I've played around with creating web sites a little but nothing fancy. Not touched CSS yet but it looks as though I need to. I was talking to a colleague at work this week and he was talking about pretty much the same thing you use for swapping styles, only I hadn't appreciated that's how you do it on TTF. I can see me reading up on CSS for the next couple of weeks ;-)

Style sheets are very simple to implement and it can really make your life a whole lot easier when you're trying to make an entire site have a consistant look and feel. There's also some stuff you can only do w/ css such as not making links be underlined that you can't do with html.

Plus there are a lot of resources on the web with a listing of available properties you have a choice of. You may wish to take a look at style sheets if you've never played around w/ them before, just for curiosity's sake. They're a pretty simple concept though (especially if you're proficient in HTML).

BTW were you able to find this thread OK? I'm sure you noticed I created a new forum for TechTalk related stuff. I figured I'd weed out the Random Stuff forum.

My HTML skills are OK. I've knocked up a few sites, ordinary stuff though. I can do something more complex than I have but don't have the need. I have a book on DHTML/CSS but haven't spent any time on it yet, too much other stuff to do, but I like what I'm hearing about CSS and will spend some time on it in the next few weeks. I can see a lot of potential for using it.

[I linked to the thread from outside the site; it appeared in the stats for my own C++ site which I added the link to in my profile yesterday]

Cheers.

i just tried the "flat" style - think i might just leave it in place for awhile!

Hey Mister Scarce! Welcome back hehe

bob:

I'm getting a "runtime error" popup everytime I try to visit your site?

Yeah, thanks for that. I use a counter on the site from Bravenet.com and it apears they were having problems earlier, which is where the error came from.

Thanks for letting me know. Seems to be working OK now.

Other than the counter there's nothing but very basic HTML on the site.

I hear you. I also use a counter from Bravenet.

Other than that, I've found the facilities Bravenet offer to be quite good. On another site I use their guestbook, chat room etc and have been quite pleased with it all. Very easy to install and set up and very few problems.

I definitely agree with you. I like their stat tools. I also don't mind too much the periodic e-mails I get from them regarding web site tricks.