Hi all: I'm fairly new to the CSS game and have been playing with the CSS tool, Stylemaster, which is pretty easy to use and has been a great help to me in learning how to layout a CSS web site.
What I'm wondering though, is now that a large number of web producers/designers are using CSS for all positioning and style, eliminating tables, frames and other messy code. Are designers still designing full site templates in Illustrator, then porting them over to Photoshop to tweak the graphics, exporting Fireworks for slicing and saving to .gif and .jpg/png, then placing those images using CSS positioning. Or, are they just designing the full site in CSS, borders and all, creating graphics after the fact and inserting them where needed? What is the theory behind designing with CSS. I know everyone does it differently, but I want to find some kind of guide to help me know where and how to start. Should I design my layout in Illustrator as we've all probably done before, or should I just do away with that and layout my site just on paper and then just go to work in CSS? What do you think? Where are there resources on how to start "thinking" about designing a web site. Not the actual coding of it. Of course, there are tons of books on HTML/XHTML, CSS, and all that, but I'm talking more of design theory. How wide should columns be? What is the standard sixe, 1024x768 or 800 x 600? How wide and tall should your headers be? How tall should your logo be in the top left corner? Conceptual things of that nature. Can anyone help with links to a good design theory website or book. Thanks! -- Sincerely, Anthony P. Zeoli Founder Netmix.com 496 Court Street, Apt 3 Brooklyn, NY 11231 Tel: 718-858-7876 Mob: 917-705-4700 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.netmix.com AIM & MSN: djtonyz Yahoo: anthonyzeoli ICQ: 251999694 ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
