Monday, September 06, 2004
I stumbled upon this site today - looks like a pretty useful little tool. It allows you to choose a layout (full page, 2 column or 3 column), the spacing, size of the sidebars, etc and then spits out the CSS file that will produce that site design. A big time saver as it appears they've already done their best to ensure compatibility across different browsers. From their site:
"Select a layout type, width, and other options to the left, and then click Download or View and pick up your multi-column CSS layout starter kit (turning it into something unique and beautiful not included). You're welcome to use the resulting generated layouts for any purpose, personal or commercial."
http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/layoutomatic.php
I'm getting ready to change the look and feel of RoudyBob.NET yet again. In the process, I decided to go through and clean up the CSS that currently adorns this site and release it - as many of you have requested. The skin now looks the same in Firefox, IE and Safari after many hours of cursing and frustration with IE's inability to properly render CSS like the rest of the world does. Perhaps one day we'll all get along. Now that I know some of the hacks to get things to look the same, I'm planning to spend some time and fix some of the skins I've previously built that look just plain awful in anything but IE. It's not fair of me to play favorites... ;-)
For those of you that are interested, I've added the skin to the list I maintain on this site. Please feel free to take and customize to your liking. Enjoy.