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Hmm, what is 'CSS Design' exactly? This guy seems to be conflating design, which has principles that apply to newspapers, magazines, billboards, interactive ki
by greyhat 18y ago
Hmm, what is 'CSS Design' exactly?
This guy seems to be conflating design, which has principles that apply to newspapers, magazines, billboards, interactive kiosks, and web sites, with CSS, one specific technology for implementing your website's style.
No one should be worried about specific technical flaws in IE6's implementation of CSS at the same time they are worrying about how much white space they want to use in their design, whether to use a 2 or 3 column layout.
This article might have some good information here or there, but I'm not sure it is conceptually laid out well. This leads it to read more like "10 steps to a sweet web page!!!" than an introduction to design for the web.
My somewhat unoriginal advice:
Read about design, decide how you want your page to look based on its contents, sketch it out, pick some colors, and THEN worry about translating it to XHTML/CSS.
- astine 18y agoAny artist in any medium will tell you that trying to abstract design from the materials you will work with is a bad idea. It's been recognized since the time of the Greeks that your materials will dictate largely what comes out and if you don't take an organic approach, your design will feel forced. The is true for HTML/CSS as for stone and paint. Knowing what your tags are capable of is as important as knowing what you wan them to do.
- greyhat 18y agoI agree with you partly, but if everyone did this, where would the innovation in CSS be? A lot of people that have done new things and pushed the envelope in CSS seem to have brought skills from the print design world... With judicious use of images and some other techniques, almost anything can be done in CSS. It just shouldn't be the starting point for your visual design, imho.