[Bese-devel] Templating

[Waldo Rubinstein]

Exactly. I try (as hard as it is for me) to stay away from tables. I  
try to visualize the pretty end-result and use div's as needed. But  
for the most part, what Peter says is the right way (IMHO).

- Waldo

On Jan 13, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Peter Scott wrote:

> On 1/13/06, Evrim ULU <evrim at core.gen.tr> wrote:
>> Thanks for your answer, it was very enlightening. I want to ask some
>> specific question about "your way". Do you form up html pages  
>> using only
>> *div*'s? I mean, you do not try to form up a layout but just put
>> seperate content into different div's so that afterwards, designer  
>> can
>> lay them out quickly via configuring style's of distinct classes?
>
> Not necessarily divs. Paragraphs should be in <p> tags, lists should
> be written as <ol> or <ul> lists depending on whether or not they are
> ordered, divs should represent logical divisions of the page, and
> everything should be liberally sprinkled with class and id attributes
> that make sense. The key point is that the structure of the
> information should be encoded in HTML, not the presentation---and
> there should be enough hooks for presentation to be easily added with
> CSS.
>
> Take a look at the CSS Zen Garden <http://www.csszengarden.com/> for a
> compelling demonstration of what a good designer can do with CSS to
> change the appearance and layout of nicely written HTML. Or look some
> more at the example Waldo posted; that was amazing.
>
> -Peter