January 2010 Meeting Report: Using Position for Page Layout

We started out January meeting with a look at some statistics from some local government webmasters showing the browsers used to access their sites. Over the last year, generally Firefox has increased in use, IE6 is still a major player, and Chrome has made progress.

We then looked at an article on The Case Against Vertical Navigation from Smashing Magazine. The article was nicely related to the topic that we are covering in this year's meetings.

We then moved on to the tutorial on positioning that we have been working on, Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps. We finished that tutorial, and next month will move on to positioning background images.

January 2010 Meeting Announcement

The next session of the PACS CSS Workshop will be this Saturday, January 16, at the usual 9-10 am hour.

At our November meeting, before the snows, we looked at absolute and relative positioning, and then put them together to see how they worked with each other. At this month's session, we will finish the positioning tutorial that we have been working on, and then move to another tutorial on graphics and links. The goal is to show how to create a navigation menu that is a cut above the usual horizontal or vertical list.

I will also have some interesting statistics from a few government websites about browser usage.

December 2009 Meeting Report: Let It Snow

We were snowed out this month, so in January, we will continue with positioning and navigation. See you then.

December 2009 Meeting Announcement

The next session of the PACS CSS Workshop will be this Saturday at the usual 9-10 am hour.

Last month, we looked at absolute and relative positioning, and then put the two together to see how they worked with each other. At this month's session, we will finish the positioning tutorial that we have been working on, and then move to another tutorial on that is more focused on graphics and links. The goal is to show how to create a navigation menu that is a cut above the usual horizontal or vertical list.

We will also have a website or two of interest.

November 2009 Meeting Report: Absolute vs. Relative Positioning

Our November meeting started with a look at some websites with useful CSS material:

• 10 Tips for Writing Better CSS
• Different Ways To Format CSS
• Poll: How do you format your CSS?

We also looked at two Firefox add-ons that let you see the structure of your page, something that is important in order to understand how positioning will work with your elements:

• Firebug
• DOM Inspector

We then continued with the tutorial by BarelyFitz Designs called Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps. We reviewed relative positioning, then moved on to absolute positioning, and then looked at how absolute and relative work together.