Thanks Taz and everyone else! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Taz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:48 AM Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] OT: web design
> Rex, > > Unfortunately its a fact of this business that clients will always change > things over and over, especially in terms of design. This is because they > often don't really know what they want until they see it. > > In terms of overall site design... don't start building HTML until you have > a design signed off by the client. Scamp out your visuals in Photoshop, > Freehand or Flash. Show the client the look of every type of page the site > is likely to have... homepage, a text page, and any other special pages like > popups. Then when the client is happy with the design, get them to sign > something that says: This is what we're going to build... blah blah blah. > > After the HTML has been built there will still be minor amends to things > like fonts, colours, etc. The solution is to design the technical part of > your site with scalability in mind. Instead of using <font> tags everywhere, > create a stylesheet that is included in every template... if the client > decides to change the colour of the headings, edit the stylesheet and it'll > change every heading in the site. > > If you're building a site in CF, use Application.cfm for setting the > parameters of commonly used objects... table colours for example... > > <!--- application.cfm ---> > <cfset Request.TableColour = '0066CC'> > > <!--- my display template ---> > <table bgcolour="#<cfoutput>#Request.TableColour#</cfoutput>"> > > Navigation is also something that can change. In a dynamic CF site, you may > want to build the navigation bar (or whatever) from the database. But if the > site structure doesn't exist in the database, just create one template for > the navigation bar and use > > <cfinclude template="dsp_my_navigation_bar.cfm"> > > in each template. You can do a similar thing in SHTML, by using a #include. > > Another useful factor is your choice of editing software. If you're not > using Dreamweaver I reccomend you invest in a copy. This will really help > you with things like site structure (move or rename a template and all links > are updated automatically, etc.), creation of stylesheets, and will display > all of your included templates (cfinclude or #include). > > There are books out there that will help. Check the Northern UK CFUG site. > We have a deal set up with one of the publishers where our members get 25% > off, and we're in the middle of putting together a second deal with another > publisher. Nukcfg is at www.cfug.org.uk, but I think everyone knows that by > now since I bang on about it all the time. > > Enough of my crap for now. > Cheers > Taz > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
