Reply To: Fantastic news.

[Rezwan]

But what I can’t do is take pieces and ignore the site, because I don’t know what that means.

I didn’t mean to ignore the site. Rather, as you conceive of a site, make sure that the pieces are to some extent independent and can fit together with some tolerance. Don’t go for designs that are too interlocking and high maintenance to avoid this:

Precision is merely a consequence of understanding the code and understand how browser differentiate the displaying of that code. For example, under certain conditions it is common for IE to render with a 1px offset difference from how Firefox and Webkit renders. Now, if you are trying to make a straight line, this offset can kill the page design. 1px can be the difference between a page looking beautiful and a page looking like crap.

Yeah, so design some handsome pieces that all match/coordinate, but don’t rely on having to be exactly touching each other in certain ways. Let them all be on the site, do their job, look stunning together, but not have to be so dependent on each other. A loose, friendly affiliation, kind of like the members of this organization. Sloshing room.

But yes, it definitely has to pull together as a site. I just want the whole site to be deconstructible into pieces.

Then again, if it’s just up in the header, I suppose we could accommodate some tricky graphics that have to line up and lock in. What we do below shouldn’t affect that.