How do you deal with a mess in your CSS?
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on January 08, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Quick question. If you have multiple devs working on a few different screens, each monkeying with CSS, it takes very little time to end up with a huge mess of CSS. How do you deal with that? Do you:
- Delete the CSS and start again defining a common sheet?
- Try to optimize the CSS.
- Live with it.
- Don’t ever let dev’s touch CSS… they are dirty.
I ran into a 6000+ line CSS file for a dozen pages. They each have some heavy js UI going on but 6000 lines? An auto-optimizer cut it to 2200 or so pretty quickly but you can’t work with that file. I decided to start again, clean.
The upside is that I know the site mostly works without CSS and it exposed some odd decisions with some of the HTML (yay for nekkid web sites). The downside is that we may have to deal with browser bugs all over again—but then again we do not support IE 6. Only IE 7+, FF (latest), Safari (latest).
Feature request for Dreamweaver CS5 – something to optimize my CSS!
TODCon 2008: hot and humid web geek talk
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on June 11, 2008 at 08:20 AM
Another TODCon has come and gone in a haze of mojitos, great food, and great company. This year it was back in Orlando—my favorite place for it even though it was really hot and humid, I am getting bored with Las Vegas. This year had an amazing line-up of presentations which had little to do with ‘Adobe stuff’ and more to do with developing rich experiences on the web using whatever tools you use. Sure there was some from folks from Adobe showing off some things in CS4. Greg Rewis from Adobe gave a sneak peek of Flash CS4, there was a demo of Fireworks CS4 from Alan Musselman, and some discussion on Dreamweaver CS4.
Really looking forward to next years conference already as I think there are some changes afoot that will make it an even better community focused conference.
My two presentations were on AJAX strategy and Web Project Management. I have stuck both sets of slides up on slideshare but I don’t think they make much sense without the whole presentation ;)
Dreamweaver CS3 crashes with daylight savings time
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on November 03, 2007 at 10:54 PM
I can’t believe this but apparently if you are working some PHP or ASP files that have some HTML in them Dreamweaver CS3 is not going to like you. Adobe has a Tech Note on the issue and it only effects Windows users with CS3. I simply can’t imagine why that would do anything… but if you are swearing at Dreamweaver CS3 crashing after the time change, this is why.