HAML and SASS are a means to an end, not a panacea. Both tools will allow you to rapidly develop HTML scaffolding and generate stylesheets for that HTML. However, that is largely where these tools begin/end and Rails/StaticMatic/Ruby pick up. Ruby/Rails handle the logic and actual "application" part of the site, whereas HAML and SASS just make the design aspect painless.
Also: Forget making sites picture-perfect across all browsers. You can get by with Firefox and Chrome/Safari matching up fairly well with Opera being decent and MSIE being dead-last and often times completely wrong. Design for your audience and do the best you can with the rest. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:57 AM, suman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I can program in almost all the languages and have primarily built > back-ends for many websites. These days I also do a respectable amount > of HTML and JS. > > However, I am terrible at CSS. I don't understand it as well as I > should. It confuses me and the fact that it doesn't work the same > everywhere even pisses me more. All I want to do is write websites > that look presentable and can be used on a decent number of browsers. > Most of these websites will be either internal or will be used by a > small set of people. The biggest complaint I have with CSS is that I > don't understand layouts and Divs. All I understand are panels and > adding widgets to those panels. > > Recently, most people like me have fled to the GWT world where they > can build a web interface using a notion familar to them(panels and > widgets). However, I don't want to write a website in Java, just > because GWT makes my life easier. > > I have come here to see if anyone in the sass/haml community has > written/want to write/help me write a layer on top of sass and haml, > that would let me express everything in a panel/widget world view like > GWT. Personally, this is the biggest bottleneck before I can write a > website end to end. > > TIA, > -S- > > PS: Since you have already figured, how ignorant I am in this area, > please enlighten me if this is a bad idea or if there is something I > really missed. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Haml" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <haml%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. > > -- Nathan DeGruchy http://degruchy.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Haml" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en.
