Div Layouts

[momarkey]

Does anyone know where to get a tutorial on doing a Div layout for a site, right now I still use tables mostly, but would like to start laying out sites with Div and CSS

[ryanbutler]

I think Alistapart.com has some articles on it. This site has some DIV layouts you can use and experiment with:

http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/

I have an article that I wrote about creating a CSS layout:

http://midwestwebdesign.net/tutorials/csslayout/index.php

Hope it helps.

[momarkey]

Thanks alot, that article you wrote is really good, I was a little rusty on Fireworks, do you use it alot? Is it better for webdesign than Photoshop?

[ryanbutler]

Designers will say otherwise, but Fireworks was intended and designed for creating web graphics and websites, whereas Photoshop was intended for printed graphical pieces. Yes, I use Fireworks when creating websites. I know *just* enough about Photoshop to be dangerous.

[felgall]

Stop thinking divs and start by marking up your content with semantically correct tags that define what your content is. You should then only need to add divs to define page divisions and where there isn't a tag already in your content to attach styles to. Just filling your content with meaningless divs would be just as wrong as using tables for layout.