How to Architect Your CSS

digital-web.com — Great breakdown of how to actually architect CSS, not just create it. "Gone are the days of creating a single CSS file and dropping in rules as needed. As we build new sites, it is necessary to spend time planning how to organize and structure CSS." Sep 28, 2006 View in Crawl 4

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tehsexy Sep 29, 2006

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lol

ikean Sep 29, 2006

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Hm, interesting and noted... and according to my dictionary true as well. Although you were dugg down I dugg you up one. I wouldn't have caught that myself, and I'm certainly not an advocate of "grammar nazis" (IMO language should be coherent and intellectual, but remain flexible and adaptive), but I believe it's an accurate observation and I'll be watching for that in the future. Maybe it will be accepted as a verb one day? I'd bet it's being used quite a bit now days.The "Thank you." at the end though is definitely far too pretentious

mrbluejello Sep 29, 2006

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Wow, sorry I didn't consult "dictionary.com", who cited itself as the language authority lol. If you look at the page they quote 4 sources, and "dictionary.com" is the only one that acknowledges the bastardized "verbification" of this word. If you check the etymology of the word, you see this is a Greek word, originating around 1555. Just because some loons in the last 10 years have popularized the corruption of this word, does not make it proper and acceptable English.The fact that "architecting" is in the same tome as "Phat" (thanks Oxford!), comes as no surpirse, when you consider the source.

bmachine Sep 29, 2006

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Good read. But if your CSS is so complex that it requires such a level of organization, it may mean that there is something wrong with the design. The first step should be to try to simplify.

heffer2k02 Sep 29, 2006

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Why not just split your CSS out into many small files, stored in a directory hierarchy that reflects that of your site. If your worried about the "so many includes" you could include a "CSS file" that just points to a server side script/method that accumulates your many CSS files into one, and sends that back to the client (could be done cleanly and easily with rails routes for example). If your worried about the hit that will have on the server, your server could cache the CSS tree and serve out the segments dependant on the route requested.

heffer2k02 Sep 29, 2006

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heffer2k02 Sep 29, 2006

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"Just because some loons in the last 10 years have popularized the corruption of this word, does not make it proper and acceptable English."Yes is does you pedentic anal retentive. Language is constantly evolving, and the use of architect as a verb is hardly new. My god, when you start defending yourself with greek sources from 1555 you know your digging yourself in deeper and grabbing at straws.Thank you.

dnabeast Sep 29, 2006

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Now that the header is on the front page of digg I guess it'll get entered into the lexicon anyway. Funny old thing language ;)

mrbluejello Sep 30, 2006

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heffer2k02,Your language "litmus test" would add the following to our lexicon:"u" - you"r" - are"b4" - before"l8r" - laterJust because people use language, does not make it right.