by Vernontnh » Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:12 am
Hi Jim:
I bet I've lost at least 100 non billable hours on this project over the last 3 months trying to deconstruct the labrinth of templates, includes, CSS...etc.
If you're starting with a template, it is very difficult to figure which file, the template, the multiple includes or the CSS, or other CSS within an include, etc that is controlling things.
I think this is a major weakness for Shopsite, and i would recommend you consider providing some deconstructed code for those of us that can look at the functional part of the code that controls the actual database, etc. and build our own CSS, not having it all interpursed and connected together.
Something like:
Here's the code you need to get all your reg pages functioning together:
CODE
Here's a header include. We didn't put some of the functioning code here, and some in the actual template file, because we knew that would be hard to understand. Instead, we just have the reference to css and graphics in this file.Plain and simple.
Here's the footer include--same situation as above. All the code that needs to work in the templates is together in the template file. not placed here and there.
You want a background color, a ruled box around your page content, Fine. Go for it, but we've left all that out and just given you the fuctioning code you need so that it works with our database, processing, etc.
I bet a lot of people would be grateful for this.
And by the way, the other resource that provides code, is fine, for those who understand shopsite code and can string it all together, but for most designers, that's impossible.