Guest Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 Hi, I'm on the verge of comissioning a developer to create a site for me using OS-Commerce and several contributions for enhanced functionality. My developer is not very familiar with CSS layouts or XHTML validation etc, so has suggested that the site be built in standard, non-valid HTML with tabular layout, with a view to changing this in the future. Is this wise, or should I push for the fully accessible version at the start? What would you suggest? I, myself, have an excellent understanding of XHTML and CSS, but no PHP knowledge (I'm primarily an ASP developer) so is this something I could look at tweaking once the site is build, or would I be out of my depth? Any advice would be very much appreciated, thanks!
Guest Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 There is a contribution that is the catalog files that are XHTML validated, keeping them validated is not much of a problem. OSC runs off of tables and all the code is together. I have seen osC turned into a CSS based tableless layout in 30 minutes, with design the standard osC design implemented back into it, but I prefer to get my hands dirty in the code and know nothing about CSS so I didn't use it or keep it.
langers Posted February 18, 2006 Posted February 18, 2006 CSS Layout would be such a nice feature. I would think a full makeover would take a few days not 30 mins though. You would need to re-write all the pages, boxes, modules, classes and any other hard-coded "features". I am tempted to do my own osC css compliant fork when I get the time!
langers Posted February 18, 2006 Posted February 18, 2006 Oh, I notice that MS3 will be CSS actually. http://blogs.oscommerce.com/christian_lesc...owentry&eid=419 http://planet.oscommerce.com also have a look at http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...h,tableless+CSS
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