unraveled Sans Boxiness
Some designs get more boxy with time, some get less boxy. unraveled became the latter. Besides the most obvious differences, everything else remains unchanged.
I updated the design simply by modifying a few lines of CSS. Because this is so easy to do, I’ve been making these types of changes quite frequently over the past year, usually whenever I’ve felt like it. For me, it’s just fun. For e-commerce, small design changes can have a serious impact on the bottom line. Many e-commerce websites understand this and some smart designers are cashing in on it. Eventually, when more e-commerce websites use XHTML and CSS, it will be much easier for them to make small design changes. Smart designers will always be needed, but instead of using meaningless tables with other bed and breakfast markup to present the changes, they’ll just modify a few lines of CSS.
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I wish more designers were open to learning about how CSS works in detail. I manage a web team and get frustrated at web designers who don’t try to understand the cost associated with implementing and maintaining their designs.
my 2cents
a concerned web developer on 25 Feb 04