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 and then format it in my CSS using ID >>> reference: #homepage .classname { >>> col

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. >

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 and then format it in my CSS using ID >> reference: #homepage .classname { >> color: blue; >> } >> >> This way you can use a default format fo

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: [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 on

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-05 Thread Peter Ford
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 keep changing things throughou

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-04 Thread PJ
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 keep changing things throughout a >>> site. >>>

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

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-04 Thread PJ
tedd wrote: > 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 and then format it in my CSS using ID >>> reference: >>> #homepage .classname { >>>color: blue; >>> } >>> >>> This wa

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 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

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 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)

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 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 in no time :) I w

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-04 Thread Shawn McKenzie
Andrew Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, PJ 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 simplifyi

Re: [PHP] formatting - design question

2009-06-04 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:54 PM, PJ 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 certainly speeding >