I've been reading a great book on web design (more on that later) and am now completely dissatisfied with this webblog design. So I've been looking at a few .Text skins and figuring out how they work. I've never done a lot of ASP .NET programming but I'm learning fast.
I've been trying to get a tab bar working using a pure CSS design and while it works all right in a test page, when I integrate it into a .Text skin, it stops working. Arrrggghh! This has got me stumped at the moment and rather frustrated.
I tend to handcode HTML but I've been trying to find good tools that I don't have to fight with to make it all less tedious. Of late, I've been using Dreamweaver MX which is overall a nice environment but I'm not impressed with it's CSS editing. So I just installed the freebie version of TopStyle. Definitely better. Nice preview feature. It might eventually tempt me to get TopStyle Pro.
But how do you debug CSS? For some reason the style class doesn't seem to be picked up on my page.
Well at least there's a lot of good information on CSS around the 'net. I'm impressed with Positioning Is Everything. There's lots of CCS bugs out there so I hope I haven't found one of them.
Meanwhile, I've got to decide whether to attempt a pure CSS design or still use a table or two to structure the pages.