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CMX JumpStart: Malé
CMX JumpStart Malé, one of our most flexible JumpStarts to date, is a fixed-width two and three-column layout. You can show, or hide, the third column on a page-by-page basis, without having to delve into the code. The left column features a CSS based flyout menu that you can customize with as many levels as you need. Of course Malé meets the W3C standards for CSS and XHTML, as well as the WAI accessibility requirements, too.
As you look at the gorgeous image in the header, you may wonder where this idyllic scene is located. Malé is the capital of the Republic of the Maldives, which is located on the equator in the South West of Sri Lanka.
The package includes the following:
- Documentation
- An extension to easily install Malé files from the New Document dialog box
- The CMX Conditional Comment Extension by Paul Davis
- Six tutorials
- Three style sheets: one main, one for Internet Explorer 6 and below, and an Internet 7 style sheet
- A Fireworks PNG documents for branding the graphics
- A starter page
Malé is available for $29.99 to non-members, but is absolutely free to CMX subscribers. Read more about how to make it yours.
- CMX JumpStart Malé article for nonmembers and members who would like to read more about its features and see a modified Malé design.
- CMX JumpStart Malé article for members and for those who would like to purchase Malé now.
Chicago: Developing a CSS Starter Page
Last fall Sheri German went to Chicago to present a workshop at Adobe MAX 2007. She took some photographs to use in a second tutorial series devoted to developing a CSS Starter Page.
The CSS Starter Pages are an invaluable addition to the CSS toolset in Dreamweaver CS3. With well over thirty different layout types from which to choose, you can rapidly develop page designs, free from the onerous task of having to build the underlying structure from scratch. However, a little knowledge is still necessary. There are some features that the starter pages must leave up to you to develop, such as navigation schemes, text styling, and background images to use in faux column technique.
In this five-part tutorial you'll learn to take advantage of a starter page as you modify the two-column, fixed-width, left-sidebar, header and footer layout. You'll use a Fireworks graphical representation of the layout to develop the graphics for a design we'll call Chicago. You'll add horizontal navigation and sidebar pods to jazz up the generic design and make it a functioning page upon which you can base a site.
And as a special addition to the series, Jim Babbage takes you through the process of modifying Chicago to use for a photography site.
- Chicago: Developing a CSS Starter Page Part One
- Chicago: Developing a CSS Starter Page Part Two
- Chicago: Developing a CSS Starter Page Part Three
- Chicago: Developing a CSS Starter Page Part Four
- Chicago: Developing a CSS Starter Page Part Five
- From Chicago Style to Picture Perfect - Customizing the Chicago JumpStart (Jim Babbage's modification of Chicago)
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