CSS Integration

[bundio]

Tableless pain

I am porting a client over to a tableless design. I have just run into a problem with the NETQOUTEVAR:PRODUCTDESCRIPTION in Act_PRoductLine.html, I have rewritten it. The problem is the <P> tags that are embedded are causing me issues with a bacground style in the div. Is there a place I can change those <P> tags to <br/> or get them to add closing tags after the text and link? The problem is in Firefox. FYI I am planning on implementing a DHTML based pagination also. "When" I finish I would be happy to share it.

Dan

[cdicken]

I think all you need to do is go to 'Design | Options | Miscellaneous' and select 'Use <BR> in Paragraphs'

Really looking forward to seeing the finished site!

[bundio]

Thanks- That did it.

[garyhay]

Really looking forward to seeing the finished site!

Me Too! Cant get my head around the section and product layouts.

[bundio]

Whew

Got the parts of the products section completed. This section is kind of tableless. Basically act_productbody, act_productlinecols and all the snippets they call are tableless. Act_primary is getting pared down everytime I have to touch the templates, one day soon I will have it all done. But take a look at the font sets and shape sets product areas and see the tableless layout and pagination.
I am very thick skinned so offer any and all thoughts. Particularly about any issues with "Compact HTML/CGI" anyone has had. It totally destroys my clients design, of course I haven't had/taken the time to see what it is pulling out that kills me.
This is a dev site- NOT the live site. So please don't try and order anything.
Shape Sets

Thanks for the help.
Dan Carney

[chivalry21]

Hi Bundio,

I've just been looking at your website and you seem to be keeping tables for overall structural layout? Is this intentional?

Andy

[bundio]

I am ripping out the table structure piece by piece. Inside out. I finished the font, shapes, accessory product sections. The cutter section was obviously designed as a table layout, I don't have to rewrite that one yet. Only doing it as the client wants the sections rewritten. And I cant remove the main table yet, haven't rewritten all the pages yet. And the header section is also legacy, so I won't thckle that till the client wants a change.

[chivalry21]

Oh right,

I just thought it was interesting you had a hybrid of CSS and Tables. Actinic is quite tricky to convert over to CSS. Even some of the HTML currently in the software is depricated. It took us around 2 weeks to convert over to a pure CSS design so I sympathise with your task. Best of luck.

[bundio]

Thank you-
The consultant before me made some decisions that I have to live with or rewrite. I will get there, but it will take time.

[dundeemedia]

Just wondering how the CSS template mentioned was coming along, is it available for download anywhere?

[cdicken]

I didn't get amazingly far, but you can see the progress I made in a 701 snapshot...

http://www.actinic.co.uk/v7/css_theme.acd

It's not really suitable for use in a site - it's more just something to help designers come up with their own designs.

[click-through]

Dundee, Bundio, Chivalry, Dybbuk, Cdicken et al...

Boy is it a relief to read your thread. I have spent similar amounts of time and heartache trying to rip these Act_Whatever.html files apart and bring them into the modern world. It is wonderful to read that I am not alone!

CDicken - are your efforts the only ones ever published? Is there a plan to create a single standard pure CSS Actinic Theme that we can all hang our hats on and then spend our time creatively styling it rather than re-inventing the wheel?

I am a couple of weeks from finishing my CSS masterpiece, you can see where I am at at www.homebits.co.uk.

Regards,

click-through.

[cdicken]

CDicken - are your efforts the only ones ever published?

TO date, yes.

Is there a plan to create a single standard pure CSS Actinic Theme that we can all hang our hats on and then spend our time creatively styling it rather than re-inventing the wheel?

Absolutely, though it won't be in v7. For now you will need to unpick the design I have done and use to build your own designs. In the future there will be Actinic designs where content and presentation are totally separated.

[domino1]

Chris,
Do you have any updates regarding the "pure CSS Actinic Theme"? I gather there's a Catalog V8 due out later this year. Will it include this?

Thanks

Dave

[yvonne]

CSS themes

Here's what I want to know: Why in the world is the body tag for BusinesCSS filled with formatting??? It is impossible to remove from the template without creating a generating HTML error message. Having the formatting in the body tag defeats the purpose of the CSS! I had to comment out the Actinic body tag and then put in a new, pure body tag of my own, to circumvent the problem.

Second, why this love affair with nestled tables? Even when they don't make the least sense they're there. It's a pain to strip off all the excess tables and sometimes it's not even possible without creating untold horrors. Like Ted I keep ripping and ripping and ripping...

yvonne
http://hiddenvalleyhibiscus.com