3. I'm so used to the cascading element of css that when I see text defined that early, I think: ahah, something's overriding that later. my own css is often layered to do just that, with exceptions at the bottom for specific overrides.
4. margin: 0 auto is useful, but it also depends on whether you want things centered. sometimes a layout looks better, oddly, if it's shunted to the left. depends on the layout.
there are actually four ways to list values when it comes to margin/padding: a. there's the standard shorthand, known as TROUBLE -- TRBL, which is top-right-bottom-left. VERY easy to remember, eh? b. there's the single one, in which one value is applied to all c. there's the double, where the first value is top-bottom and the second is left-right, d. there's the rarely-seen triple, which is (erm, I think, I never use this!) the first is top-bottom and then left value and right value? Check www.tizag.com. They've got all sorts of useful info about this stuff.
5. b href works only if you're on a site where b's been defined -- unfortunately, that site will never be LJ/DW/etc, since we can't define globals. grrrr.
6. sounds like an instance where using margin:0 auto isn't visually the best way to do it, in which case try something like margin: 0 auto, and override it with margin-left: 5%, see what that does. (easier than typing each out separately, for me at least.)
8. there is a way to do subtitles! it just means doing wacky layers, b/c they turned off the global on subtitles -- why? I BLOODY WELL DON'T KNOW. Some of the stylistic choices right now have me bashing my head on the keyboard, b/c they're good only for developers and/or folks who really really know their way around. Hell for anyone else. Regardless, I think it's in this comm, as a matter of fact -- check back a few posts and you should see something about subtitles.
11. borders are my soopersekrit tool when it comes to reverse-engineering someone else's css. doing background colors, one will block out the other, which doesn't help so much -- but borders will overlay, especially if background-color is set to transparent. then you can see what's meshing and what's clashing.
hey, you're not alone in being finicky with layouts. I do the same, but I tend towards minimalism, so doing layouts on LJ/DW/etc drives me crazy for all the div-in-div-in-div crap. I lean hard towards grids, and you just can't manage that with pre-set divs like what's here. Eh, well!
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3. I'm so used to the cascading element of css that when I see text defined that early, I think: ahah, something's overriding that later. my own css is often layered to do just that, with exceptions at the bottom for specific overrides.
4. margin: 0 auto is useful, but it also depends on whether you want things centered. sometimes a layout looks better, oddly, if it's shunted to the left. depends on the layout.
there are actually four ways to list values when it comes to margin/padding:
a. there's the standard shorthand, known as TROUBLE -- TRBL, which is top-right-bottom-left. VERY easy to remember, eh?
b. there's the single one, in which one value is applied to all
c. there's the double, where the first value is top-bottom and the second is left-right,
d. there's the rarely-seen triple, which is (erm, I think, I never use this!) the first is top-bottom and then left value and right value? Check www.tizag.com. They've got all sorts of useful info about this stuff.
5. b href works only if you're on a site where b's been defined -- unfortunately, that site will never be LJ/DW/etc, since we can't define globals. grrrr.
6. sounds like an instance where using margin:0 auto isn't visually the best way to do it, in which case try something like margin: 0 auto, and override it with margin-left: 5%, see what that does. (easier than typing each out separately, for me at least.)
8. there is a way to do subtitles! it just means doing wacky layers, b/c they turned off the global on subtitles -- why? I BLOODY WELL DON'T KNOW. Some of the stylistic choices right now have me bashing my head on the keyboard, b/c they're good only for developers and/or folks who really really know their way around. Hell for anyone else. Regardless, I think it's in this comm, as a matter of fact -- check back a few posts and you should see something about subtitles.
11. borders are my soopersekrit tool when it comes to reverse-engineering someone else's css. doing background colors, one will block out the other, which doesn't help so much -- but borders will overlay, especially if background-color is set to transparent. then you can see what's meshing and what's clashing.
hey, you're not alone in being finicky with layouts. I do the same, but I tend towards minimalism, so doing layouts on LJ/DW/etc drives me crazy for all the div-in-div-in-div crap. I lean hard towards grids, and you just can't manage that with pre-set divs like what's here. Eh, well!
Glad it worked out and is looking like you want!