Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Many of you have been working on creating your own CSS layouts. When developing these layouts you must decide whether to use floats vs. absolute or relative positioning. I thought I would post a few articles that may help with the decision making process:

456 Berea St. – Fixed or fluid width? Elastic!

InformitIT – Integrated Web Design: Position This! CSS Positioning Demystified

The CSS Library – has some great articles on positioning. I especially like the article on relative positioning. It’s really excellent and easy to understand! Another excellent article at the library is Teaching Your Floats to Swim. Finally, Box Model and the Broken Box Model is a clear explanation of the box model and the associated problems which are very important to understand when you’re working with CSS layouts. I wish that I had seen these articles last week when some of you were working on your “floated” layouts (Rebecca and Georgia, these articles are for you).

I would recommend that everyone reads Structure Your HTML and CSS which explains good coding practices when developing HTML documents and Getting Started with CSS which explains the basics of CSS. New students are learning to create what is called “inline” styles by using the style attribute now, but you will learn how to and be encouraged to use the methods discussed in this article. It’s a great primer for what is yet to come.