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- In Basic CakePHP markup for designers
- Renan Gonçalves wrote: Its quite simple to do. Just add float:left and set the width to the div.
- In Basic CakePHP markup for designers
- Jerry wrote: i need an example with CSS. I understand it's wrapped witha div tab but how do i create 2 columns
- In Basic CakePHP markup for designers
- Stefan wrote: Let's take for example this line: How do You describe this class in the css? Because there i...
- In Basic CakePHP markup for designers
- brian wrote: great article! I would love for someone to show the basic styling to create a 2-column form from...
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Title Basic CakePHP markup for designers
Written on Mon, Dec 15th 2008, 13:41 in Uncategorized
Viewed 7504 times, 2 CommentsThis article assumes you practice semantic markup and have a fairly good understanding of CSS. CakePHP does a number of things automatically that designers might not expect, which can cause confusion for designers and difficulty for developers in implementing markup. I hope to provide some general purpose information and guidelines to designing for a CakePHP site. I would like to make a couple quick notes first however. CakePHP is a very flexible platform where markup can be re-used very easily. The more you as a designer try to make reusable markup, the easier your developers life will be. One of the most important things that you can do is to avoid id's other than for top level wrappers such as columns. This allows the developer to change content to address shifting specifications without having to rewrite chunks of CSS in order to avoid Id conflicts in the generated markup. CakeP...