jerry.domenick wrote:
If you were to reverse engineer a site design - So say, I saw a site that I would like to recreate the layout of for practice. Would the 'best practice' be to break that design out into the 960 grid, envision it in cells (columns/rows), and then rebuild from top to bottom in RSD?
If you were to reverse engineer a site design - So say, I saw a site that I would like to recreate the layout of for practice. Would the 'best practice' be to break that design out into the 960 grid, envision it in cells (columns/rows), and then rebuild from top to bottom in RSD?
Exactly.
What I do is open the site in a browser, move it to one of my other screens, have RSD on my main screen (the one in front of me) and start with the grid, then I move to the first row, then the second, and when I finish the Index page, I add the breakpoints. Then, I duplicate the index page and make all the other pages with it. I am currently working on a new article that will help walk you through the process I described above. It is a work in progress and will be done hopefully this week or next.
When you encounter things that require custom HTML, Java, or PHP, do you just put placeholders in there and then replace with code after the fact?
No, you would use an HTML Element for this. You can place any HTML, PHP, or JavaScript in an HTML Element and be on your way. You can use placeholders, but you would need to go back and add an HTML Element in the end, so why waste the time?
