Best way to create menus?

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What technique is generally considered the best when creating menus? I've seen unordered lists used, as well as definition lists and tables.
 
Either way you'll need html guys. A menu is essentially an unordered list. So thats the tag you use. I'd say thread derailed ;)
 
Ok, unordered lists looks like the to go then, thanks guys.

What's a good way to test out how a website looks in different screen resolutions? I'm assuming there's a better way than constantly adjusting my screen resolution?
 
Design at 960px wide and forget the people with tiny monitors. They are holding back humanity ;)

You could use media queries if you want to get technical though :)


Oh and resize this ;) http://cssgrid.net/
 
Sherbs said:
Design at 960px wide and forget the people with tiny monitors. They are holding back humanity ;)
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Oh I agree with you there. :D

And if I want the images in the content div to have padding but not the ones in the header, do I create two css classes for header and content images?
 
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Thanks.

Say for example if I wanted every header to be the same, i.e. the same text and images how could I do this without having to copy and paste that html onto every page?
 
Mmm, Server Side includes. Ever used PHP?

Or CSS pseudo elements using :before and :after, never tried it myself but its possible..
 
If you have a PHP server you could store the HTML within a header.php file and within each HTML page you'd just write <?php require("header.php") ?>. Whatever is displayed within header.php will be displayed in that respective page :)
 
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If you have a PHP server you could store the HTML within a header.php file and within each HTML page you'd just write <?php require("header.php") ?>. Whatever is displayed within header.php will be displayed in that respective page :)
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Sherbs said:
Mmm, Server Side includes. Ever used PHP?

Or CSS pseudo elements using :before and :after, never tried it myself but its possible..
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Ok. Thought it would easily be possible using front end stuff. I will leave that to later then when I put it on a server. I've used JSP before, very shallow learning curve already knowing java.

When using the include statement, do you typically put that in the header div like this,

Code: 
<div class="header">
<%@ include file="header.jsp" %>
</div>

or put the div in the header file?

Actually wouldn't it be more convenient to have one template page which includes content of a certain page when that url is requested?
 
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Either/or.

Going to talk in php as thats more my bag.

I would personally have header.php like this.

Code: 
<div class="header">
Hello world
</div>

And index.php or whatever.

Code: 
<!doctype html>
  <head>
  <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <title>Example document</title>
  </head>
  <body>
	<?php include 'header.php'; ?>
	<?php include 'content.php'; ?>
	<?php include 'footer.php'; ?>
  </body>
</html>

Less confusing.
 
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erm..could I throw say Wordpress into the mix? Just write a theme, and hey presto all your headers are the same...update via mobile etc. multiple authors, seo easy, mobile easy, updates easy...just need a database and php on your server...
 
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