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Simple Organism
An interesting approach to a multi-use css file.
22 mar at 23:53 by Ed
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Okay, a few criticisms:
First, must the creator wrap absolutely EVERYTHING inside a division? It's utterly stupid and unsemantic. I can understand using a single or two divisions (though I don't agree with it), but just wrapping everything... why?
Second, there's absolutely no reason to, when writing PHP, enclosing variables in quotes just to enclose them. It's slower, it's uglier, it's harder on the server. What gives reason to do something like this? If you do it in the wrong places, it can even cause huge confusion (e.g. $my_instance isn't the same as "$my_instance") and in the worst case make something simply not function.
I'd point out more things, but I'm running out of characters. Damn it.
while I don't agree with Veracon on his arguements against the use of divs totally, I will agree with him here. you simply dont need all those div wrappers. you can easily assign those ids/classes directly to the child element in most of your cases.
you have an h1 and a ul (nav) wrapped in a div, when you could just assign the CSS to that markup.
Maybe you guys should contact him about that. It seems pretty basic for any person who is just learning css and php.
I know if all the semantics stuff and divitis as someone called it before was focused on. I would probably just go back to using tables.
It's nice to start people off slow then build them up. That's why I think this was a cool concept.
I sent him an email, and i agree with you Ed, we all start from this base, hell i just stopped doing it about 4 months ago. but i think once you introduce php into the picture you are, IMHO, a bit beyond a begginners phase, or should be. by the time you start templating you should have a firm grasp on basic sematic layout and at the very least have already gone through that "press every button" stage which i feel is where you are when you design like this code is laid out.
im not knocking the guy at all, just saying that at this stage he should, for lack of a better term, " know better"
Hey there,
Great comments guys, feel free to shoot them over to j@latenightrabbit.com and I'll post them right up. Trust me, no egos here. I've gotta say, David B, I didn't receive your email and this was a tiered approach. I based this on on a few audiences such as people with basic HTML skills, clients with a need for understanding and fun experimention.
I hope everyone understands my direction. I didn't want to confuse people but enlighten the visitors. Everyone knows talking shop or above a person's head doesn't get you anywhere. Dealing with clients and teaching at Columbia exposed that to me.
By the way, if you're bored and want to paint, here's another: http://www.latenightrabbit.com/painless-painting/
Please feel free to shoot over any comments in the future.
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