Re: [WSG] CSS resources for Graphic designers?

[Nick Cowie]

It is all dependant on how willing your graphic designer is to let go of certain features of their design. (ie font choice on menu items).

It works a lot easier if you have website guidelines and/or corporate style guide. (I had four - State Government website guidelines, State Government style guide [print orientated], agency specific website guidelines and separate agency style guide.

A couple of years back did a major agency wide redesign,  had the choice between two inhouse print graphic designers, one who had built websites a few years early, ie creating table based layouts by cutting up psds and one with no experience in web. Went with the designer with no web experience, because it was easier to teach from scratch than make them relearn everything.

They knew the style guides (which fixed most font choices, including menus), in addition they knew from the start, font size had to be relative and page width elastic.

Spent a day at CSS Zen Garden showing what can be done (and to get some inspiration), the designer went away and produced a couple of illustrator files that got converted into HTML and CSS very easily.


Nick Cowie
http://nickcowie.com
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