With a full time job, two kids, a book to write, another to edit for a second edition and a daily blizzard of email, sometimes the days go by too fast. Things that don't get always done include spending enough time with my beloved wife, girlfriend and best pal (yes, all the same person), writing music, helping the kids with homework and the XBox (my five year old can beat me most of the time anyway), and writing to people who write to me about my book, Stylin' with CSS.
The blog is here to give those readers a chance to contact me and perhaps each other, and let me rant about whever seems important on an as needed basis.
13 comments:
I just got your book today and wanted to say thanks for making this information available all in the one book and from what I have read so far in such a reader friendly language.
All the best with your next book.
I too am enjoying your book.
One question -
On page 74 you suggest downloading
sample_xhtml_markup.htm
from the Chapter 3 folder.
Several files have the title
but none have the name
sample_xhtml_markup.htm.
Do you want us to use
sample_XMTML_markup_ch1.htm or one of the fig3.xx.htm files in Chapter 3?
Ben - all the XHTML files are in a single download on the Stylin' site - click the nav link labelled "XHTML templates" and you will find all the main DOCTYPES are in there - post and let me know that works for you. I changed all the file references to Fig numbers right before the book as I was writing and a few of these references to the old files remained...
Bjarni- glad you are enjoying the book! Please any comments after you finsish the book - I am working on revisions for the next edition so I welcome you comments. Thanks for posting.
thanx charles for your book, which helps the reader in getting a step closer to authoring the web without errors.
wishing u all success in your future projects!
Hi Charles!
LOVE the blog!
I know you covered this before with me but cant' seem to find the information.
source ordered 3 column layout. Image graphic to create the same size columns. Its not working.
I'll continue searching for the information that you sent to me, I hope I did not accidently delte it!
This time when I find it, it goes into my cheat book ;>)
Thanks agin for being that "missing link" in css for me. You are terrific!
Hey! got it! If all else fails pull out your book ;>)
Just added the second content wrapper, and the image extender, only thing is I did it a bit different and it worked, only used the left graphic, and it extended all way down to the level of the content section.
Just a bit of playing with it. I added a border, but think I went a tad too large on the border, it doesn't match up with the nav section.
Once again, You are one of the greatest guru's of css. BigJohn and you are my two fav's ;>)!
4~CSS!
Charles - sorry, your answer to Ben Bachrach's question doesn't work, and I have the same question. . Page 74, you say to download "sample documents" from the Web site. There's no such thing on the site, or it's invisible! Your answer pointed Ben to the Templates folder, but that doesn't have any sample DOCUMENTS, just the 6 basic DOCTYPES. They certainly aren't what page 74 is talking about - sample texts for experimenting with font selection.
Enlightenment please, Guru!
Thought I posted a follow-up but it hasn't shown? - anyway, the asnwer to the problem in # 7 is to look in the Zip for chapter 1 and bring up: sample_XHTML_markup_ch1.htm
- all set!
John B,
Thanks for mentioning the correct location for the sample_xhtml file, and I have added this correction to the errata on the Stylin' site.
Hello again! Not really an error but a suggestion/question.
As soon as you get into the fluid 3-column with absolute/relative positioning, you no longer need the Aslett float clearing, right? Should it therefore be taken out of the CSS? I found that for example 6.10 I could take out everthing related to Float except for the two lines for the "Guillotine" bug.
Or is it better to keep it in case it's needed somewhere else in a big page - could you have some float elements, for instance, following the basic 3-column area?
Enjoying the book!!
Hi Charles
A big word of THANKS for your book Stylin' with CSS! I've learned so much from your book, and I'm not finished reading it yet! Thank you for your clear writing style and down to Earth practical advice.
I'm slightly disappointed in the number of typos in the book, but that does not obscure the wonderful content. Do you plan to do a second edition to fix the typos?
Many Thanks
James Barberousse
FYI and everyone else's - a reprint of Stylin' with hopefully all, but certainly a great many, of these errors fixed, is being printed right now and should be on Amazon and in bookstores soon...thanks for your positive comments about the book - glad it's helping you. Charles
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