How do they make the damn M&M's thread
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Okay, the WTF is me now. I've been in a cryogenic camera for the recent years, or so it seems. I kind of know how photoshop layouts were sliced in þe olden days, when all the decor was images, carefu;ly fitted. And boy oh boy, I would suck at it, pathetically.
But now we have advanced CSS, fonts are loadable, and most of it is, well, programming now, with images left to be images proper. And now I see folks doing pretty imageless psd to html+css in a snap, result being pixel perfect when the window sizes are the same, and relative distances and sizes are right all the time. All in a few hours.
My question is, how do they do it now? What tools are there to check if measurements are right? Generally, how to suck less at it?
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I'm not sure what you're asking.
If you're asking how I develop CSS, my strategy is generally:
- Avoid it at all costs
- If 1) is impossible, just guess-and-check using the browser's debug tools (which allow trying out CSS in real-time)
I don't know if it's possible to "learn" CSS. I'm not even 100% sure CSS can be considered deterministic, frankly.
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CSS in a nutshell:
Does it work now?
No.
Does it work now?
No.
Does it work now?
Yes!
Ok, now just to align this one last elem... FUCK!3 hours later
Ok, good, now let's test in FireF... Ok, where's my rope, I need to hang someone.
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+:infinity:
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I know CSS fairly well. I don't know graphics much, and how the process of making a PSD into HTML looks like in 2015.
You see, many shops still want you to "slice" it.
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3 hours later
remind me come pay day that i owe you a beer (or local equiv) for your work on socksite.
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People still do PSD layouts first?
Why?
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Marketing can work photoshop but has no understanding of web. That's why.
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I keep my web designs fairly simple, that way I don't spend much time hacking CSS. Then again, I'm not a web designer, and my designs look simple too.
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I'm not a web designer
I'm not either, but because I seem to know enough, that role has been foisted onto me at my job.
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Marketing can work photoshop but has no understanding of web. That's why.
Then marketing can sketch it out on a sheet of paper, or anything to wireframe it and then turn it over to people who know WTF they are doing. ;)
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Paper isn't pretty. They want a fully polished design they can hand over and have it made interactive.
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Paper isn't pretty.
No, but it works for just basic layout. Then you can skip the entire PS step and just go straight to making it interactive. Start making it do things. Get it rendering in a browser.
The PS step always seemed pointless to me.
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Remember: the people who care the most about the layout and prettiness (marketing) also has 0 ability to make it interactive. How are they meant to communicate their vision?
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Ok, good, now let's test in FireF... Ok, where's my rope, I need to hang someone.
I have almost no idea what CSS is, but I know that feeling all too well...
Marketing can work photoshop but has no understanding of web. That's why.
QFT
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How are they meant to communicate their vision?
Their "vision" is usually rubbish.
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So? They still want to communicate it. The same way toddlers really want to show off their crayon drawings.
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That is just about the best analogy a person could come up with, though I would have given you more humor points if it had been a picture made by smearing poop on the wall.
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he gets it right the first time.
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You've never pulled a shade like that up and had it not catch at the top and come straight back down?
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You've never pulled a shade like that up and had it not catch at the top and come straight back down?
Pretty sure they're designed so this is highly likely just to troll people who try to use them.