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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 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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In professional development different people make code for web applications and HTML for views. First are programmers and second are HTML markup developer with basic programming skills, but with good skills of Photoshop/etc.
I have asked some of HTML developers: did they try Haml? I showed it to them and they replied that it's an awful tool.
For Whom is this tool? For HTML developers? Or just for programmers who have to make HTML on their own without HTML developers?
What is the advantage of using it for HTML developers?
The Wikipedia entry for Haml does a good job of explaining the problems that Haml tries to solve. In short, it allows for more readable, less verbose markup by enforcing indentation, reducing repetition, etc.
It's probably more useful for a programmer who's using it inside of a framework like Rails, which will automatically take care of converting the Haml markup to HTML in the context of a web application.
A designer working with HTML and Photoshop might not find it worth the extra complexity it would add to their workflow.
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Just signed up to Wordpress today and am already having several issues. I'm a front end developer, so I don't know a lot of php (I know some very basics). I tired to figure out how to add my own themes to Wordpress (basically I heard that you just code website normally with html, css and javascript like you usually would and then upload files to Wordpress). However I can't find this option anywhere, only changes I'm able to make are in GUI editor of current themes available in Wordpress. Can anyone explain how it works?
The general answer is no. Wordpress is built with PHP and content is served to the user using PHP.
Now, if you are just starting out and don't want to learn PHP here's my suggestion.
Find a theme as close to what you want your site to look like.
Then you can just modify the HTML, CSS and JS that supports the theme.
If you're not making drastic changes it should be fairly simple.
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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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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.