I’ve been trying to update the WordPress theme on my other blog and, to put it bluntly, it’s been a frigging nightmare.
I made some changes using CSS to create a 3 column layout. I added a contact me form to replace the current lame-ass printing of email address, tried to change some text sizes and generally spruce things up a bit.
Did any of that work? Did it fu… It all looked great in Firefox. It didn’t look too bad in Opera and it looked truly shocking in IE. I knew there were many cross-browser problems facing designers and JS devs but I didn’t realised that even totally simple things like laying out a form using CSS were a royal pain in the backside.
I’m sticking to the server-side.
There’s some great libraries like jQuery, Moo and Dojo out there that simplify and standardise Javascript development across the major browsers – I wish there was something similar for CSS, design and layout. I’m gonna have to dig around and see if there’s any tools for delivering basic CSS layouts that are cross-browser friendly as I’d really like to knock up the designs in my head rather than having to take free WP and CSS templates and try and modify them.
Dreamweaver is probably an option but that still feels like a dirty cop-out and, besides, I don’t have Windows.
Do you know of any good CSS/HTML design tools for Linux?
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