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[col]

I have been getting my students into using KompoZer to build websites.
I have found the posts on this whole forum very interesting for giving me ideas.
My students are now referred to Charles Cooke's lesson notes. They are extremely helpful. My students are referred to it as their primary reference for using kompoZer. (Thanks Charles).
http://www.charlescooke.me.uk/web/kz-ug-home.htm
A cut-down version of the task notes I provide for them is here (it includes some movies of the procedure).
http://home.exetel.com.au/cmckay/buildws/build-ws2.html
Please feel free to comment on what I have produced, in terms of CSS, use of KompoZer or educational strategy.

[wink0r]

col,

I just wanted to mention a couple of sites that you might find interesting for yourself and your students. The first is the KazGarden. This is a css demo site the content used to build these pages is all the same. The css is the variable. It is an impressive demonstration of the power of css. It is located at: http://www.gimp-werkstatt.de/kaze/

The second site is my background image site. The selection is not overwhelming and some of the images are a bit bold, but I offer them free for use in designing web pages. The address is: http://www.symmetricalbackgrounds.com/

Have a good day!!

Wink

[Chaddy]

Hi.
Your site looks ok, but you should not really be recommending the use of eather:
Pixxel sizeing for fonts, as Internet Explorer users can't re-size them by default.
You also should not really use them for widths as your site will break at larger font sizes.
You should use em and % units for sizeing objects on the page, a part from borders and images.

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[col]

Thanks Chaddy for the tips. This is the kind of pointers I was hoping for. I did not realise px was a problem. I will need to adjust all my notes to use em, and the movies.
Background images are not really something I have been too keen on, though they looked interesting.