Web page advice

[Double Trouble]

I have a page that was built using tables for the layout. Working with table layouts and such seems very messy and clumsy to me, I'd like to recreate the page (or something similar) using div's / style sheets. Unfortunately, my skills when it comes to using div's / style sheets (or nice graphics design) are pretty much non-existent.

If one of you has web page design skills and is willing to spend a few minutes looking at the page and how to recreate it (or something like it), drop me a PM.

Thanks!

 

[Tweak155]

I've done this myself a few times. Sometimes tables are just the easiest thing to use, but 9 times out of 10 DIV's are the way to go.

 

[Leros]

It wouldn't be too hard for you to learn basic CSS/HTML. I've started doing some web frontend stuff at work and I had to learn basic CSS/HTML with absolutely zero previous experience. It's really not that hard to do basic layout and design (although the artsy/designer "making it look good" part requires skills).

Google for "css div layout".

 

[the182guy]

Agree with above, google for pure CSS layouts. It's not that hard to pickup the basics, plus there are loads of examples out there. If you're looking for a CSS book, I recommend "CSS Mastery".

 

[hellfreeze]

This is a pretty good site for learning and trying things on the page as you learn:

http://www.w3schools.com/css/

 

[Ken g6]

[thread=2194250]We just went over this[/thread].

But, then again, that was "NOT for beginners." I turned up this page, which looks silly, but gets the message across clearly.

 

[Bulldog13]

I have a page that was built using tables for the layout. Working with table layouts and such seems very messy and clumsy to me, I'd like to recreate the page (or something similar) using div's / style sheets. Unfortunately, my skills when it comes to using div's / style sheets (or nice graphics design) are pretty much non-existent.

If one of you has web page design skills and is willing to spend a few minutes looking at the page and how to recreate it (or something like it), drop me a PM.

Thanks!

If you have already built it with tables, your best bet to recreate it with CSS and div's is to use a CSS grid system. They don't take that long to figure out and layout is very very easy.

I recommend http://www.blueprintcss.org/, but there are a bunch out there.

Essentially, you decorate your divs with different classes and they move around the "grid".

http://www.blueprintcss.org/tests/parts/grid.html