Share & Enjoy

Very nice…

Please, a 3 column layout.
Merry Christmas – Happy Hannukah!
Rox

Big mistake showing an absolute positioned layout to beginners. AP layouts are fine if you know your content is never going to grow past the 440 fixed height of the content div, but if it does then you have to reposition everything below it. You make it sound so easy to layout a basic site, but with AP you know this can get messy very fast. You should have explained this at the beginning of your tutorial in my opinion.

new2css,
body{margin:0;padding:0;}

You can do it in cs3 just slight differences, josh.

Again, this is just one method to start getting peoples heads around how you can create a layout, its not meant for every situation, but again thats not the scope of the tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

Are there more tutorials by Mr. Blake available?

Wow what a help this was, thank you.

Ian: centering the divs is actually quite easy, just skip the absolutely positioned stuff. and add the following CSS to each div:
clear: both; /* Keeps the elements vertical */
margin: 5px auto; /* The 5px is top and bottom, the auto centers horizontal */

were is it

Thank you for this tutorial! I’m learning Dreamweaver on my own and this was an excellent explanation on how to create a layout.

Simple and to the point. This tutorial helped me get over my dreamweaver block a bit by just doing it. Thanks bunches!

This was a wonderful tutorial. Just tremendous. Could you please complete it with all the added fill-ins.

Thanks so much for what you have shown so far.

Very useful for biginners!

Thanks great tutorial!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks GREAT

Tried this with CS4 but there is no “Advanced Selector Type” so I used “ID (Applies to only one HTML element).”

My content (an swf) centers horizontally, but NOT VERTICALLY, does anyone else have this problem and is there a solution?

Thanks,
Emily

thanks! very clear and helpful.

Is there any way of centering the whole page? I have done my divs separately as you did.
Thanks

wow! fantastic!
hats off …………………… Geoff!

Thanks

I have to agree with Chris and the others….I don’t mean to come across negative, but using the “Draw AP Div” tool is a really disruptive way of creating CSS layouts. Absolute positioning is something you want to use sparingly, not for every DIV. When you do apply AP to every DIV, you run into problems.

I appreciate the time this author took to create this layout, but I think there are better ways of handling this.

I prefer working solely in CODE view and forget doing CSS in Design view. You learn more in Code view!

Thanks,
Rob

Interesting tutorial!