use images larger than the column width.
  • Stephanie mentions Creating Liquid Faux Columns, an article from 2004 which I had forgotten all about. Very interesting.
  • Stretchy headers are mentioned. Anice technique in which the background image is wider than it should be. Thus when the width of the design increases you see more of the background image.
  • The CSS Advisor wiki is up and running. Loads of tips there. It’s a great companion to the css-discuss Wiki.

Seeing all this css goodness made me hungry for more. So I created my own three columns fixed width layout. I’m quite pleased with the result. It doesn’t need any hacks except for internet explorer older than version 7.

Multi-Mania 2007

2007-05-24

I’m really looking forward to Multi-Mania tomorrow. See you there!

Vista speedup

2007-05-11

Vista seems to run sluggish sometimes. Luckily there is a cure!

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BlogReader in AsWing

2007-05-11

The AsWing Blogreader was almost as easy to write as the Flex 2 BlogReader it mimics.

Right-click to view source.

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Trace Output on Linux with Flash Player 9

2007-05-06

Tracing on linux is hard. The official docs are wrong and multiple blogs contradict each other.

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