On Mar 18, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Laurens Holst wrote: > I don’t know… In Backbase, there is one designer guy whose main IDE > is indeed photoshop and who makes the design for all graphics > (including the product’s UI looks, PDF documents, the website, and > their illustrations). However, he has basically nothing to do with > HTML or CSS (other than having a global view of what’s possible > with CSS and what’s not, because he’s been told so many times :)); > when he’s finished a design, the markup is then created by web > programmers who slice up the images and produce the code. This is the way Forum One works; however the markup is often created by junior programmers who aren't yet experienced enough with HTML+CSS to create table-free, semantic designs. The pressure for them to go the easy road is exacerbated when budgets get tight and the client is viewing the site in IE 6. Also, most designers I've worked with are not as well-informed as yours. They implicitly design things in their head based on their experience with table-based layout, rather than a design that is easy to render with semantic markup (e.g. uniform-height columns), even if they don't do the coding. By default, our CMS generates compliant, fairly semantic HTML, but implementation is always much messier in the real world of budgets and a limited supply of properly-trained-and-experienced programmers. I think you can safely assume that as long as shortcuts exist, they will be taken unless the "right" way is actually easier, or when the advantages are so compelling that people are willing to require it and pay the difference. -- Sandy Smith, Manager of Technical Development Forum One Communications, Inc. ssmith@forumone.com tel. 703-548-1855 x28 http://www.forumone.com/
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