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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I just got a job developing a site in French. Is there anything I should do or do differently that I wouldn't do if I were coding an English site?
There are a few typographic specialties in French that a well-designed HTML page should handle somehow, such as special spacing rules around punctuation characters. They are somewhat tricky to handle with just HTML and CSS. See my page HTML authoring in French.
I don't think you have anything to worry about with regards design / look n feel.
You'll have a lot to worry about with regards content though.
Date formatting
Currency formats
Thousand separator and other stuff
I'm assuming you aren't saddled with the task of working on the content as well.
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I have to design some HTML emails for my work. It seem obvious that everybody use tables and inline CSS for this. I would use plain text if I would have the choice, but it's not possible in this case.
As a front end developer who know a bit about web standards I'm pretty scary and horrified when I look at some HTML emails: table presentations and inline CSS are enough to demonstrate that this will be a horrible headache to design and maintain.
Do you have experiences with this? What arguments could be valuable to advocate plain text? What are the risks of using standard-maintainable-pretty HTML and CSS and not the horrible-common-way?
Some useful links for better understanding
http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-code-html-emails/
http://blog.mailchimp.com/background-images-and-css-in-html-email/
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Hey guys we want to create a informational type site for a very precise domain of knowledge, we want it to be in wiki like form. Whereby I mean the informational for each entity of knowledge is created by the users, and it works like wikipedia in that sense. Are there are web libraries we can use for a out of the box solution. WE don't want to spend much time programming this.
Thanks alot :)
Wikipedia is based on the open source Mediawiki system.
It's easy to use and install, but not very friendly for complex administration (especially regarding rights). And the editor is fine for engineers, not for everybody.
For other solutions, I suggest you google for "wiki" : that's the generic term describing this kind of system. Or "CMS" for something a little wider.
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I am working in rails, and a looking for some resources to design visually pleasing HTML forms. I can write the CSS, so even examples would be great.
Any recommendations?
There are many resources out there, you can just google for well looking forms or something like this.
There are also javascript libraries which makes customized selects/checkboxes etc -for example a project called uniform - check it out, you might like it. It provides you tools to customize it.
You can try Gravity Forms for WordPress then you never need to hand code the html and it inserts unique id's and matching classes in the HTML. This means the sky is the limit when it comes to styling your form.
If you are not using WordPress, here is a nice tutorial for designing form layouts.
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I've read this quote somewhere:
"Good programmers write good code.
Great programmers steal great code"
What is the difference between "good" and "great"? Great is better than good?
And to be honest... I don't understand this quote...
PS: maybe the title is not explicit and my English not correct, please correct it to be proper English, thanks a lot!
Great programmers know that their brand-new code will likely never be as good as something that has been around for a while, presumably battle-tested in a number of different situations.
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Is there some sort of HTML designer (WYSIWYG) available that allows me to draw the page and results with a page using DIVs / CSS and not TABLE design?
See drawter.com you can create layout in div css format.
MS Visual Web Developer Express, its free and allows full WYSIWYG and code view HTML/CSS editing for pure (X)HTML or ASP.Net sites.
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/#Visual_Studio_2010_Express_Downloads
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Express-2010/
I'm not entirely sure of what you are asking of but if you are looking for a wysiwyg(what you see is what you get) editor Adobe Dreamweaver is probably the best but it's rather expensive. There are ton's of free wysiwyg`s however I don't use them so I only know of Dreamweaver.