[Klug-general] easy/fast web design

[Mike Evans]

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On 30/03/10 12:05, James Morris wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My partner is attempting to create a website using RvSitebuilder. She's
> getting quite cross already. It looks to me like a PITA to use (i've
> always preferred using a text editor).

It's a little way away - but my friend Matt, who works for Yahoo has 
offered to do us a talk on YUI (Yahoo User Interface) and Web Front End 
Programming.  This will inevitably involve Javascript, which will make 
me feel slightly queasy.  It's currently planned for the next session at 
the end of April.

My limited experience of YUI has been good:  Those clever guys (and yes 
they are clever) have done all the frustrating work to make stuff that 
works the same in all the common browsers.  Even if you are not a fan of 
Yahoo (I'm not particularly) this is such a blessing given the usual 
amount of screaming involved in getting anything but the most simple web 
page to work everywhere.  You include the appropriate CSS and sometimes 
script files, which can either be copied to your site or accessed from 
Yahoo's super-fast-right-on-the-internet-backbone servers.  (I go for 
the former as I hate relying on anything external.) Just their 'reset' 
module is worth using on it's own as it turns off all the default things 
in browsers so that all the other CSS you add has a common starting point.

Matt is responsible for the UK and Europe front pages on Yahoo so he's 
probably as close to an expert as using this stuff for real as there is. 
  If you have any ground you'd really like covered then drop me a line 
off-list and I'll put together a list of requests which will help him 
structure his talk.

Mike

Sorry Yahoo!  I can't bear the exclamation mark so I've saved them all 
for the end !!!!!