Re: How to share work between Java developers and HTML/CSS designers?

2008-12-09 Thread Nizam
We are in the process of buying a couple of Instantiations GWT Designer licenses. The WYSIWYG capability in their tool is not very flexible, though. We were not able to create any useful screens using the WYSIWYG feature alone. Had to do a lot of manual tweaking. On Dec 5, 9:16 am, rakesh wagh

Re: How to share work between Java developers and HTML/CSS designers?

2008-12-09 Thread Nizam
After I started this thread, a new article has come up on the GWT blog which talks about how the folks at studyblue.com approached the styling issue. Here is the link to the post: http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2008/12/gwt-no-need-to-shortchange-your-style.html On Dec 6, 10:02 am, Chii

Re: How to share work between Java developers and HTML/CSS designers?

2008-12-09 Thread olivier FRESSE
I fully agree with this way of working. We've been able to work with web designer with a very similar way of working. Our GWT components are very simple, and all the style is managed by CSS. I think that it's really important to keep in mind that GWT is not a Swing API in disguise :-) 2008/12/9

Re: How to share work between Java developers and HTML/CSS designers?

2008-12-04 Thread gregor
I would think Dreamweaver is more or less redundant in a GWT project, save perhaps for doing mock ups of widget layouts for demo, discussion. The traditional distinction between page designers and Java server programmers no longer exists really with GWT. You write GWT client code in Java, but you

Re: How to share work between Java developers and HTML/CSS designers?

2008-12-04 Thread rakesh wagh
Here are few things to consider: - Check the Instantiation Designer tool. Personally never used it beyond evaluation... but you and your team might have some luck with it. - Let the HTML team design the layout. Let the GWT team design the application and place the components as per the layout.

How to share work between Java developers and HTML/CSS designers?

2008-12-03 Thread Nizam
Are there any best practices in bringing together a multi-disciplinary team of Java developers and HTML/CSS designers in developing a commercial GWT application? Our Java guys cannot do CSS and our HTML/ CSS guys prefer working in DreamWeaver. I haven't seen any material that talks about the team