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  • Inline Styles Christian Puffer Christian Puffer Tuesday, June 30 2009 01:18 Code & Design

    I was reading this on twitter this morning: 10-html-tag-crimes-you-really-shouldnt-commitAnd it's all well and good, but this was my response: This is a great list, and I certainly wouldn't argue any of these points. It's great to be reminded of them.But, yeah, let's be honest, when dealing with large CMS sites with frequently updated content, inline styles/css can be a useful tool/cheat. I'm not talking about your average wordpress blog, but multi-tiered sites with complex css structures controlling various elements. Not all of us have the support staff to have someone comb submitted content to make sure it is semantically pure.I think the most realistic thing we can do as developers/designers is build a semantically sound foundation that is able to support a certain degree of html slop from authors. And sometimes, indeed, you just need to style something quick.Now I'm off to look at cleaning up a few sites. ;-)

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  • Changes to the Joomla Admin Backend? Christian Puffer Christian Puffer Tuesday, June 30 2009 01:17 Code & Design

    http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/830-an-accessible-backend-preparation.html

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The web development process in nutshell

Friday, March 20 2009 - C. Puffer

Blogs - Development Blog

I was just sending an email to a friend for whom I'm going to be bartering for updating her web site. I was explaining the process and timeline of getting a small site off the ground, and I came up with this:

  • Phase 1: Design or adapt a 'front-end' design, while simultaneously setting up the website architecture. + Beginning to populate the framework with content.
  • Phase 2: Figuring out why the design doesn't work like you expect it to.
That about sums it up.