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In Basic CakePHP markup for designers
sebastian wrote: Hi, i am new in cakephp i want to avoid the text "CakePHP: the rapid development php...
In Basic CakePHP markup for designers
Bram wrote: Thanks for the writeup. It's hard to understand when the example code snippets are unreadable...
In Basic CakePHP markup for designers
Cake wrote: Yes what is missing on this site is somekind of beginner guide, for totally beginners in the...
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

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  • Basic CakePHP markup for designers

    December 15 2008 | |

    This 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...

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