FW5: Using CSS To The Max

Now that the dust has settled and a new year is now upon us I've been looking over some of my past projects from the last few years and have been looking closely specifically at the design approach I took into each of them. I've been doing web-design for about 5 years now and I started out doing simple table-based designs that were very graphic heavy and I've quickly progressed into CSS-based designs. Along the way I hadn't used much CSS beyond styling text and felt that was as far as it'd go. Well, I was wrong.

One of my struggles in my web-design journey was finding a way to utilize anything and everything. Sort of a maxi-mist I'd like to say. I wanted to be able to utilize CSS to tailor my designs where if I had moved on from a project I could easily load up the files and feel like I could pick up where I left off. However in Freeway I felt like I couldn't do that because often my projects were passed onto other people who made their own changes and the way I had my projects setup would only allow me to work on them. The teeter-totter might bounce on this one for pro's and con's but in the work-place you need to be prepared for someone else.

Well how does one prepare for someone else? One place to start is with your CSS files. Today the word CSS is common place and more and more people understand how it works. Designers are able to change an entire site design through CSS without touching any of the HTML and by having properly setup CSS documents you can impress your clients with these professional features. With that said I've done my first screen-cast of the year on how to create external style-sheets properly using Freeway 5 Pro combined with CSSEdit (or you can use your favorite CSS editor.)

This screen-cast requires that you have installed the Action bundle found at (http://actionsforge.com/actions/index/20)

The screencast can be viewed at FreewayCast.com:

http://freewaycast.com/screencasts/view/31-using-css-to-the-max

Comments are welcome!

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