Re: formatting - design question

PJ wrote: > tedd wrote: >> At 3:58 PM -0400 6/4/09, PJ wrote: >>> tedd wrote: >>> >>> > Style sheets are meant simplify things so decide on how you want >>>> things to look uniformly throughout your site and then stick with it. >>>> There's really no good reason to keep changing things throughout a >>>> site. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> tedd >>>> >>>> >>> Maybe I'm just too complicated. ;-) >>> I do try to keep it simple. But then, little things creep in, like a >>> login box on the index page which mucks up all the other pages. Then >>> there is a recipe page which is totally different, yet to keep is >>> stylistically continuous it uses a similar layout to the other pages but >>> different. The same for the main recipe page, and the same for the >>> portraits of producers - all the pages are different yet remain within a >>> cohesive style. CSS gets super bloated and almost unamageable. Most >>> sites are very repetitive; mine tend to be "provocative" or semthing >>> like that. I really don't see an ooption. Although, Nitsan's body tags >>> sound promising. I'll have to try that; maybe the solution is to do a >>> series of definitions unique just fo certain pages. :-) >> That's simply an example of not thinking things out before you write >> the code. >> >> First you figure out a layout, then you populate it. You don't pick a >> layout, populate it and then change the layout. That leads to a >> lackluster and "lack of thought" site. >> >> Cheers, >> >> tedd >> >> > If only it were that simple. > When one is developing, one is always changing. And even when you're > finally "live and on the air", you will still be changing or else your > site will die before your client gets a chance to see all you can offer. > It's a matter of evolution and adaptation, Darwin. ;-) > Agree with PJ here: More likely, you go live and the boss says "Can you make that look more like ...?" "Er, yes, but it totally stuffs the whole design..." Evolution was *not* carefully thought out - that would be Intelligent Design <spit/> -- Peter Ford phone: 01580 893333 Developer fax: 01580 893399 Justcroft International Ltd., Staplehurst, Kent