Posted by cwdjrxyz on 07/24/06 19:41

Michael Laplante wrote:
> Beat my head in frustration for two days re-designing a site then discovered
> the problem was that IE doesn't default to a border of 0 -- one of my stored
> resource articles made mention of this fact and that you have to explicitly
> set borders to 0 in IE.
>
> The problem is that I don't design often enough and I tend to forget these
> little things when I start again. So I want to come up with a quick 'aide
> memoire' for design that I can refer to before I start a design and this is
> where I'm asking for help. What are your top three tips, tricks or hacks for
> designing? I'll compile these into a one page "refresher" for me that I can
> use before I start a new design. Can you help?

I find that it is often little mistakes and typos that can waste the
most time for me. People often tend to read what they thought they
wrote, not what actually is there. Frequent use of the W3C html and css
validators often will show up such errors before you waste a lot of
time.

I write much more Javascript than php. Much php looks much like
Javascript - just enough like it to get you into trouble. When writing
php I try to think "I am writing php, not Javascript at the end of each
statement. For example all php statements must be closed with ";" while
this is optional in some cases for Javascript. Solution: get in the
habit of closing all Javascript statements with ";" also. Also
differences in how variables are declared in Javascript and php can
cause trouble if you do not pay strict attention to what you are doing.

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