View Full Version : CSS while still using Geocities/Pagebuilder drag & drop?


mamertionwm
01-14-2006, 07:52 AM
I know it's kind of lazy to use the drag and drop stuff in PageBuilder, but for some of my pages it's just easier to do that for text and pictures than typing out the html for it.

Since my pages are in Geocities and I want to still use PageBuilder for the easy stuff, can I even do CSS at all? Or, do I have to type out the code for my content then?

Any tips on using CSS in Geocities?

Thanks,

Mamertion

salomeyasobko
01-14-2006, 08:10 AM
Attempting CSS with geocities pagebuilder is probably not the best choice. I'm sure it's possible, but the HTML pagebuilder creates is SO MESSY and there is sooo much unnecessary coding in it, that it would probably be really hard to fish out what parts of the coding to assign what CSS attributes to.

I would really suggest re-coding your website, manually. It may be a lot of work but if you just invest some time into it, it's really rewarding. There is so much more freedom and flexibility as to what you will be able to achieve with CSS, and all forms of coding. Lissa's tutorials are a great start, and you can always come to the forum for questions.

Otherwise.. can I see the URL to your page, or can you paste your coding here? That'll help in determining whether your page is doomed or not :hehe:

mamertionwm
01-14-2006, 09:36 AM
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.

Well, I haven't actually put anything up yet. I've just been playing with frames all night, trying to accomplish what I want to do with frames... but slowly realizing I'm just gonna have to do CSS, because I really need the fluidity CSS offers.

A question I have, is can I target non CSS pages? I mean, if I have old pages in html (that were done in page builder) can I still target them from my CSS mainframe? Basically what I'm interested is the CSS framework versus the frames framework, if that makes any sense?

Any tips would be *hugely* appreciated!! :)

salomeyasobko
01-14-2006, 08:17 PM
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey. woohoo, Beck! :)


Well, I haven't actually put anything up yet. I've just been playing with frames all night, trying to accomplish what I want to do with frames... but slowly realizing I'm just gonna have to do CSS, because I really need the fluidity CSS offers.

A question I have, is can I target non CSS pages? I mean, if I have old pages in html (that were done in page builder) can I still target them from my CSS mainframe? Basically what I'm interested is the CSS framework versus the frames framework, if that makes any sense?

Any tips would be *hugely* appreciated!! :)
You can achieve a similar targetting affect with PHP includes and CSS, but that's more advanced coding and i think you should wait until you're more comfortable coding on your own before attempting that. The only other way to achieve a targetting affect is with iframes. you can probably look through your coding for your different pages and fish out where the iframes are [if you added iframes with pagebuilder]. Just make sure you assign a name to those iframes, and use that name for each link target.

Good luck! :D