Russ and David once did a 2-day CSS course in Canberra. It was great, particularly in showing a standards compliant way of how css works and what it can do. Your designers could benefit from such a course. IMHO, it would open their eyes to how things are done in 21st century online world. IMHO, it would also let them know that just as you need a good designer to make things look pretty, you need a good web developer to adapt and turn that design into html/css (not to make it look exactly like the design did). M
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Susie Gardner-Brown Sent: Tue 14/11/2006 3:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS resources for Graphic designers? I guess I'm not explaining myself properly. I don't expect Graphic Designers to produce code. I expect to do that myself (as a web developer) In the past (in table-based layout days), the graphic designer on the team would either provide me with a Photoshop layout file that I would cut up, or would sometimes cut it up themselves. I would then build the site using tables, to make it look exactly like the Photoshop layout file. Since I've started building sites using CSS as opposed to tables, I've taken the photoshop layered file, cut it up as necessary, built a stylesheet and placed the graphics (banners, navigation etc) using divs etc. But, (speaking generally) the graphic designers: - are still designing navigation using non-standard fonts etc. - don't necessarily know what can be done with CSS on a design level etc. - When they export a stylesheet to create styles, they use styles that you have to apply to each paragraph. I guess it's something created automatically by something like Imageready. I'm mostly wanting to explain/show what can be done using CSS instead of actual images, so their design takes advantage of what CSS has to offer, and doesn't have to use graphic images to create the effect they want to achieve. Dunno if that's any clearer ... <grin> - susie ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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