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Soup to Nuts
I've written an article called "Soup to Nuts" for Issue three of Design in Flight, the PDF based magazine for graphic designers and web developers. Here's a quick excerpt from the DIF website. The gist of the article - how I go about making a CSS based website, start to finish.
There's lots of great info about making CSS based layouts both in print and on the web, but much of it is spread out, divided into tiny sub-topics, and somewhat hard to piece together. My goal was to write out a very hands-on, "how I do this" type article, aimed at those interested in learning from a top-down approach.
So I've created this page to serve as an announcement about the article, but also as a forum for readers (and myself) to post comments, corrections, and questions. Do you like to do things differently, or have some suggestions? Let us know about it.
Comments
1. January 7, 2005 06:24 PM
2. January 7, 2005 06:28 PM
3. January 7, 2005 09:19 PM
Kisan Bhat Posted…
Great article. I will have to rethink about CSS after reading this article in Issue three of Design in Flight. Thanks
4. January 8, 2005 07:00 PM
studes Posted…
I also want to say thanks. I've just picked up things along the way, and this is a great one-stop shop -- a great overview of the process. I particularly appreciate the tip about PHP and "foldin".
5. January 11, 2005 01:45 PM
Rich Posted…
Just finished your article in Design in Flight and I think I love you. Well maybe not love, but I like ya a lot. Great work! Some things I knew, some things I didn't and a lot I wish I'd known a long time ago. Or last week for that matter. Thanks a lot!
6. January 11, 2005 01:52 PM
Nate Posted…
Kisan, studes, and Rich - thanks very much! I don't have anything clever to say, just grateful for the kind words.
7. January 17, 2005 11:24 AM
Nigel Posted…
Nate, your article was the reason I subscribed to DIF. I got some great workflow tips, e.g. the fold function, hierachically structuring the page etc. Very timely too as I was in the process of building my first pure css site. Can we expect more from you in future in DIF? What would be great is an analysis of a cool design by your designer and then the technical development. Thanks for the article and keep up the good work.
8. January 17, 2005 11:48 AM
Nate Posted…
Hi Nigel - thank you for taking the time to write, I'm glad the article was helpful. I definitely enjoyed writing the article, and will be doing more writing, either here as weblog posts, or for other stuff. The trick is to schedule in time for it, so it might be a little while before I can crank out something of that depth. Your idea of writing jointly with my business partner Arturo is a good one, he definitely brings a lot of value through his understanding of the concepts. Best of luck with your first CSS site!
9. January 18, 2005 12:55 PM
Adam Michela Posted…
This was my favorite article from this months issue. Others were an equally great read, but this actually had an immediate impact on my development process.
10. August 17, 2005 04:14 PM
Ryan Posted…
Nate,
Thanks for the awesome article. I've been hashing out my own "best practices" over the last three or four projects that I've been working on but this, oh this, is truly a gem. I too, printed it out and will have it nearby during my next project.
Two great tools for testing are the Aardvark extension for Firefox and the Web Developer's Toolbar for Firefox. [It sounds like] they do very similar things to Show Specific Elements - except they play nice for us PC folks. Again, thanks for the rockin' article. I've gotta go subscribe to the DiF and WG RSS feeds now. Cheers!
11. October 11, 2005 10:27 AM
joe Posted…
Nice article; is tehre a demo of the finished site somewhere? I could not find any link.
12. October 11, 2005 11:04 AM
Nate Posted…
Joe, yeah it changed quite a bit after the article was published, which is why I didn't link it directly (it's more of an inspiration for the article rather than literal results of article), but you can find it here http://medicalwrites.com/
Aaron Posted…
I just finished your article and would like to say thank you very much.
Having all of these great tips in one place helps. I will definitely have a copy at my desk for my next project.