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Making a CSS Stylesheet for different pages of a website

I am making a website with only two main pages which are "Index" and "About me" pages. After making the templates and everything, I came across a confusing problem where I couldn't really edit the Css style of the about page.

Basically my About and Index page got the same template from my main Html (the one made from scratch) Which i thing it's fine there .. but I would like My About page to have a different look from my Index page, Everytime i make a change on the Editable region that I would like to make disappear from the About page, It also Affects the INdex page. Same for the Stylesheet, I want different colors on the about page but it seems like everytime i do something it affects the whole site.

Here is the picture of the site i made so far. Homepage and about page

Both pages have the same template, same editable region and the same css and look exactly the same way at the moment but I would like to remove the div class:"notes" from the about page and expand the width of his div id="main-content" change completely almost every even the colors i mean the whole style of the about page, without affecting the Homepage and leave it as it is .. what should I do? Please

Thank you

PS: i am using Dreamweaver cs6.

main dwt html/ same html for the about and index page only difference is the for index and about are not editable

<code> 

<!doctype html>

<html>

<head>
<!--JavaScript that enables Internet Explorer (version 8 and below) to recognise HTML5      elements -->
<script type="text/javascript">
document.createElement ('article')
document.createElement ('nav')
document.createElement ('aside')
document.createElement ('header')
document.createElement ('footer')
document.createElement ('main')
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../js/timothy.js"></script>

<link href="../css/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen">

<meta charset="utf-8">
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
<title>My Uni Website</title>
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
</head>



<body>
<!--Write web page content and markup within the 'body' tags -->
<div id="outer">
    <div class="frame">
      <div class="fade"></div>
      <img src="../images/huxley.jpg"/>
    </div>
<div id="wrapper">
<!--The 'wrapper' div contains all the page content and can be styled -->
     <div id="icon">
      <ul>
                <li><a href="http://www.twitter.com/justcallmebigdi"><img  src="../images/twitter.png" width="20" /></a></li>
                <li><a href="http://www.behance.net/justcallmebigdi"><img src="../images/behance.png" width="20" /></a></li>
      </ul>
  </div>

    <div id="logo"><a href><img src="../images/logo2.png" width="209" height="207"/></a></div>



 <!--The main heading for the page -->    
    <header>
        <!-- <h1>CI135 Learning journal</h1> -->

      <h2> How I mastered web standards in 10 weeks</h2> 
    </header>

 <!--The primary navigation for the page -->
  <nav>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="../index.html">HOME</a></li>
            <li><a href="../about.html">ABOUT ME</a></li>
        </ul>
  </nav>

 <!--Secondary sidebar navigation -->  
  <aside>
  <div class="image"><img src="../images/information.png" width="100"/></div> 
  <div class="aside">
  <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="aside" -->
      <h3> The Weekly posts </h3>
      <ol>
        <li><a href="../index.html">Getting started</a></li>
        <li><a href="../index.html">Learning more about tags</a></li>
        <li><a href="../index.html">Learning about lists and tables</a></li>
      </ol>
      <h3> Favourites</h3>
      <ul>
        <li> <a href="../index.html"> W3C markup validation service </a></li>
        <li> <a href="../index.html"> Web platform Docs -  Web development for beginners </a>  </li>
        <li> <a href="../index.html"> Html5 Doctor -  Helping you implement HTML5 today </a></li>
      </ul>
      <h3> Basic Definitions </h3>
      <dl>
        <dt><strong>HTML</strong></dt>
        <dd>Hyper-text markup language - markup language used to structure content</dd>
        <dt><strong>CSS</strong></dt>
        <dd>Cascading stylesheets - used to tell browsers how to present HTML elements</dd>
        <dt><strong>JavaScript</strong></dt>
        <dd>Scripting language for adding interactive behaviour to web pages</dd>
      </dl>
      <!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
      <h3> My time table </h3>
    <table width="523" height="81" border="1">
          <tr>
              <td width="71" height="23" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Day/Time</td>
              <td width="215" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Monday</td>
              <td width="215" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Tuesday</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
              <td height="25" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">9-10 am</td>
              <td>&nbsp;</td>
              <td>Lecture</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
              <td height="23" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">10-11 am</td>
              <td>lecture</td>
              <td>Lab</td>
          </tr>
      </table>
  </div>        
  </aside>



