Re: formatting - design question

Peter Ford wrote: > 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/> > Chuckle, chuckle. ;-) -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php