Re: How are you handling html templates created in other apps?
Re: How are you handling html templates created in other apps?
- Subject: Re: How are you handling html templates created in other apps?
- From: "Jerry W. Walker" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:18:34 -0500
Hi, Kevin,
On Feb 16, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Kevin Windham wrote:
On Feb 15, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Kevin Windham wrote:
I have a template someone designed for me using Fireworks/
Dreamweaver. If I cut and paste the HTML into WOBuilder, a lot of
stuff is broken. There are rollover buttons using various
javascripts with preload stuff, and various other things that are
just messed up, and I'm not sure where to look for info on how to
handle this sort of thing. I could try and recreate the layout
from scratch using the graphics included in the template, but I
think that will not be a good way to work all the time.
Is there any primer out there on how to handle this issue?
Thanks for the replies guys. I will take a look at Eclipse and
WOLips when I get a chance, but I think for now that I will use
static images with absolute URLs and try to change the html as
little as possible. There is a lot of wonky html involved, but
most of it is tool generated and I don't really have time to go and
clean it up by hand.
As an aside, is there any html design tool that will actually setup
layouts using CSS rather than tables?
Thanks,
Kevin
First, I know of no such design tool, but if you find one, I'd love
to hear about it.
Second, although your decision may be the correct one in your
circumstances, I always consider the strong possibility that in six
months I will be asked to make major modifications to any page I'm
given today to implement. I've found, in general, that my users are a
lot more sanguine about giving me the necessary time to implement the
initial page well, then they are about giving me the time needed to
slog through bad code or bad HTML to make changes later.
That's why I go through the effort I do to make the page's structure
understandable, maintainable and as robust as possible. YMMV.
In any case, yours is not an easy task right now, so all the best.
Regards,
Jerry
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__ Jerry W. Walker,
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