Hi all.

 

I was just wondering when it comes to the coding and styling of a which your working on how you approach it. I know there isn't really a right or wrong answer and is down to personal/experience choice but was just interested on other designer/coders approach.

 

For example.... a 5 page site.

 

Do you input all HTML on all 5 pages then jump onto the CSS and style the site? Or do you sort the HTML for the first page then style that...then second page, style that and so on?

 

Looking forward to you response.

 

James

Personally, (in my short time experience) i have laid out a basic html structure of header content area(s) and then the footer.

 

I then go to the CSS side and make all of these parts very bright / totally different colours. They normally stay these colours until the webpage is nearly finished actually.

 

As for a 5page site, i dont use different pages (or havent needed to yet) i use scroll to anchor points and have a long page.

 

I then do the content & its css bit by bit.

Edited January 5, 201214 yr by Lovelock

Hey lovelock, thanks for the response. I'm really new to all this, hardly much experience. I have a similar approach, I do the same with the different colours, helps when I'm playing around with padding and margins mainly.

It's an interesting question and one in which I think I differ to most people.

 

No matter how complex a site is, I'm just not happy unless the background, main container and header (and possibly footer) are almost close to finished looking. Only then am I ready to start the 'proper work' of the actual content, which is all nicely contained within a fluffy looking website. After this I tend to switch between html (or php, CMS entry or whatever), CSS and javascript, whatever needs doing logically.

I use a (here's-one-I-made-earlier) boilerplate as a starting point for all projects. I then alter that to get the basic layout and add all the global styles to the CSS. Then I save that as a basic template for all the following pages. In the CSS I add page or section specific styles separately - that way you can minimise and organise all the CSS more effectively. I also keep colour separated too to make sure all the colour values are consistent throughout the site.

Some interesting stuff, thanks for the responses.

 

As I'm not in the profession...(but hopefully one day that will change) it's interesting to see professional and experienced people's approach to starting out a site.