no 14 isn't bad - just another thought too as to what Ronald mentioned.. I did this way on a few pages - but currently have all my pages done now by a cfinclude - I design the header and footer - the header has an incomplete table ending in a <td> and footer picks up that in complete by starting wtih a </td> - you simply include those files on includes and it cuts the time off from messing with sending the url variables, looks neater int eh URL location and some search engines may like it better since they sometimes don't like or ignore anything past the ?
Also- I personally would user Fireworks - I happen to like their splicing and code much better than Image Ready's So with your <cfinclude template="header.cfm"> Content from Image Ready or Firewords or Hand spliced all wrapped in one table. <cfinclude template="footer.cfm"> NOTE - USE CSS - you can tweak the site from 1 file if you set the standard.. just include that in your header.cfm I wouldn't be surprised if you cut this down to 8 to 10 as that is what it takes me to do something like this. Good luck jay miller Ronald West wrote: > I actually did this a few times and I think 14 hours start to finish is not > bad. A few things that I took advantage of: > > In Adobe I used the Image Ready tool to draw guides around my images and > then create HTML with the sliced guide sections. (Saves a lot of time > converting layout design to html). > > Usually you have two main sections of a website (especially simple sites) > the navigation and content areas. I would create a template with the HTML > generated by IR. Then just send a query string along with each of the > sections of the website for instance if you had three sections (home, > content1, content 2) I would code the links all to go to index.cfm?stage=#x# > (the template from IR). Each different stage would just include the content > inside the template where needed. > > I hope that makes sense. It just gives you a way to control content > separate from layout. That way if the client wanted to change either, you > didn't chase the changes around. > > Just something to think of. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Douglas Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 9:21 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: OT: how long should this take(Opinions) > > I am working a full time tele-commute job for a company, and was > wondering how long doing the following should take. It is currently > taking me about 14 hours and I was wondering if anyone considers this > too long. > > 1. The site design is layed out in photoshop by our designer and I cut > and create the new images for the site from these image files. > > 2. Most sites I am working on have approx 10 - 15 pages that need this > layout applied and their are about 3 or 4 different layouts per site. > > 3. They have an ASP shopping cart that must be applied to each page, > Copy and paste stuff... > > You can view one of the sites here > > Douglas Brown > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
