Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-08 Thread PJ
Ford, Mike wrote: On 04 June 2009 19:09, PJ advised: Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: From my experience I tend to use a difference ID for the body tag, for instance body id='homepage' and then format it in my CSS using ID reference: #homepage .classname { color: blue;

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-05 Thread tedd
At 4:54 PM -0400 6/4/09, PJ wrote: tedd wrote: That's simply an example of not thinking things out before you write the code. First you figure out a layout, then you populate it. You don't pick a layout, populate it and then change the layout. If only it were that simple. When one

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-05 Thread tedd
At 10:23 AM +0100 6/5/09, Peter Ford wrote: PJ wrote: tedd wrote: First you figure out a layout, then you populate it. You don't pick a layout, populate it and then change the layout. If only it were that simple. When one is developing, one is always changing. And even when you're

RE: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-05 Thread Ford, Mike
On 04 June 2009 19:09, PJ advised: Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: From my experience I tend to use a difference ID for the body tag, for instance body id='homepage' and then format it in my CSS using ID reference: #homepage .classname { color: blue; } This way you can use a default format

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-05 Thread PJ
Peter Ford wrote: PJ wrote: tedd wrote: At 3:58 PM -0400 6/4/09, PJ wrote: tedd wrote: Style sheets are meant simplify things so decide on how you want things to look uniformly throughout your site and then stick with it. There's really no good reason to

[PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-04 Thread PJ
This may not be strictly php but I think is may be relevant. Were I to use a different css file for every page (that is slightly different), would that affect performance? It seems to me that might be a way of simplifying and certainly speeding up development (design-wise, anyway) when using css.

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-04 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: This may not be strictly php but I think is may be relevant. Were I to use a different css file for every page (that is slightly different), would that affect performance? It seems to me that might be a way of simplifying and

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-04 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Andrew Ballard wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: This may not be strictly php but I think is may be relevant. Were I to use a different css file for every page (that is slightly different), would that affect performance? It seems to me that might be a

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-04 Thread Nitsan Bin-Nun
From my experience I tend to use a difference ID for the body tag, for instance body id='homepage' and then format it in my CSS using ID reference: #homepage .classname { color: blue; } This way you can use a default format for all the pages and create minor (or major) changes in the theme

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-04 Thread PJ
Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: From my experience I tend to use a difference ID for the body tag, for instance body id='homepage' and then format it in my CSS using ID reference: #homepage .classname { color: blue; } This way you can use a default format for all the pages and create minor (or

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-04 Thread tedd
At 2:08 PM -0400 6/4/09, PJ wrote: Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: From my experience I tend to use a difference ID for the body tag, for instance body id='homepage' and then format it in my CSS using ID reference: #homepage .classname { color: blue; } This way you can use a default format

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-04 Thread tedd
At 3:58 PM -0400 6/4/09, PJ wrote: tedd wrote: Style sheets are meant simplify things so decide on how you want things to look uniformly throughout your site and then stick with it. There's really no good reason to keep changing things throughout a site. Cheers, tedd Maybe I'm just