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Tuesday, May 13, 2003   Frustrations I'm really unhappy with the template that I'm currently using for this site, and have been wanting to do a redesign pretty much since I launched. My plan is to redesign the template and migrate over to MovableType, but I keep running into problems. The combination of MT's template tags, my utter ignorance in CSS, and a weird MT install has caused ALL work on the new pages come to a crashing halt. All I want is a simple 3-column layout in 2 shades of grey and a drab green. But I just can't wrap my head around CSS. It looks so easy, but when I sit down and try to code it I can't seem to get started. Should I create all my "DIV"s first and then work on the layout? I really just need a good "beginners CSS guide" that tells someone with a moderate amount of HTML knowledge "this is how you make a page in CSS..." And Dreamweaver is NO HELP whatsoever... Anybody want to point me in the right direction? posted by JMV | 5/13/2003 11:52:00 AM |		Octopus Hat Pics From Flickr Other’s Blogs Julie Matt Holohan John Forrest Mary Matt Hals Iason Chun Meli Paul Greg Potter Greg Flores Catherine Links BoingBoing Blogging.la 43 Folders Lifehacker archives < 01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003 02/01/2003 - 03/01/2003 03/01/2003 - 04/01/2003 04/01/2003 - 05/01/2003 05/01/2003 - 06/01/2003 06/01/2003 - 07/01/2003 07/01/2003 - 08/01/2003 08/01/2003 - 09/01/2003 09/01/2003 - 10/01/2003 10/01/2003 - 11/01/2003 11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003 12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004 01/01/2004 - 02/01/2004 02/01/2004 - 03/01/2004 03/01/2004 - 04/01/2004 04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 05/01/2004 - 06/01/2004 06/01/2004 - 07/01/2004 07/01/2004 - 08/01/2004 08/01/2004 - 09/01/2004 09/01/2004 - 10/01/2004 10/01/2004 - 11/01/2004 11/01/2004 - 12/01/2004 12/01/2004 - 01/01/2005 01/01/2005 - 02/01/2005 02/01/2005 - 03/01/2005 03/01/2005 - 04/01/2005 04/01/2005 - 05/01/2005 05/01/2005 - 06/01/2005 06/01/2005 - 07/01/2005 07/01/2005 - 08/01/2005 08/01/2005 - 09/01/2005 09/01/2005 - 10/01/2005 10/01/2005 - 11/01/2005 11/01/2005 - 12/01/2005 12/01/2005 - 01/01/2006 01/01/2006 - 02/01/2006 02/01/2006 - 03/01/2006 03/01/2006 - 04/01/2006 04/01/2006 - 05/01/2006 05/01/2006 - 06/01/2006 06/01/2006 - 07/01/2006 07/01/2006 - 08/01/2006 08/01/2006 - 09/01/2006 09/01/2006 - 10/01/2006 11/01/2006 - 12/01/2006 01/01/2007 - 02/01/2007 02/01/2007 - 03/01/2007		Me, Elsewhere My flickr page My Space Profile ATOM Feed Comments Feed OctopusHat Super-feed! Buy John Beer Links