Re: formatting - design question

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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. ;-)

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