Steve Finkelstein wrote:
I was curious how do you folks who strictly do development and not
designing, strategically work with a designer in this fashion? Do you
have a skeleton you follow or preload some existing templates and then
code around that? If there's even a book which focuses on such
concepts, I'd be more than happy to purchase and read it.
This is just my opinion. I have only ever worked with a limited set of
professional designers...Your mileage may vary.
Having worked with a designer I very much respect for almost two years
now, my only real suggestion is to make sure you write very
standards-compliant xhtml. Lay out your pages so that they flow from top
to bottom without any formatting whatsoever (think extreme simplicity).
Output data naturally - tabular data in tables, paragraphs in p tags,
headings in hN tags, inputs with labels, etc. Conceptually different
parts can be split into div tags too. (Like <div id="header">Page
Title</div>, <div id="content">Page data</div> etc.)
It should look something like:
Global Header
* Page 1 link
* Page 2 link
* Page 3 link
* Page 4 link
Page Data
Here's why:
- A good web designer can work absolute magic with CSS - they can turn a
well written xhtml page into a beautiful page that looks consistent
across all modern browsers. (I'm lucky enough to work day-to-day with an
absolute design wizard.)
- It's very accessible - even simple mobile browsers screen readers and
will have no problems with it.
- If you don't like the work the designer has done, you can hire another
and plug-in different style sheets.
Depending on the calibre of designer, I think that integration may be a
bit of a headache in the end though.
jon
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