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December 23, 2004
Cool tool to help you create your first CSS template
People new to developing websites are learning from a lot of old tutorials available on the Internet. It is quite common to see the use of the CENTER tag to align elements... and most beginners are still using font tags. Constructs like this have been deprecated which means outdated by newer constructs... usually in favor of CSS.
I found an interesting online tool that will help those new to CSS build their own template.
You can try it here. This seems like a good way for beginners to get started — once they create the template they want, then they can try and adjust some of the settings to see what kind of changes it makes in the layout.
If one decides to use the template they create for their site template it would be a good idea to take the CSS out of the top of the document and use it as an external stylesheet. To this remove... cut everything out between the <style></style> tags and paste it into a Notepad file and then save it as stylesheet.css. Make sure to remove the <style></style> tags from the .css file.
Then create a link to the stylesheet in the <head></head> part of your html document like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" media="all" />
If one was to put their template on the web you might also want to include these meta tags in your <head></head> element:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="mssmarttagspreventparsing" content="true">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
When you're learning a lot of people don't know how to create thing like this form scratch, so by using a tool like this, it can help accelerate the learning curve.
Did you find this useful?
Posted by Steve MacLellan at December 23, 2004 07:51 AM
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