CSS rules vs. page properties

#1

Hello,

I have taken over a website which is already built. I'm very, very new to all
this, please bear with me.

I am trying to apply styles etc; I have a CSS sheet which I like and
incorporate in pages but it seems that some styles are conflicting -between the
CSS sheet, the page properties and even my left menu.
As a result, when I load some pages on the website, they 1st show a certain
style (very briefly) then jumps to the "final" style.

Which style tool supercedes the others and how can I control them better?
Thank you,
Caroline

#2

The style closest (in the code) to the element being styled wins (in the
case of conflicts). Thus -

<style type="text/css">
body { color:red; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p style="color:blue;"><span style="color:green;">This text is
green</span></p>

If you are gathering that all this code is important, you are spot on. I
wouldn't want you working on any website without being fairly comfortable in
the code. Meantime, these may help -

http://www.w3schools.com
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/uberlinks/index.htm
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/qtabs/index.htm
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/dreamweaver/css.html
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/tableless_layout_dw8.html
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/css_concepts.html

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"Cobejero" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Hello,

I have taken over a website which is already built. I'm very, very new to
all
this, please bear with me.

I am trying to apply styles etc; I have a CSS sheet which I like and
incorporate in pages but it seems that some styles are
conflicting -between the
CSS sheet, the page properties and even my left menu.
As a result, when I load some pages on the website, they 1st show a
certain
style (very briefly) then jumps to the "final" style.

Which style tool supercedes the others and how can I control them better?
Thank you,
Caroline

#3

<I have taken over a website which is already built. I'm very, very new to
all this...>

If this is your hobby site and you're doing this to learn new skills, fine,
learning by immersion (sink or swim) can work for some folks. But if this
site is important to anyone other than yourself, you should be up front with
the site owner. Tell them you don't have the requisite skills yet, they
need to pay for your training or hire an experienced web developer to help
you. Otherwise you could both be looking at a total train wreck.

just my 2 cents,
--
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
www.alt-web.com/
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#4

That's worth at least half a dollar, Nancy.

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"Nancy O" <nancyoshea1 (AT) NOSPAMatt (DOT) net> wrote

Quote:

I have taken over a website which is already built. I'm very, very new to
all this...

If this is your hobby site and you're doing this to learn new skills,
fine,
learning by immersion (sink or swim) can work for some folks. But if this
site is important to anyone other than yourself, you should be up front
with
the site owner. Tell them you don't have the requisite skills yet, they
need to pay for your training or hire an experienced web developer to help
you. Otherwise you could both be looking at a total train wreck.

just my 2 cents,
--
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
www.alt-web.com/
www.twitter.com/altweb/
www.alt-web.blogspot.com/

#5

Thanks for the replies. No, not a personal website, but I'm not screwing anybody either -it's an internal website for our company only

#6

Then you are screwing yoru company. Really. Letting someone with little
experience and knowledge of HTML and CSS go with editing an existing website
is a mistake. But good luck!

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"Cobejero" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Thanks for the replies. No, not a personal website, but I'm not screwing
anybody either -it's an internal website for our company only

#7

Murray *ACE* wrote:

Quote:

Then you are screwing yoru company. Really. Letting someone with
little experience and knowledge of HTML and CSS go with editing an
existing website is a mistake. But good luck!

But it is internal, so it could be a good place to start learning, at
least its not mission critical where you could lose business cos your
site doesn't work.

Still, the boss needs to know that this isn't a word type application
that you just pick up. Its a valuable development tool that aids
productivity for those who know and understand the medium of web design.

Good luck to the OP!

Dooza
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#8

Thanks Dooza. Yes it is internal and I've done pretty good. Not patting myself
on the back, but it does work for our purposes. The website is for displaying
general information for our empoyees. Nothing super fancy and it doesn't need
to "do" stuff... (and yes, definitely not losing business over it) I basically
just need the links to work and get to the right pages. I just wanted to make
it easier to look at (bigger fonts, nice colors and such), which so far, it's
working... It's password protected so I can't show you guys

Thanks for the help, I'm not ashamed to ask!!

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