Sunday, September 28, 2008

Building Pet Store : 1 : Observatons of Coding

On my one pot cooking spot I've started to build my pet store wire frame. I'm building something a little different than what I first posted from PowerPoint. I don't have the new sketch scanned but you can see here the screen shot of the div ids with some place holding content.

Following are a few observations I've noticed while coding and in time want to figure why I these behaviors are happening.

Background Colors:
Only in IE6 & IE7 does the container background show for the whole area. It doesn't show in Safari or Firefox for either PC or Mac in areas where there is not content. I think the floats have something to do with this. Need to figure it out.

Margins:
I know bottom margin is showing in some browsers and not in others. Need to figure this out because I believe there are issues in IE for combinations of padding and margin if both used in one block style.

Oh it's been a long time since I built a framework but I'm enjoying the challenge. Usually I would be grabbing all this base XHTML and CSS from framework resources on the web to save time in the development stage and to give me more time in the design stage.

More Observations to come.
Feedback welcome.

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