Back in the game.

DireEmblem · 20 Dec 2008 at 14:45

Right,

I'm gonna get back in the game...

Not done any dev work for a while, but I have done a few side Java servlets for people.

With regards to websites, is it still very much doodle your site in say photoshop, and then cut up/build with css/html...

Looking to give the CSS side of netbeans a whirl, but any better software out there people use?

I'll post again here once i'm happy with my work.

knowledge123 · 20 Dec 2008 at 14:54

DireEmblem said:
With regards to websites, is it still very much doodle your site in say photoshop, and then cut up/build with css/html...

Very much so! I use a Mac to do all my site coding, I use CSSEdit to do all the css, and it is a piece of cake.

The way our company works is that we get a design from the designer next door, and in FireWorks I cut it into slices to use on the site.

DireEmblem said:
I'll post again here once i'm happy with my work.

Looking forward to it!

DireEmblem · 20 Dec 2008 at 15:04

hmm never heard of CSSEdit, will give it a look...

knowledge123 · 20 Dec 2008 at 15:06

DireEmblem said:
hmm never heard of CSSEdit, will give it a look...

Sorry, I should have linked to it. Very swish program, and very easy to beak/group your code up into sections.

Also highly useful is it's 'milestone' functionality, enabling you to set rollback points when you do a (big) change, it's saved my bum various times

swinnie · 20 Dec 2008 at 15:25

If you use Windows, use Notepad++

Tripnologist · 20 Dec 2008 at 16:57

I actually quite like Dreamweaver CS4 for hand coding. Say you open your index file, it automatically opens all the files that are called in (css, js, etc.) into tabs as well. The 'snippet's section alone is the biggest reason I use it. So much easier to drop in certain elements I use frequently.

Pho · 20 Dec 2008 at 18:59

knowledge123 said:
Also highly useful is it's 'milestone' functionality, enabling you to set rollback points when you do a (big) change, it's saved my bum various times

Have you considered using Subversion (SVN) or another similar version control system to do that? You can effectively 'milestone' changes to the whole site and rollback as needed.

It makes syncing changes between several machines easier too (you don't have to copy the whole thing over every time).

knowledge123 · 20 Dec 2008 at 19:16

Pho said:
Have you considered using Subversion (SVN) or another similar version control system to do that? You can effectively 'milestone' changes to the whole site and rollback as needed.

It makes syncing changes between several machines easier too (you don't have to copy the whole thing over every time).

Yep, I do

Subversive, iirc (inside MyEclipse). I like using it inside the css because it's another layer of security when doing significant changes.

Sic · 20 Dec 2008 at 19:52

Gurgle · 27 Dec 2008 at 17:02

Firebug can be your best friend for realtime feedback when tweaking and adjusting CSS. I can't believe I managed in the past without it.