Phreaddee
9th February 11, 08:49 AM
Hi.
Anyone who has read any of my posts would know that I absolutely hate IE (of any form) and that alone I could dribble on about for hours, or my total disgust about using tables for layout, or absolutely positioned elements, or tables and AP elements within IE, GRR! but no today I want to gripe about something much more hurtful - Slice and dice (PSD to HTML), or more to the point people who WANT to be web developers who click that lovely button in imageready/photoshop/fireworks THEN post on sites "why doesn't my webpage work?"
Because it is an image you fool!
When will people get it? slice and dice takes us back to the dark ages of tables (although they cleverly disguise it as AP elements). writing compliant simple easy to understand markup should be the aim of every new designer out there, and taking the easy route and not learning how to "make" your design with CSS is simply poor form.
a few simple rules.
write your own code, and I mean learn what you are writing, and you'll be able to find the problems. open up notepad and write a page. can you do it? its not that hard.
separate style from markup. this rule is so basic I just cannot understand why people cannot grasp it.
AP is the lazy way - unless it needs to be stuck somewhere it doesnt want to go.
leave the tables to the 1990's (unless your tabulating data)
but above all DONT SLICE AND DICE and wonder why html/css outputted from a program doesnt make logical sense.
Anyone who has read any of my posts would know that I absolutely hate IE (of any form) and that alone I could dribble on about for hours, or my total disgust about using tables for layout, or absolutely positioned elements, or tables and AP elements within IE, GRR! but no today I want to gripe about something much more hurtful - Slice and dice (PSD to HTML), or more to the point people who WANT to be web developers who click that lovely button in imageready/photoshop/fireworks THEN post on sites "why doesn't my webpage work?"
Because it is an image you fool!
When will people get it? slice and dice takes us back to the dark ages of tables (although they cleverly disguise it as AP elements). writing compliant simple easy to understand markup should be the aim of every new designer out there, and taking the easy route and not learning how to "make" your design with CSS is simply poor form.
a few simple rules.
write your own code, and I mean learn what you are writing, and you'll be able to find the problems. open up notepad and write a page. can you do it? its not that hard.
separate style from markup. this rule is so basic I just cannot understand why people cannot grasp it.
AP is the lazy way - unless it needs to be stuck somewhere it doesnt want to go.
leave the tables to the 1990's (unless your tabulating data)
but above all DONT SLICE AND DICE and wonder why html/css outputted from a program doesnt make logical sense.