Re: [WSG] Global and page-specific style sheets

2007-03-14 Thread Jean-Jacques Halans
Have a look at the Adobe.com website, see what they are doing (talking about massive). I also tend to divide layout/fonts/colours into separate files. You could then have different colour templates, font templates (where font sizes change for example), etc. As css files can become big, I think

Re: [WSG] Global and page-specific style sheets

2007-03-13 Thread Kevin Futter
On 13/3/07 3:01 PM, Cole Kuryakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All ­ I¹ve got a site that has a fairly MASSIVE style sheet. It¹s quite long as the design spec dictates a number of different pages be layed-out differently. Accordingly, its becoming quite tedious to find certain style

RE: [WSG] Global and page-specific style sheets

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Bennett
One of the best things we did was to follow Doug Bowmans (webstock '06) suggestion to break up stylesheets into logical components and include them in one main file. Our 'styles.css' file now looks like this: - @import url(styles-contentTables.css); @import

Re: [WSG] Global and page-specific style sheets

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Williams
not seeing. Care to enlighten? From: Paul Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] Global and page-specific style sheets One of the best things we did was to follow Doug Bowmans (webstock '06) suggestion to break up stylesheets into logical components and include them in one main file. Our

RE: [WSG] Global and page-specific style sheets

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Bennett
Hi Chris, Basically if I'm looking to change something in the main nav, I look in mainnav.css, if I'm altering a header for a table in our content area, I look in contentTables.css etc, etc. The main file was 30K (!) before we started trimming it down and breaking up. Yes it's more http

Re: [WSG] Global and page-specific style sheets

2007-03-13 Thread John Faulds
Basically if I'm looking to change something in the main nav, I look in mainnav.css, if I'm altering a header for a table in our content area, I look in contentTables.css etc, etc. Or if you've got Firebug, right-click on an element, 'Inspect element' and it tells you exactly what line

RE: [WSG] Global and page-specific style sheets

2007-03-12 Thread Samuel Richardson
I don't have a problem with it, in fact the site I'm working on at the moment has 30 separate style sheets. However, remember that every style sheet will be a separate HTTP connection to retrieve it, so no matter how fast someone's connection is, they still have to make multiple HTTP requests to