As I complete yet another WordPress website, I realize the more I do, the more complex the process becomes. (Check it out here.) There is something to be said for “ignorance is bliss”! But when it has to be right, and has to be done “now”, the stress levels start to rise. And that learning curve just gets steeper and steeper.
Editing the CSS with a child theme of StudioPress Genesis is an ongoing project, it’s still not entirely clear to me how developers do it. So many styles… and so much potential for conflicts. Sometimes it “should” work, but doesn’t and the likely culprit has everything to do with the “Cascading” part of “CSS”. I read recently that learning CSS is way up there on the scale of difficulty in programming languages. The syntax is easy, but the logic is endlessly complex.
The Firefox Firebug browser plug-in is a Godsend. What would we do without it? A quick and easy way to see the effects of CSS and that changes that can be done. Then back into Dreamweaver to edit the ‘real’ CSS file. It also allowes us to the the CSS properties of other websites, and yes, they too must struggle, if the commented-out code is anything to go by!
Which reminds me, can’t stress enough the need to add comments to any code files. They act not only as a reminder for our own changes, but also for any hapless designer who might have to work with the file at a later time!
Tango