redoing my site

kevin316 · 07-23-2009, 06:59 PM

I have been reading a DWCS4 book and see that I did some of the things on my site the hard way. I am going to work on it and redo it top to bottom.

A couple of questions before I start though.

HTML or XHTML, what would you recommend?

Should I use spry to build my menus? I see that there are other ways and they all have their pros.

How about Fireworks. Is it a good idea to do some of the work in there and import it into DW? Drop menus, page layout, headers and footers....

On a typical CSS site (say 25 pages) how many CSS rules would you expect to end up with? I can see having a pile of them if I use them like it suggested.

I'm sure there will be more but that will get me started.

Thanks

Izzmo · 07-28-2009, 08:05 AM

Well, it all depends. I personally use just a regular text pad editor (http://www.editplus.com), but it's up to you. A lot of new editors just tell you what to do, but I personally think you gain more from knowing it and become more efficient this way too.

As far as what type of HTML standard to use, I would XHTML for the sheer fact it is recommended, the newest and most up to date, and it is more standard across websites now a days as well. You will find it's not too much different than regular HTML 4.

For CSS rules, it's totally up to you. It depends on how elaborate you want your coloring scheme to be really. If you are only going to use a couple colors, then you use the rules in various blocks around your site. So, I can't really tell you how many you will have as it's dependent on the amount of content and various blocks on each page.

Just like any new person starting web design, I would create a website, and if you run into problems, try and work your way through it and then ask for help. It's always better for yourself to see if you can get through it first!

kieransimkin · 08-01-2009, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by kevin316

On a typical CSS site (say 25 pages) how many CSS rules would you expect to end up with? I can see having a pile of them if I use them like it suggested.

To give you a vague idea - my site's fairly small (but quite complex) and my CSS file is currently 1966 lines long (it's a 28k file).

nic · 08-03-2009, 04:03 AM

Use HTML 4.01 transitional DTD if you don't have the time or XHTML if you do.
CSS rules are like OOP programming, if you can manage the relationships consistancy.

Izzmo · 08-03-2009, 08:16 AM

"CSS rules are like OOP programming"

.. uhh what? Not really.