Comments on: Nvu

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:17:30 +0000

Thanks to Ruthsarian for the layouts. I have been ’studying’ CSS for a long time but have yet to learn more than the basics. It’s thanks to people like R who produce good quality layouts like Skidoo Too, as well as the resources to back them up (such as the Visual Consistencies CSS and the JS utilities).

As a personal project I am going to try to integrate the font-size tool, the stylesheet switcher and the drop-down menus found in Tank! into Skidoo Too: Gargoyles. I doubt it will be perfect but you don’t know until you try.

Thanks, and keep up the excellent work.

By: Rhianna

Rhianna — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 04:32:23 +0000

Thanks for the comments, Javier. I can see that Ruthsarian’s Visual Consistencies CSS can be a big help.
http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/utility_css/visual_consistencies.css

I’m not sure how it happened, but the pages of mine that have been based upon Ruthsarian’s Skidoo layouts only used the first two of the three style sheets. I need to backtrack to see how all three work together (that’s not always easy).
What makes things tricky is that some people still use Microsoft Internet Explorer as their main browser and others use browsers I haven’t even tested. Things were easier in the mid-90s when everyone used the same browser.

I’d like to thank Ruthsarian. His layouts are great and his web pages and blog are exciting. I started out looking at “glish.com : CSS layout techniques,” and although glish.com is a good resource, Ruthsarian’s site is a lot more fun to look through & more motivational (at least I think so).

By: Javier

Javier — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:09:38 +0000

Good question. I definitely recommend using all stylesheets that Ruthsarian provides in his Skidoo layouts. They are built to be launched right away and have tested them myself in all browsers v5+ on Windows and they appear perfectly. What I do is test every single change I make that I feel might cause a difference in some browsers. This way I can find a problem beforehand rather then later. Also I highly suggest, in fact I demand that you use his Visual Consistencies CSS on every project you start. I have built mine own from his and have found it to force several consistencies across all browsers.

By: Rhianna

Rhianna — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:40:29 +0000

I’m a fan of your blog & design layouts :-)
When I create CSS web pages in Dreamweaver MX I usually us your “CSS1″ and “_theme” CSS stylesheets. I haven’t used your “_v4″ because I thought I could achieve the desired look with the 1st two style sheets. I check my pages in FireFox 1.0.6 & Opera 8.5. My web pages usually look good in those.

Tonight I looked at a site in MSIE 6 and thought “ewww, how did that happen?” Perhaps I should use all 3 of your stylesheets? Any advice as to how to look consistently good in all browsers? Please comment in your blog or e-mail me. Thanks!
~Rhianna