Comments on: New Competencies for Theme Designers

By: adam

adam — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:35:52 +0000

I suppose there's a possibility of getting more styling than you bargained for, but overall, a sidebar generally has width and float, so it would seem like a good thing (I don't know how the kids are coding their themes these days).

By: that girl again

that girl again — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:18:12 +0000

I suppose the issue with .right is that you can’t rule out the possiblility that inexperienced theme designers have been using it for their sidebars…

By: Root

Root — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:36:27 +0000

I have started to use *global classes*. Global classes are a generic set of classes which are always available for that particular type of work. So a php non CMS site always has the same set. That way in an environment where production is distributed the html guys can rely on certain things being in the CSS. Commercially I think that is important. The reason is that at our place I try and keep the development of the html separate from authoring of the CSS. That way they don’t impede each other. But you need to know that the two ends of the tunnel are actually going to meet in the middle. The reverse is also true. We use other types of class sparingly. Where poss we just use semantic mark up and descendant selectors.

By: adam

adam — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:12:06 +0000

Heh, in this case broken = unwritten. I should probably just remove those links.

By: Root

Root — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:40:29 +0000

I didn’t say I liked Joomla.
And your design studio site is borked in FF on linux. No SEO pricing / results.
Thought you would appreciate that.