Re: [WSG] Structuring CSS

2008-06-10 Thread Anton Babushkin
Interesting to hear. I will do a formal test on our network sometime when I get the chance and report on my findings as well. Out of curiosity, it wasn't an actual physical stop watch was it? Its far less error prone to use something like the Net tab of Firebug or an external plugin like Charles

Re: [WSG] Structuring CSS

2008-06-10 Thread Peter Ottery
re - Out of curiosity, it wasn't an actual physical stop watch was it? of course not - it was an abacus! ;-) nah in all seriousness, it was before the time of firebug, and around the time of the birth of this mailing list. yes it was literally a stopwatch - which was enough for me at the time. i

Re: [WSG] Structuring CSS

2008-06-10 Thread James Jeffery
There really needs to be a consistent method of sturucturing CSS personally. If i cram everything onto one file I feel like the structure of the website is not really effective and editing becomes a task. Most the time I will break up the CSS file into a few sections as standard and use Yahoo!'s

Re: [WSG] Structuring CSS

2008-06-10 Thread Michael Persson
James, It depends on the site size and the structure. If you have a huge CSS file for navigation it is of course good to separate it from other styles. I always make form.css for contact pages and form pages, but in general i keep style.css for the rest ad my sites are not so huge,

[WSG] Structuring CSS

2008-06-09 Thread James Jeffery
Lets have it. How are you guys structuring your CSS files? I have been having a think about this over the last few days. My research attempts have failed because most the articles i came across were outdated - so i tend not to trust them. One method i thought about (not sure if it's been coined)

Re: [WSG] Structuring CSS

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Ottery
re - How are you guys structuring your CSS files? for me, multiple css files for different parts of the page is harder to manage. I'm pretty old school keep everything within the 1 css file (within reason). this also means 1 http request which is good. exceptions are if you had a massive admin

Re: [WSG] Structuring CSS

2008-06-09 Thread Matt Fellows
Now that's a question to spark debate! Without leaning one way or another there are a number of different approaches you might try. Have you considered CSS frameworks such as Blueprint CSS[1] or the 960 grid system[2]? These approaches help to standardize your CSS by providing the basic page

RE: [WSG] Structuring CSS

2008-06-09 Thread Jens-Uwe Korff
How are you guys structuring your CSS files? I am currently in the process of restructuring our CSS. The approach I'm looking into is as follows: 1) use Eric Meyer's reset CSS to create a common base 2) use Blueprint's grid.css for the grid layer 3) use a component CSS layer to a) give

RE: [WSG] Structuring CSS

2008-06-09 Thread Web Marketing Experts - Nick Bell
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Re: [WSG] Structuring CSS

2008-06-09 Thread Anton Babushkin
The way I structure my CSS is very much like you said - taking the Software Development principles of Object-Oriented programming, and is pretty much inline with what everyone else has said. I generally break my CSS up to the following categories: - reset.css : Reset all browser defaults.

Re: [WSG] Structuring CSS

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Ottery
Anton wrote... - In regards to I'm guessing this sort of structuring comes at a cost because a number of requests need to be made to the server. this is generally untrue. In principle this is exactly how download accelerators work. They split a large file into smaller segments and sent