On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Cito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Here are some more CSS tips:
> http://blog.roninapp.com/2008/09/22/8-tips-for-scaling-css-development/

That sounds pretty much as what needs to happen.
Not sure if there are any "asset managers" to merge css files for tg to use?

As far as what like liked and what were my biggest problems with css
that came with default tg:

1. I'm not a designer and I don't know what is going on with css code
just by looking at it. This means I need a base and I modify it one by
one to get where I need to be. So deleting default css file is not an
option as it would put me weeks behind the schedule. So as long as tg
css is easy to extend I will be using it.
2.  What I like about current css is structure. Top banner (I replaced
it with my banner), replaced footer content with my links, replaced
paragraphs content with my paragraphs, and replaced side menu with
some help links to my specific project.  This was nice and easy. I
didn't have to do a lot and  I have a working page. I've been given a
lot of good feedback on the coloring "good job on keeping it modern
yet neutral."
3. Then problems came when some parts needed to be moved. After I
found a cascading menu that worked on all browsers FF,IE5,6,7,Safari I
need to put it right below the banner. This really didn't work with
some of the menus as div were messing it up. When I finally added the
menu then flash didn't show up in right place. I looked at the code
found the flash part but there were no comments on which line moves it
up,down,or makes it wide,slim,,etc (needed to experiment with them for
a day to make it at the proper place and size). So more comments in
the code would be great. (this line makes it 100px wide, this lines
moves it here, this lines makes the background black,..this lines
makes it float....etc)
4. One issue with datagrid is that sometimes it is wider then the
screen. Which means it sticks outside of the page. I guess this would
be a case for non static width, not sure. The "Get started menu" is
hard to move when datagrid overlays it. I guess this could be fixed if
there were comments saying where am I suppose to make it smaller and
move it up.
5. Footer was a little hard to replace as it had some wording not in
index and master kid file. Finding which part is where was a little
time consuming as I couldn't just get rid of it as it was broken down
too much.
6. With the above changes I could create any page (forms ,datagrid,
etc and it worked for all of them).

Thats pretty much it. building tgapp (1 day) trying to get the site
look ok by modifying css (4 days). So if we could make this process
easier that would be great. (comments in css file, splitting the code
in common-layout.css, styles.css, header.css and footer.css would help
in my case)


Thanks,
Lucas

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