[Seaside] html & css basics and tutorial

[John M]

FWIW I was/am still in the same boat and the w3schools site was a valuable
refernce on what attributes are valid for what tags etc. Its really not
Seaside's purpose to teach html, only to give a great tool for creating it
in a highly reusable fashion.

Firebug for Firefox is an extremely useful tool for letting you see your
html as rendered and showing you where your div sections end up laying out
etc. I could not get a handle on CSS until i started using it. (Firebug has
some other really useful features that you may need when you get to
working with javascript for example).

Hope this helps
John


On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:04 PM, r00t uk <r00tuk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am hoping to get some advice on how to proceed with HTML & CSS in
> Squeak/Seaside as I am finding it a bit of a struggle to do the simple
> stuff.  I do not have any prior experience with web programming, but I have
> been going through the w3schools.com tutorials for guidance on creating
> the #style method.  Its the rendering side of things which are a bit of a
> struggle as all of the html is generated by Seaside.
>
> Are there any tutorials on web programming with Seaside?  I have been
> spending time getting to know Smalltalk and a bit of Seaside, but up until
> now I have not been concentrating on learning html presentation, or using
> css to manage its presentation. I am somewhat surprised that there appears
> to be no information, documentation or tutorials on rendering except for
> some information in the "HPI - An Introduction to Seaside" book.  I am
> spending a lot of time looking at methods in the example and test classes,
> which I don't mind, but I somehow doubt this is the best use of time.  Where
> do I need to look for information about html rendering methods and message
> values?
>
> Thanks and sorry if I have completely missed some site that has relevent
> documentation.
>
>
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