On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Larry Clapp larry@theclapp.org wrote:
Hi, list,
I am developing my first web app of any kind. I've no experience with other web app frameworks (like RoR or what have you). I am working with a friend, who knows Dreamweaver and other fairly high level web-design tools, but can't code at all. On the other hand, I don't know web-design at all, using tools or not, so we're pretty complementary.
So I'm seeking guidance on how I can continue to develop using Hunchentoot and cl-who, and yet integrate machine-generated html or css or what have you from Dreamweaver or other tools?
As I understand it, this is a known difficulty that other teams and tool designers have faced, and if I'd ever worked with any other teams or tools then it might be a no-brainer, but given my lack of experience in this respect I'm not even sure what to Google to find answers for myself.
I'd appreciate any advice, links, pointers, etc, that users of Hunchentoot and/or cl-who could provide. Thanks!
It would be fairly simple to write an XSLT stylesheet that converts the output of Dreamweaver (or whatever) into cl-who style forms. You take those forms, manually strip out the "Lorum Ipsum ...." content and replace it with forms that generate the actual data.
I haven't actually done this myself (not fortunate enough to know a graphics person to help me) but given your constraints, that's how I'd probably do it.
Another approach would be to turn the process on it's head. Have cl-who generate a static page with no style information at all and give that to the graphics guy. He then has to figure out the correct CSS incantations to make the page look equally pretty on all browsers.
-- Andy