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On Tuesday 26 September 2006 19:16, Matt Lee wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 06:18:10PM +0100, Michael Mortimore wrote:
> > or don't bother with any of the eye-candy? I'm sure that
>
> But yeah, it's all down to your audience. If you think design is
> 'eye-candy' you'd be mistaken - it's about presentation appropriate to a
> task or audience.
I've found when working in companies that its rarely done for the intended
audience - most of the effort seems to be done to please the marketing dept
who have to be seen to use every toy going!
>
> It's possible to produce attractive websites that work well in all the four
> main rendering engines (IE Windows, Opera, Gecko and Safari/KHTML) without
> needing to resort to hacks.
>
> First thing first, make sure you include your CSS files as follows:-
>
> <style type="text/css" media="screen">
>
> @import url("/foo.css");
>
> </style>
>
> Of course, before writing *any* CSS, you be making sure your website is
> marked up correctly, in a semantic fashion, with logical page flow and
> valid markup.
Hear Hear
Theres an extension to firefox that allows you to modify the css on the fly -
one of the most useful toys I've ever found!
Tom te to te tom
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