[css-d] Large Website ... using multiple @import's

2005-08-31 Thread Ron Kauffman
Hi list,

A question re: css organisation.

The project is a very large publishing site - thinking of 
implementing/organising our new css in either a traditional 1/2 sheets way 
or by using basic and custom sheets where the custom sheets define all the 
@imports for a section/page.

Using a custom sheet defining the components to be used does introduce an 
extra layer of presentation i.e. editing the @import list; but it does 
depart from monolithic css organisation.

Has anyone any experience using this type of organisation - if we do not use 
it we risk an extremely large css file - perhaps 10k lines. Also if we 
proceed we introduce more http requests and bandwidth usage.. 

Any advice appreciated, Ronald..
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Re: [css-d] Large Website ... using multiple @import's

2005-08-31 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater

Ron Kauffman wrote:

The project is a very large publishing site - thinking of 
implementing/organising our new css in either a traditional 1/2 sheets way 
or by using basic and custom sheets where the custom sheets define all the 
@imports for a section/page.


Using a custom sheet defining the components to be used does introduce an 
extra layer of presentation i.e. editing the @import list; but it does 
depart from monolithic css organisation.


Has anyone any experience using this type of organisation - if we do not use 
it we risk an extremely large css file - perhaps 10k lines. Also if we 
proceed we introduce more http requests and bandwidth usage.. 
 



Hi Ronald,

This question comes up about once a month on the list, and the answer is 
basically always it's up to you.  Organize your style sheets in a way 
that makes sense to you and is maintainable by your team, or whoever 
might inherit the site, in the future.


Zoe

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Zoe M. Gillenwater
Design Specialist
UNC Highway Safety Research Center
http://www.hsrc.unc.edu

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