On 21/12/13 15:07, Matthew Ngaha wrote:
My question is, How do you guys or designers in general go about creating a site.
Most of my personal websites are so trivial that I just hand craft everything in vim. If I had to do something bigger where looks were important I'd probably go with a simple word processor like Libre/OpenOffice anmd then hand tweak the html and css as needed. At work we did much bigger and more complex sites. For those we had a team of graphics designers who developed the html and css files using a standard web design tool (DreamWeaver I think) and some company based rules to fit our design. The developers then worked against a template system using whatever web tools they were working with: ASP.Net, JSP, WebLogic, OracleAppServer etc. Oddly, I've never worked on anything between those extremes. Its either been a tiny site for a few hundred hits per day or a huge site expecting millions of hits per day.
do you guys find designing a site from scratch with html/css fun... or is it so tedious that you just go with an existing template?
I only once used a template and hated it so much I redid it by hand. I don't consider html/css fun but I don't consider it any more of a chore than writing a requirements spec or test spec or architecture/design document. They are necessary evils on any project.
I was told people don't design sites with manual html/css anymore as they use many tools that can generate web pages without having to type all that code.
I suspect that's true, most sites are built using tools like Dreamweaver or even MS FrontPage or a web tool like WordPress.
html5/css3 beyond a basic level in conjunction with django, or are there easier better options.
You really need to know html and css if you are building modern web UIs. That's because most good modern web sites use a lot of client side(browser) scripting, usually using JQuery. JQuery requires that you really understand how html tags and css styles work. So you may get out of creating the bulk of the code but you still need to understand the detail of what the tool produces. More so today that, say, 10 years ago. Finally, I'd really aim for xhtml rather than html since it's easier to parse and not too much extra work to produce. (htmltidy can convert to xhtml for you if you prefer) -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
