Cells for a blog

**Sushisource** · March 30th, 2004, 12:20 AM

I'm going about making a blog... but i HATE HTML with a passion, im a flash guy. The only reason i use HTML is to get people to see my flash stuff, and for this blog. Anyways i want to make a cool cell type thing like Lostinbeta has in his blog (Here) but i have no idea how to do this. (I did search but didnt find anything st00pid enough for my low-level HTML skill

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**SniperFire** · March 31st, 2004, 02:56 AM

He's using CSS enhanced tables.

**lostinbeta** · March 31st, 2004, 12:28 PM

'Tis correct, I am using just regular tables and just adjusting their colors via CSS.

Although I should be using CSS enhanced div tags and make this XHTML compliant, but I am just too lazy

**Sushisource** · March 31st, 2004, 01:17 PM

?... im St00pid! I dont even know how to make the tables... like i said i'm a flash guy.... i know nothing about HTML. And when i try to learn from your source.. the colors don't show up and.... uughh i hate HTML.

**Sushisource** · April 1st, 2004, 12:21 AM

uuh guys HELP! i managed to make some table things and they are fine... but their border REFUSES to be 1px... i keeps being 2 i hate it. here is source.

PHP Code:


<html>



<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">

<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">

<title>Smack Blog</title>

</head>



<body bgcolor="#94A4A9">



<p><img border="0" src="Smack_Blog_Header_copy.jpg" width="500" height="80"></p>

  <table border="1" width="284" height="18" bordercolorlight="#4A5A6C" bordercolordark="#4A5A6C" bgcolor="#617980" cellpadding="5" align="left" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#4A5A6C">

    <tr>

      <th width="274" height="1" bordercolor="#4A5A6C"><font size="2" face="MS Sans Serif">//Daily

        Food Quotient</font></th>

    </tr>

  </table>

<p>&nbsp;</p>



<div align="left">

  <table border="1" width="284" height="208" bordercolorlight="#4A5A6C" bordercolordark="#4A5A6C" bgcolor="#617980" cellpadding="5" align="left" cellspacing="0">

    <tr>

      <td width="274" height="177" valign="top"><font size="2" face="MS Sans Serif">Today

        we had just normal class... it really stunk.</font>

        <p>&nbsp;</p>

      </td>

    </tr>

  </table>

</div>

<BR />

<p>

<BR />

<BR />

<p>

<BR />

</body>



</html>

**kathari** · April 1st, 2004, 02:06 AM

can I make a parenthesis and ask how the h-ll do I make cell borders only hairline thick? (Yes I hate html too...)

**Sushisource** · April 2nd, 2004, 12:42 AM

Thats exactly what i need to know... how to make the borders hairline... and what is CSS? And why is it cool?

**kathari** · April 2nd, 2004, 01:40 AM

Ok I found it...
If you are working with Dreamweaver I can help you a little bit. Read the program's help program about what CSS really is. As far as I have bothered to find out it is a way to preformat your different tags and some other layout options. You can either save them as part of the html-file or as an external file. In DW (I don't know about others) you can do all of this is within the program. You can automate things like your links so that you don't have to reformat everyone every time.
In DW you open the CSS styles panel if it isn't already open. Choose the radio button "edit styles" then add a style by clicking on the doc with a + on it in the lower right corner of the panel. To get the hairline line, either choose redefine html-tag or make custom class. Decide whether you want it to be part of the document or an external sheet. click OK. in the box coming up click borders in the left box, set the style to solid, the width to value 1 and points!!!! in the dropdown menu beside. basically I gues you could define it in the code as 1pt instead of 1px. Try if you don't want to bother with the CSS. It is handy though for repeating processes and of course you can make your external sheet and apply it to all the files where you want to have a certain layout.
Hope this helps!
and thanks you pro's out there who don't necessarily answer too easy questions. It makes the rest of us think (and have to do something) which usually is a good thing.