__/ [ William Tasso ] on Friday 17 March 2006 22:37 \__
> <ant123@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hi all.
>
> How do you do?
>
>> I am quite new to this web site malarkey thingy and I have been
>> building sites using Dreamweaver and frames. I now know not to use
>> frames for various reasons and have begun using layers instead.
>> My questions : What are the pro and cons of using layers?
>
> wrt: web documents .... What is a layer?
>
>> Also I designed my site with my PC monitor resolution set to 800\600.
>> Yesterday I loaded the site from a PC set to 1024\768 and everything
>> was stuffed. The images were all on one side, obviously the site was
>> loading as it had been designed 800\600. I shall be Googling for
>> solutions but if you have any suggestions please post.
>
> I suggest a return to basics.
>
> Please throw away any books, software, colleagues &c. that have given you
> the false impression that designing for the web is an extension of
> designing for print.
>
> If you were my student I'd make you design an entire site in notepad as
> punishment - but there are better editors. I use textpad, there are many.
>
> First write your content as if you were submitting a
> report/essay/news-story. Then add semantic markup <p>, <hx>, <ul> etc.
>
> Only when you have a document that says what it means to say should you
> consider the 'look and feel' appropriate in some browsing situations.
>
>> Thanks.
>
> np & good luck
Good post, William.
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