Thanks.

I think my own problems boil down to:

CSS: I'm not a graphic designer and have no skills/training in that
line. So I can see when something isn't right, but all I can do is try
tweaking things until it (hopefully) looks better. Presumably a graphic
designer would see that something was wrong and would know why, and
what to do to fix it.

Progressive enhancement: the tendency is always to imagine how the page
will look on the desktop screen, and it's just a matter of having the
self-discipline to force oneself to start off by imagining it on a
mobile phone. Plus - the vast majority of online examples start with
big screen and use media queries to modify down to small screen.
Modifying them (effectively "inverting" most of the CSS definitions) to
start with small screen and modify up to large ones is the mind-
boggling bit.


On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 00:55 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Peter Duffy said on Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:08:23 +0100
>
> > (The perennial problem with web development, for me, is CSS. The
> > complexity of v3 - especially the grid module - is just mind-
> > boggling.
> > (Having said that - grid layout is a massive improvement on
> > anything
> > preceding it.) Then there's the requirement these days to write
> > "responsive" sites - starting with something that works and looks
> > good
> > on a mobile phone, and then using "progressive enhancement" to work
> > up
> > towards big (normal?) displays. It's just so counter-intuitive.)
>
> The progressive enhancement is almost trivial. I'll explain it at the
> next GoLUG meeting. I'll try to put something about the grid stuff
> too.
> It can be challenging, but not that bad.
>
> CSS is the most beautiful technology I've ever seen, and it has
> pretty
> clear definitions. The problem is that nobody's teaching it right,
> and
> that nobody uses ALL its capabilities, because knowing all its
> capability would be a very heavy lift.
>
> Come to the next GoLUG meeting, and send me any questions beforehand.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
>
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