For design and layout, I use a web designer.  :-)  I am profoundly not 
artistic.  That gives me the HTML and CSS.  Then I break that down into 
components in WebObjects using the Component Builder in WOLips.  Those 
components are then re-assembled into pages.  If you are making full pages in 
WO, you are doing it wrong.  :-)  Because of the component nature of the web 
UI, WYSIWYG editors are not really practical in development (e.g. it would be 
really hard to write one that would be useful).  I have found Xyle Scope 
(http://culturedcode.com/xyle/) useful for debugging and tweaking CSS.  A CSS 
framework like blueprint (http://www.blueprintcss.org/) can be very useful.  
Also have a look at Compass and Sass (http://compass-style.org/, 
http://sass-lang.com/).

Chuck



On May 6, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Kevin Spake wrote:

> What do you use to build the web interface for your WO apps? Eclipse? 
> DreamWeaver?  Is there any sort of agreed upon 'best practices' regarding 
> building complex UIs?
> 
> Kevin 

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