Re: Which page layout?

On 5 Mar 2008 01:02:15 GMT, Bravo wrote:

> I'm fairly new to NOF and have been experimenting with the various page
layouts

Most of the folks around here use CSS with Dynamic layouts.

Then if you need something fixed, you add a layout region and use that to
anchor the content you need in that region in place.

This will almost always work better simply because there are some inherent
differences in IE and other browsers that is not going to go away (at least
in this generation of IE).

One of these is that the default values for a page margin and padding in IE
are not the same as FF/others.

So if you try to use a fixed format - your simply going to end up chasing
your tail from one browser to the next.

Using CSS and Dynamic Positioning will let your sites adapt to the browser
at hand.

If you open the two up side-by-side and there is a slight different - who
cares as long as the site does not fall apart?


;-)

By all means experiment and you may find something that works better for
the type of designs you do, but since you asked I think that most here will
tell you they are using Dynamic with CSS.


Good luck with your projects!

Charles



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I'm fairly new to NOF and have been experimenting with the various page layouts
- you can see the results at http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bravo/

It seems to me that using the fixed layout, with browser compatibility set for
IE4 only (fixed layout 2 on the above test site), gives the best overall results
- though the CSS file clearly needs manual editing to fix the validation
errors.

On 7 Mar 2008 13:36:57 GMT, Bravo wrote:

> Thanks for the advice, Charles. A follow-up question re the CSS errors:
> 
> In all the layouts, 2 basic CSS errors are generated. I could manually edit
the CSS file, but perhaps there are NOF settings that can be changed?
> 
> 1) "hand is not a cursor value" - I can't see anywhere in NOF to
change the value from "hand" to "pointer"
> 
> 2) "only 0 can be a length. You must put an unit after your
number" - anywhere that this can be set to px?

You should not have to edit the file by hand.

The errors sound like a couple of partial CSS entries or a corruption
somewhere in the .NOD file.

Most likely your best bet on that would be to contact WSP support and
arrange to send them a template exported from the site.  Then they should
be able to either fix it or tell you how.

You might be able to fix it yourself by verifying all assets, optimizing
the site, exporting it as a template and creating a new site from that
template. Be sure to make a copy of your .NOD file FIRST!

The only other way I could think of for you to get that error would be if
it was generated by inline CSS that you'd put in or was in some imported
HTML.

Good luck with your project!


Charles



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Thanks for the advice, Charles. A follow-up question re the CSS errors:

In all the layouts, 2 basic CSS errors are generated. I could manually edit the
CSS file, but perhaps there are NOF settings that can be changed?

1) "hand is not a cursor value" - I can't see anywhere in NOF to
change the value from "hand" to "pointer"