tedd wrote: > At 2:08 PM -0400 6/4/09, PJ wrote: >> Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: >>> >From my experience I tend to use a difference ID for the body tag, >>> for >>> instance <body id='homepage'> and then format it in my CSS using ID >>> reference: >>> #homepage .classname { >>> color: blue; >>> } >>> >>> This way you can use a default format for all the pages and create >>> minor (or >>> major) changes in the theme in no time :) >>> >>> I would also suggest to attach the CSS filename reference at the >>> <head> tag >>> the update time of the file, so that the browser will automatically >>> update >>> the cache of the CSS whenever you decide to edit it. >>> >>> Just my 2 cents ;) >>> >> Oh, I think it's worth a lot more than that. >> I just installed IE 8 just to have it for verification. It's no better >> than IE 6. I never use them personally. >> But how do you produce interesting web pages to look well on both >> without making stupid compromises. What looks well on Firefox, looks >> like MSshit on IE. > > The way you do it is to keep it simple. > > If you use a different style sheet for every page, then not only does > that cause more load times, but it confuses the Hell out of things, in > my opinion. > > 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. :-) -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php