Hi there, > what are you guys using as a base css file to start a site with common hacks > and what not?
These days I invariably kick off with the global whitespace reset (hi Andrew!) http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/10/19/global-ws-reset/ ...and some controlled whitespace settings. If I know the base font I'll set that and some default colours, then set a % text size in the body {}, to avoid any font-size setting smaller than 1em. I set the font early since different fonts have such different alphabet lengths and apparent sizes. If I expect a lot of edits/versions I'll add a comment at the start with a name/description, version number and date. That does mean I need to remember to increment the version later, but if you have that mindset it really isn't hard. After that it depends on the job, really. I've found the whitespace reset notably reduces the number of hacks you need to use, though (assuming of course that you use % and EM for all size settings). cheers, h -- --- <http://www.200ok.com.au/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