 <!--The main page content -->   
  <main><!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="mainContent" -->
    <article>
      <!--Content node -->
      <div class="header">
        <h1>Week 3: Tables, link images, quoting text </h1>
      </div>
      <p>In the first 3 lab tutorials I learned some of the most frequently used HTML tags and how to use them to structure text in a web page. <br>
        PS: ADD MORE COMMENTS ABOUT WEEK 3. </p>
    </article>
    <article>
      <div class="header">
        <h1>Week 2</h1>
      </div>
      <p>PS: ADD COMMENTS ABOUT WEEK 2.</p>
    </article>
    <article>
      <div class="header">
        <h1>Week 1</h1>
      </div>
      <p>ADD COMMENTS ABOUT WEEK 1. </p>
      <p>In the first 3 lab tutorials I learned some of the most frequently used HTML tags and how to use them to structure text in a web page. <br>
        PS: ADD MORE COMMENTS ABOUT WEEK 3In the first 3 lab tutorials I learned some of the most frequently used HTML tags and how to use them to structure text in a web page. <br>
        PS: ADD MORE COMMENTS ABOUT WEEK 3In the first 3 lab tutorials I learned some of the most frequently used HTML tags and how to use them to structure text in a web page. <br>
        PS: ADD MORE COMMENTS ABOUT WEEK 3In the first 3 lab tutorials I learned some of the most frequently used HTML tags and how to use them to structure text in a web page. <br>
        PS: ADD MORE COMMENTS ABOUT WEEK 3In the first 3 lab tutorials I learned some of the most frequently used HTML tags and how to use them to structure text in a web page. <br>
        PS: ADD MORE COMMENTS ABOUT WEEK 3</p>
    </article>
  <!-- TemplateEndEditable --></main>

  <div id="right_side_note">
            <div class="post"><!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="SideNotes" -->
              <h2>Notes</h2>
              <p class="date">March 22, 2011</p>
              <p>The W3C defines HTML and CSS as follows:</p>
              <blockquote>
                <p>HTML (the Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are two of the core technologies for building Web pages. HTML provides the structure of the page, CSS the (visual and aural) layout, for a variety of devices. Along with graphics and scripting, HTML and CSS are the basis of building Web pages. <br>
                  <cite>W3C standards for web </cite></p>
              </blockquote>
            <!-- TemplateEndEditable --></div>
  </div>

  <div id="footer">
      <!--Footer content -->
      <p class="footer-text">&copy; 2013 Daniel Biakath / University of Brighton.</p>
</div>

</div>
</div>

<!--Close 'wrapper' div -->
</body>
<!--Close 'body' -->
</html> 

<code>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 9555

Answers (1)

RacerNerd
RacerNerd

Reputation: 1579

You should create two separate CSS files and put the styles for each page into the separate files, say about.css and home.css. From the about page, link to the about.css and from the home page link to the home.css.

A CSS link should look something like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="home.css">

CSS files are loaded in order so you will need to take that into consideration if styles are supposed to override each other. If the following is declared in the head and both files have a style with the same name, the style in the home.css file will be used. You might not be seeing changes made to the about.css if this is the case. The most important CSS file should be listed last.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="about.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="home.css">

If your styles are currently inline and look like this:

<style type="text/css">
/*YOUR STYLES HERE*/
</style>

you can make the changes in each file directly or if you want cut everything from inside the tag and put it in the appropriate css file.

If after making changes to your CSS nothing is happening, it is possible, depending on the system you are using, that cache is coming into play. Even though you make changes, the version served by the web server is the same. CSS files seem to do this a lot to me if I'm not careful. If that's the case, reset the website and clear browser cache and you should be good to go.

Upvotes: 3

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