Converting FP2002 tables into CSS

[Tom Miller]

My copy of FP2002 has a nice large subdirectory of table-based templates.
Is there an easy method of converting most of these pages into CSS based
positioning?

The reason I am asking is the more nested the table is the slower it
displays. So I am looking to convert most everything into css-based
positioning....

Thanks,
Tom

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[Chris Leeds, MVP - FrontPage]

unfortunately there's no "easy" way.
Expression Web comes with CSS only templates and it's very good at doing CSS
work.
you may want to look at this site:
www.oswd.org for some nice CSS based templates.

HTH

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[Tom Miller]

unfortunately there's no "easy" way.
Expression Web comes with CSS only templates and it's very good at doing
CSS work.
you may want to look at this site:
www.oswd.org for some nice CSS based templates.

HTH

Thank you Chris. I am resisting changing html editor programs but I think I
am stuck with getting something that does CSS better....

Tom


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[Tom Miller]

unfortunately there's no "easy" way.

Expression Web comes with CSS only templates and it's very good at doing
CSS work.
you may want to look at this site:
www.oswd.org for some nice CSS based templates.

Chris, I just ran across this URL: http://www.table2css.com/

which porports to convert whole websites. It still may not be an "easy"
conversion for the templates in FP2002... it still sounds like upgrading to
Expressions web designer through the upgrade program would be less trouble.

Tom

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[Chris Leeds, MVP - FrontPage]

Expression Web does CSS really well for a visual UI program.
I used (and sometimes still do) TopStyle from www.bradsoft.com it's a killer
CSS program.
Regardless of how good your program is you'll be best served by investing in
a good CSS book that "clicks" for you.
I'd probably went through four or five till one "clicked" in my dense grey
matter:
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/css2/ (I had the first addition and don't
have the second one).

HTH

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[Chris Leeds, MVP - FrontPage]

I'm going to check this link out.
I've never seen it or heard about it.
Thanks!!

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[Chris Leeds, MVP - FrontPage]

I think a heavily nested "old school" table (especially with bad HTML) would
cripple this app.
If anyone's tried it I would like to know what they think.

TIA

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[Tom Miller]

I think a heavily nested "old school" table (especially with bad HTML)

would cripple this app.
If anyone's tried it I would like to know what they think.

Chris, the try out version will run upto 9 times and handle pages upto Nk
(something like 25k) so if you have an example of "old school" or if one of
the FP templates would do....?

Tom

 

[Ronx]

I do not think the program works too well.
I have "converted" one page from my site:

Original - http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/mainpage/sitemap.html
"Converted" - http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/pages/ts_sitemap.html

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[Stefan B Rusynko]

Just goes to prove that tabular data should be presented in a table (-;

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| > >I think a heavily nested "old school" table (especially with bad HTML)
| > >would cripple this app.
| > > If anyone's tried it I would like to know what they think.
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| > Chris, the try out version will run upto 9 times and handle pages upto Nk
| > (something like 25k) so if you have an example of "old school" or if one of
| > the FP templates would do....?
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| > Tom
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[Chris Leeds, MVP - FrontPage]

That's exactly what I was thinking!
I didn't try the application because I know how hard it can be manually, so
the idea that a program could apply more intuition with less code than me
(as weak as I am at it) seemed to strain credulity. ;-)

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