If a page is composed entirely of a 'cut up' Photoshop image, what value is CSS?
If the page is created and managed as a photoshop document, is there any useful presentation feature offered by CSS? There is no font control (sizing, face, etc.) there is no color control, there is no (real) hope of liquid layout, there is no alternate stylesheet. If marketing decides to 'tweak' the page, you're going back to the original photoshop document. I don't see how a site made of pages like this is much different than an interconnected PDF that pops up in your browser. Our webmaster draws pictures in photoshop and gets approval for pages using those images, then he'll create a FrontPage mockup - which is essentially the photoshop document polluted with Frontpage markup. The multipage mess is then handed over to me to "make functional" by adding infrastructure that should have been built first. Am I wrong to believe this is not a 'best practice' way to go about web design? (sorry for the wandering rant) ...Anyone have a favorite URL for 'best practice' web design? On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:58:36 +0300 "Nick Wilsdon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul wrote: > >> If we want to produce good clean markup using CSS we have the basically > rewrite much of the output from the design team. This seems like double > work, Considering this is more a tool issue than the fault of the designers. > What alternatives are there for this? > > > This tool doesn't exist, sorry Paul. It just sounds like you need a web > designer. You're essentially using Adobe ImageReady to 'make' your web sites > at the moment. Once they finally launch a 'CSS web designer tool' then a lot > of us are out of work! *g > > I have 2 people here (and myself) hand coding up the Photoshop layouts from > the designers - I couldn't imagine doing it any other way. > > There are tools which make working in CSS easier - TopStyle by Nick Bradbury > is one that really helps me. You can also pick up layouts at glish.com and > bluerobot.com which will save your team time. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
