I have always had an issue with RedDot and stylesheet handling. Whenever CSS changes have to be made, i generally receive changes made by front-end developers to static CSS files, which I then have to diff with the files on the RedDot server. This is a miserable diff because RedDot does all kinds of crazy things with white space, not to mention that all the images have to be replaced with placeholders (or you can put your images into the file system, but then they have to be repeated on the CMS and publishing targets).
On my next project I was planning on trying a new tactic: separate CMS and static sites. The gist of it is that all style sheet references would be full URLs referencing the static site, like: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://static.mysite.com/ mystyle.css" /> instead of re-creating all the style sheets in RedDot and inserting placeholders for them. This way, when the front end work is done, the changes get pushed to that static site and RedDot will start reading those styles in immediately, eliminating the need for long and error- prone updates. Anyway, I wanted to get some feedback from the community before I give it a try since it seems a little too good to be true and I feel like I might be missing something. Anyone have any thoughts? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=.
