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[Rezwan]

amcnea wrote: Hence, it may take good understand of the HTML and the CSS in it’s entirety in order to parse it.

I have more difficulty with design decisions, not with code. E.g., it’s harder for me to decide on colors, backgrounds, box shapes, font sizes, border thickness, spacing, etc. Once those decisions are made and someone has coded them, cutting and pasting the relevant piece of code is not a problem.

Also, I have trouble with graphics. But once the graphic is designed, calling it up in the css and html isn’t a problem. A lot of graphics people take for granted, like the rounded corners of boxes.

But once all the graphic assets are there, and someone has developed the code that describes the design, really, putting the code where it belongs isn’t too hard.

Furthermore, the same CSS is going to apply to various different places in the HTML, which may be modified by other CSS dependent on structure, and other files might override previous CSS. Anyways, trying to figure all that out will be annoying at best.

Yes, this was my other developer friend’s complaint about Joomla. It meant you couldn’t really modify the template much. You just had to choose it and stick with it.

Also, a large portion of the CSS will be completely irrelevant to what is being displayed because Joomla is created to be heavily modifiable.

True enough. Like in the code snippets above, there was no banner, and the em tags were empty. But this gets us back to modularity. We only need the bits of code we use. From glancing at the code, it looked pretty well documented, so you could pull out the pieces you need.

I like doing this a la cart.

Perhaps if you just load in all of the joomla CSS files, then maybe everything will just work magically.

Certainly, if you loaded all the code, it should all logically (not magically) work. It’d be overkill, but not magic.

Then there will be options from the CMS which will be fed into things like the CSS and the Javascript. For instance the blue thing which rotates is set to change once every 10 secs, however, this is just an option in Joomla which can be changed to anything or turned off. Within the joomla system, these options are easy to find and modify, but I have no clue how deeply these options are hidden in the Javascript files which are sent to the end user.

Yes, one would need to know where those controls are.

About that blue rotating thing. As mentioned, I preferred the one on your other site with a picture that changed when you click one of the six shown links. So you can see the relationship between image and action.

Before I forget, I noticed on a previous post your EE script started off with:

This will probably need to be changed to what joomla uses, which is:

Yes, I’m all strict. Perhaps transitional is the way to go. A kinder, more forgiving approach.